Tag: Tokyo 2020
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Chile proposes cheap Pan Am Games … at $507 million; the...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● XIX Pan American Games 2023 ● The organizing committee of the 2023...
LANE ONE: The top stories coming in 2020, part 2: More courtroom drama, more...
Look for tumultuous year on and off the field of play in 2020, with the Tokyo Games coming, but a lot of drama before...
LANE ONE: The numbers are in, and while Tokyo’s budget stays level, WADA reports...
Two important sets of reports were released late last week, by the Tokyo Olympic organizers and the World Anti-Doping Agency. Both showed good news,...
LANE ONE: Is anything going on in world sport besides Russia and doping? Yes,...
There’s the NFL heading toward the playoffs and the baseball Hot Stove League is on fire right now, but in the Olympic world, all...
TSX INTEL REPORT: The Int’l Swimming League is half over; have you noticed? +...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 4 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● Is the International Swimming League making an impact? It doesn't appear to be making...
THE BIG PICTURE: Tokyo concedes event moves to Sapporo, but gets back $100+ million?
The tug-of-war over the location of the Olympic marathons and race walks for 2020 was concluded on Friday during the meeting of the International...
TSX INTEL REPORT: More events to be moved from Tokyo due to heat? Here...
= TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 1 November 2019 =
● LANE ONE ● IOC moves Tokyo marathons and walks, but are there still more events to be moved?
The International...
LANE ONE: IOC moves Tokyo marathons and walks, but are there still more events...
The International Olympic Committee’s ninth Coordination Commission meeting is underway in Tokyo, and there is a lot to talk about with less than a...
TSX INTEL REPORT: Russia sends more answers to WADA on “manipulated” doping data; NCAA...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 30 October 2019 ≡
● LEADING OFF ● Russian Sports Ministry sends responses to WADA inquiries
The question of what to...
LANE ONE: IOC’s Bach says Salazar case “raises serious concerns”; no vote on 2032...
“We have also discussed the Salazar case, which is very worrying and raises serious concerns, but we are confident that will look into...
TSX DAILY: Why WADA in charge of the Russian data case, not the IOC...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 30 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: Why Russia's situation for Tokyo rests with the World Anti-Doping Agency and not...
LANE ONE: Why Russia’s situation for Tokyo rests with the World Anti-Doping Agency and...
At Friday’s joint news conference between the International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach of Germany and IAAF President Sebastian Coe of Great Britain, the...
TSX DAILY: Middle East politics part of Israeli judoka’s path to World Champs gold;...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 29 August 2019 ≡
| 1. | LEADING OFF: Israel’s Muki wins Judo Worlds gold, but not a handshake from beaten Egyptian
The...
TSX DAILY: The life of a triple Olympic champion includes “I just fainted, and...
= TSX DAILY ~ 13 August 2019 =
| 1. | ATHLETICS: Tianna Bartoletta’s odyssey now includes anemia
If you read her resume, you’d think Tianna Bartoletta would have...
VOLLEYBALL: Men’s Olympic qualifying tourneys will send six to Tokyo; U.S. is in Rotterdam
After a dramatic weekend of women’s qualifying, the men’s Olympic qualifying tournaments are on this week, with six tickets to be punched for Tokyo...
TSX DAILY: Stunning results at U.S. swim Nationals, anti-Games activists channeling Groucho, and remembering...
= TSX DAILY ~ 5 August 2019 =
| 1. | SWIMMING: New talent shines at the 2019 USA Swimming Nationals, as if the U.S. didn’t...
LANE ONE: Anti-Olympic activists appear to be getting their strategy from … Prof. Quincy...
In one of the most riotous comedies of all time and a world-class spoof of American college life, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff addressed the...
HEARD AFTER HALFTIME: Another 2012 gold medalist caught for doping; Katie Ledecky speaks and...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXX Olympiad: London 2012 ● The International Olympic Committee...
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...
ARCHERY Preview: More than a dozen Olympic and World medalists at Tokyo test event
The World Archery World Cup in Berlin ended last Sunday, but a lot of the top shooters in the world didn’t go home; they...
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