Tag: Thomas Bach
LANE ONE: IOC chief Thomas Bach channels Star Trek’s Captain Kirk to defeat the...
Fans of the Star Trek storyline know the reference immediately: the Starfleet Academy exercise in which the freighter Kobayashi Maru is marooned in the...
LANE ONE: IOC members will choose the 2026 host on Monday, but are already...
The International Olympic Committee membership will meet on Monday in Lausanne (SUI) to select the host city/region for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, but...
LANE ONE: The death of AIBA is upon us, but what happens after the...
The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board is meeting in Lausanne (SUI), just ahead of the IOC Session next week, which will include the selection...
LANE ONE: The 2026 Winter Games host will be selected in seven days; did...
Despite all of the many stories written about the implosion of interest in the Olympic Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee will make exactly...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Not so fast on Australia for 2032, no racing at all...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXVth Olympiad ● International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach...
LANE ONE: The IOC keeps changing the Games, and not a minute too soon
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said – with good reason – that the Olympic Movement is in pretty good shape at the...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: IOC is going to be even more flexible in the Olympic...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Olympic Games ● The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board received a report...
THE BIG PICTURE: Boxing confirmed for Tokyo 2020, but organized by the IOC, not...
/Updated: see footnote/The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board kept its promise to the athletes.
There will be a boxing tournament at the Tokyo Games in...
LANE ONE: Olympic budget pressures mean nothing to those who aren’t paying for the...
Spending someone else’s money is pretty easy. The Olympic Movement has been great at it for decades.
The International Olympic Committee, especially under the administration...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: WADA chief Reedie says he is “unsure” of winning against doping
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● Britain’s Craig Reedie is the elected head of the World...
THE BIG PICTURE: Bach signals AIBA’s days may be numbered
The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board will meet on 22 May in Lausanne to determine whether the International Boxing Association – known by its...
LANE ONE: With just more than a year to go, how ready Tokyo 2020...
In remarks to the Australian Olympic Committee’s Annual General Assembly last Saturday, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach of Germany told the delegates:
“With the...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Raelene Boyle rightly calls on the IOC to redress East German...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● The Australian Olympic Committee’s Annual General Meeting drew a lot...
LANE ONE: “Show me the money” was the first order of business at the...
The International Olympic Committee assembled about 350 current and former athletes from 185 countries at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne (SUI) for the...
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: The strange story of the International Boxing Association gets even stranger
As had been expected, the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board took no action concerning the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on the final day of...
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: Crucial IOC Executive Board meeting this week in Switzerland could impact multiple...
We’re going to have some interesting days starting on Tuesday as the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meets in Lausanne (SUI). A series of...
LANE ONE: A call to eliminate guns from the Games, but that doesn’t go...
The highly-respected Alan Abrahamson, one of the best commentators on Olympic sport, wrote on his 3WireSports site last Saturday that:
"The Games and the values...
LANE ONE: Agenda 2020 and the future of Baseball, Softball and other sports trying...
The 21 February announcement that Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, Surfing and Breakdancing were the requested additions to the program of the 2024 Olympic Games by...
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