Tag: Pierre de Coubertin
LANE ONE: French President Macron wants “maximum pressure” for more medals in 2024; asks...
If you think Olympic sport in the U.S. is contentious, over athlete expression, sponsorship rights and protests, consider what’s going on in France!
Last week’s...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: North Korea to skip Tokyo? Japan’s leukemia survivor Ikee makes Tokyo...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● Japan’s Kyodo News Service...
THE TICKER: Japanese government denies Games cancellation decision, for now; EOPAAA Commission deadline likely...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Comebacking Bromell steams to 9.90 win in Florida; honors for Jim...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport (updated):
● Athletics ● The comeback story of 2020 is 2016 Olympic sprinter...
MILLER TIME: Thomas Bach’s bid to upstage Sisyphus
/It’s a great pleasure to present this guest column by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For...
THE TICKER: Honoring Dick Shea; more money info on ANOC and UIPM; Diack trial...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● More Memorial Day memories ● Further to Tuesday’s notes from Barry Schreiber on...
LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org
What makes the Olympic Games different from all other competitions in sport is history.
From its beginning as a religious festival in ancient Greece to...
LANE ONE: Who’s in the money? EXCLUSIVE analysis of our survey of International Federation...
/Updated to include new posting for Modern Pentathlon/ Each of the International Federations which have a sport on the program of the Olympic Games...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Track not dead; UK Sports asks for more money; UK Athletics...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Vox Populi ● On the responses to our 24 April story about...
LANE ONE: Was Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who made the IOC modern, its...
In the continuing tumult over the future of the Tokyo Games and the worldwide struggle with the coronavirus, the 10-year anniversary of the passing...
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...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russian strategy for doping case now plain; Women’s World Cup could...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● What appears to be a coordinated Russian strategy to contest...
TSX DAILY: Crazy 2020 Triathlon qualifier ends in double disqualification
= TSX DAILY ~ 15 August 2019 =
| 1. | TRIATHLON: Women’s Olympic qualifier ends with hand-in-hand Brits disqualified, but Summer Rappaport makes U.S. team
This is why...
Let’s make the Decathlon and Heptathlon more like the Modern Pentathlon!
Track and field athletes, officials and fans have all heard the joke: “What’s more exciting: the Decathlon or watching paint dry?”
If you’re not into...
After 125 years, time to say “Thanks, Baron” one more time
PALM DESERT, November 24, 2017 – This Saturday will mark 125 years since a 29-year-old Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin proposed that the Olympic...
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