Tag: Olympic Charter
THE 5-RING CIRCUS: Tokyo fires an OpCer director one day prior; IOC’s Coates “orders”...
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THE BIG PICTURE: Brisbane approved for 2032 Games; WHO chief rejects “zero cases” standard;...
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LANE ONE: IOC Athletes’ Forum endorses “10 Commandments” for Tokyo; Bach says Olympics is...
The International Olympic Committee’s 10th International Athletes’ Forum was held online on Wednesday and Thursday, with a focus on a variety of issues beyond...
LANE ONE: Bad news for anti-Olympic whiners: Tokyo Games will go on, and it...
The roller-coaster ride that has been the Games of the XXXII Olympiad just whipped through another barrel roll with not only an assurance that...
LANE ONE: China’s impact: 14% of all votes in IOC Athletes’ Commission survey of...
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Voting matters, and Chinese athletes did so early and often, helping to shape...
LANE ONE: IOC Athletes’ Commission recommends no protests on podium or ceremonies at Games;...
“Essentially, nothing really changes for athletes as far as field-of–play, ceremonies, podiums are concerned; everything remains the same as far as that angle is...
LANE ONE: Beijing 2022 is the IOC’s new challenge as it wrestles with changes...
/Updated/Last month’s opening day of the FIFA World Cup 2022 qualification matches in Europe’s Group G saw Norway win, as expected, at Gibraltar by...
LANE ONE: Now that the EOPAAA Commission is set, what will it do in...
The Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020 (EOPAAA: S. 2330) became law on 30 October last year and created the potentially...
THE BIG PICTURE: USOPC issues protest guidelines, but only for Olympic and Paralympic Trials...
The long-awaited regulations concerning acceptable forms of protest by American athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games ... have not yet been issued.
The U.S....
LANE ONE: Ex-IOC member Gosper thinks United Nations could help “in arbitrating whether the...
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LANE ONE: The top-10 stories of 2020, a year most of us would like...
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LANE ONE: Casey Wasserman eyes post-2028 run for Calif. Governor; explains LA28’s “secret sauce”...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Shiffrin stars in Courchevel, IOC’s Athletes’ Comm. chief brushes off USOPC;...
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LANE ONE: IOC’s “Olympic Summit” needles U.S. Congress and USOPC, pushes away from “gaming”;...
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LANE ONE: Bach heading to Tokyo next week; “very confident” on 2021; athletes OK...
“Given the toolbox we are putting together and given the latest and very recent developments with regard to rapid testing and vaccination, we are...
LANE ONE: Trump signs S. 2330 into law, so now what happens?
The legislative chapter of the Larry Nassar scandal has been completed with the signing of S. 2330, the “Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes...
LANE ONE: The IOC’s new balancing act: sometimes being “athlete-centered” isn’t enough
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THE BIG PICTURE: U.S. House passes S. 2330 in eight minutes; bill that could...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: German athletes barely care about Rule 50; Canadian athletes split on...
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LANE ONE: Conspiracy theorists alert! IOC and WADA could BOTH suspend U.S. for Beijing...
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