Tag: Paris 2024
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...
LANE ONE: The Paris 2024 legacy will be about athletes, but not Olympians
The Paris 2024 organizing committee created plenty of headlines last week with its announcement that it would ask the International Olympic Committee to approve...
THE BIG PICTURE: Paris 2024 asks for four added sports: three from 2020, one...
The International Olympic Committee went back to the past when it allowed Tokyo 2020 to propose added sports for its program, as used to...
LANE ONE: The Olympic Games cannot solve the world’s problems, as Paris 2024 is...
There was a time when modesty and humility were prized, and the idea that if you made reasonable promises and over-delivered on those promises,...
SAILING: New Keelboat event approved for Paris 2024
The World Sailing Annual Conference closed in Sarasota, Florida (USA) last Sunday with a major change to the Olympic events program for the 2024...
Tokyo and Paris sign mutual-cooperation accord, but will they really cooperate?
TSX HEADLINES – for July 13, 2018: With considerable fanfare, the chief executives of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee and Paris 2024 committee signed...
Tokyo and Paris sign mutual-cooperation accord, but will they really cooperate?
TSX HEADLINES – for July 13, 2018: With considerable fanfare, the chief executives of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee and Paris 2024 committee signed...
Is Paris 2024 preparing to burn itself at the stake?
TSX HEADLINES – for June 20, 2018: Screaming headlines declared that the Paris 2024 organizers are aiming to impact France in a huge way,...
Is Paris 2024 preparing to burn itself at the stake?
TSX HEADLINES – for June 20, 2018: Screaming headlines declared that the Paris 2024 organizers are aiming to impact France in a huge way,...
New world record: 198 days for Paris 2024 budget projected to explode
TSX HEADLINES – for Apr. 2, 2018: It took the Tokyo government about two years to determine that the 2020 Olympic Games budget was...
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