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TSX REPORT: FIFPRO, leagues ask FIFA to reschedule Club World Cup; Japan’s Uno retires; 2024-25 alpine schedule has finals in Sun Valley!

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Beijing 2022 playbooks released; 2019 World Beach Games cost $23.5 million; Bruce Jenner almost lit the ‘84 torch!

1984 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Rafer Johnson admired, praised and remembered as a true role model at touching UCLA ceremony

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: Appointment of Edwin Moses and Han Xiao gives EOPAAA Commission 10 of 16 members needed; where are the others?

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Salute to Rafer; is surfing the new Olympic star? Spikeless sprint shoes? U.S.-Canada in IIHF World Junior finale tonight!

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: The top-10 stories of 2020, a year most of us would like to forget

1956 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Remembering the timeless humanity of Olympic track & field stars Rafer Johnson and Arnie Robinson

5-Ring Circus

ATHLETICS: Olympic Decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson passes at 86

Alpine Skiing

TSX REPORT: UCLA names Drake Stadium track after Rafer Johnson; Kiwi teen Robinson surprises Shiffrin and Aussie Atherton sets Short-Course 100 m Back world...

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: UCLA dedicates famed Drake Stadium track to Betsy & Rafer Johnson

1984 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Remembering the day the Olympic Movement didn’t collapse: 8 May 1984

Athletics

ATHLETICS: Happy Birthday to Rafer Johnson!

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U.S. Anti-Doping in 2017: 9,936 tests, just 84 reported cases

Beach Volleyball

U.S. Anti-Doping in 2017: 9,936 tests, just 84 reported cases

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Remember when 108,000 came to see a track meet at Stanford?

Badminton

Remember when 108,000 came to see a track meet at Stanford?

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2028 Olympic Games

LOS ANGELES 2028: Agent for Olympic women’s 100 m champ Alfred says one-day 2028 women’s 100 m schedule is inequitable vs. men

Event Management

OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: Ex-IOC marketing director Payne offers front-row seat on how the IOC grew into a commercial colossus

Table Tennis

TABLE TENNIS: ITTF holds three “disruptors” from its May annual meeting ineligible for Executive Board elections Saturday

International Olympic Committee

VOX POPULI: Will European sport will remain independent and ethical – or will it will be bought?