Tag: Witold Banka
HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA-U.S. war of words continues; Bach visits Tokyo; Dressel and Shields...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● International Olympic Committee chief...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: WADA-U.S. tensions thaw; Japan easing athlete entry for Games; Wrestling Worlds...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Anti-Doping ● The highly-publicized conflict between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the...
THE TICKER: S. 2330 sent to White House; USA Wrestling skips 2020 World Champs;...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee ● The “Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes...
LANE ONE: Stunning WADA report shows IWF, some national weightlifting federations “allowed doping to...
On Tuesday, the International Weightlifting Federation posted a note celebrating the support of “more than one hundred Member Federations” for a Constitution Reform Congress...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Crouser awesome again in Zagreb; Lake Placid loses IBSF 2021 Worlds;...
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LANE ONE: Conspiracy theorists alert! IOC and WADA could BOTH suspend U.S. for Beijing...
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HEARD AT HALFTIME: Koike crushes 21 others for re-election; AIBA-WBA tie-up coming? WADA’s Banka...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Games of the XXXII Olympiad: Tokyo 2020 ● Incumbent Yuriko Koike won...
LANE ONE: Russian athletics misses fine deadline and WADA slaps back hard at U.S....
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LANE ONE: Fiction becomes Olympic reality in Russia: “You arrogant ass. You’ve killed us!”
The dramatic climax to the 1990 thriller “The Hunt for Red October” saw the ultra-aggressive Captain Tupolev trying to torpedo the runaway Soviet submarine...
TSX INTEL REPORT: Athlete shrieking over the Diamond League obscures the real issue; world...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 11 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● Athlete shrieking over dropped Diamond League events misses the point completely
When the...
TSX INTEL REPORT: IAAF takes lead, and UCI joins, on transgender regulations; WADA chief-to-be...
≡ TSX INTELLIGENCE REPORT ~ 7 November 2019 ≡
● LANE ONE ● IAAF taking the lead in transgender regulation, working with other IFs on testosterone levels
It...
THE BIG PICTURE: Banka calls WADA’s budget “ridiculous” and Bach antes $10 million at...
“It is ridiculous that an organization with the status of a global regulator has a budget of less than 40 million dollars. An average...
THE BIG PICTURE: Poland’s Banka elected next head of the World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency is headed by an elected Chair with a six-year term, rotated between a sports-organization candidate and one from governmental authorites.
Poland’s...
THE BIG PICTURE: Russia still at the center of World Anti-Doping Agency’s annual symposium
The continuing question of Russian doping cast a long shadow over the Annual Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) during its Annual Symposium...
LANE ONE: Fasten your seat belt: The Olympic Movement has a rough November ahead
This promises to be a turbulent week for the Olympic Movement with two major off-the-field events taking place in Canada and Azerbaijan and at...
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