Tag: Rule 50
THE 5-RING CIRCUS: Tokyo fires an OpCer director one day prior; IOC’s Coates “orders”...
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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...
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....
THE TICKER: ASOIF chief calls for “spartan games” in Tokyo! Rule 50 recommendations coming...
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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: The IOC’s new balancing act: sometimes being “athlete-centered” isn’t enough
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: German athletes barely care about Rule 50; Canadian athletes split on...
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LANE ONE: Gwen Berry’s Pan Am protest: “I had to make my stance in...
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LANE ONE: Australian and Irish athletes say no protests on the podium, while USOPC...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Miller Time on the IOC and protests; World Ath gives $579,000...
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MILLER TIME: Olympic Ethic Outweighs Protest
(This guest column is by one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Olympic Movement, Britain’s David Miller. For more than 50 years, the...
LANE ONE: Protest or not to protest? The IOC’s choices are hardly black or...
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LANE ONE: American athletes should write their own version of the IOC’s Rule 50:...
“The IOC’s current position is very clear in regards to protest. Whether you agree or not, and choose to follow the rules, will be...
LANE ONE: It isn’t easy being an Olympic athlete in almost any sport, and...
It’s hard enough to be an Olympic athlete, especially from hyper-competitive teams like the United States, China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and elsewhere.
It got...
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