Tag: Paris 2024
THE TICKER: Athletes will be in-and-out of Tokyo; IOC unhappy with AIBA, IWF and...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee...
LANE ONE: He’s doing it again! Bach and IOC pave the way to cut...
One of the ways you can measure the true values of a leader is to watch them when the pressure is off.
In the midst...
LANE ONE: With the Paris 2024 program about to be approved, how will Los...
In December, the International Olympic Committee is expected to approve the competition program for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris in 2024.
The...
THE TICKER: S. 2330 sent to White House; USA Wrestling skips 2020 World Champs;...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee ● The “Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes...
THE TICKER: USOPC chief calls S. 2330 “a big win,” Paris 2024 cuts costs;...
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LANE ONE: LA28 revenue chief Kathy Carter on the planning effort: “we’re looking at...
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LANE ONE: Why is World Athletics so timid about grabbing an opportunity to dominate...
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MILLER TIME: How Risk Averse Is Tokyo’s Postponement?
(It’s a pleasure to present this guest column by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For more...
THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo 2020 moves forward slowly, but talk about the Games is...
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LANE ONE: Racism becomes issue one for IOC, but consensus will be favored over...
There are plenty of people who will tell you the International Olympic Committee is deaf. Not this time.
Although the preparations for Tokyo 2020 were...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Ajan says McLaren Report charges “unfounded” while 11-year-old skateboarder Brown survives...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
“The claims against me are unfounded”
That’s the reply of former International Weightlifting Federation...
LANE ONE: Bach asks for “frugal Games” in Tokyo; what can be learned from...
For those of a certain age, who lived through a prior crisis that threatened the existence of the Olympic Games, it was simply staggering...
LANE ONE: France’s Guy Drut says the Games “must reinvent themselves”; how about throwing...
France’s Guy Drut is best known as the 1976 Olympic champion in the 110 m hurdles and a a controversial politician in his home...
THE BIG PICTURE: IOC expects Tokyo Games to go on as scheduled, passes on...
Within the Olympic world, Tuesday’s attention was on Lausanne and the meeting of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee ... and the...
LANE ONE: De Coubertin’s 1892 Olympic-revival manifesto is back in Lausanne, but what did...
On Monday, the International Olympic Committee gleefully welcomed the donation of the original manuscript of Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s 1892 speech that called for...
TSX REPORT: The World Beach Games came and went; did you notice? + Paris...
≡ TSX REPORT ~ 24 October 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● What was all the fuss about the World Beach Games, anyway?
Although a major topic of discussion...
LANE ONE: You want transparency? Look to World Rowing and you will see it,...
There has been much made of the lack of transparency, not to mention outright secrecy or deceit within the International Federations which govern sports...
THE BIG PICTURE: IOC Session confirms all of the Bach-led reforms for now and...
The International Olympic Committee membership agreed with all of the initiatives and reforms passed by its Executive Board and gave its President, Thomas Bach...
LANE ONE: Thomas Bach is changing the IOC into something totally new, but will...
Meetings of the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board draw quite a bit of media attention, even though there is often not a single athlete...
LANE ONE: Thomas Bach’s IOC wants “to get the couch potatoes off the couch”
The focus of the Olympic Movement has changed.
It was, until very recently, to stage the greatest sports spectacle in the world. But in a...
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