Tag: World Anti-Doping Agency
LANE ONE: Ingratitude, money, politics, winners and losers ~ 5 takeaways from the Tokyo...
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain some time
~ from the 1970 Grammy...
THE TICKER: Sun sets on China’s star freestyler; Russia vs. WADA timetable get clearer...
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Court Watch I: Yang Sun suspended for 8 years ● The Court of...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: U.S. Marathon Trials coming Saturday; World Baseball Classic sites revealed; more...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport (updated):
● Vox Populi ● We received several reader comments on recent stories,...
THE BIG PICTURE: BBC catches four-time Olympic champ Farah in lie on supplements
Here’s what 2017 Steeplechase World Champion Emma Coburn of the U.S. had to say about Monday’s BBC documentary about Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medalist...
LANE ONE: USA Gymnastics proposes $215 million settlement, while Russia may be kicked out...
The Larry Nassar abuse scandal and the Russian doping saga have been enduring nightmares in Olympic sport over the last several years, but both...
THE TICKER: USOPC provides $525,000 for Athletes’ Advisory Council, NCAA allows more Olympic-athlete support
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee ● Another of the urgent desires of...
LANE ONE: Ajan steps down as International Weightlifting Federation head for now, American Ursula...
One of the seemingly eternal figures in international sport, Hungary’s Tamas Ajan, agreed to “step away” from his position as the elected President of...
THE TICKER: Everyone wants in on the Russian appeal of its suspension by WADA
The latest news, notes and quotes from the worldwide Five-Ring Circus:
● Doping ● It seems that everybody is in on the appeal of the...
LANE ONE: Bach beams as IOC’s Athletes’ Commission issues athlete protest regulations for Tokyo...
In late 1981, International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch sent a letter to German fencer Thomas Bach and others, stating “I have decided...
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...
THE BIG PICTURE: German documentary drops a bomb on weightlifting, alleging doping and financial...
The folks who brought you the Russian doping scandal in December of 2014 are back at it again.
The ARD network of regional public-service broadcasters...
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 top stories coming in 2020, part 1: Showdowns coming in Tokyo!...
The calendar has turned and we are now in the Olympic year of 2020. But although the Tokyo Games will be the top story...
LANE ONE: The top stories of 2019, from no. 5 to no. 1, a...
Let there be no doubt, this was a wild year in Olympic sport, and as with so many areas today, full of contention, argument...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russian strategy for doping case now plain; Women’s World Cup could...
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● Doping ● What appears to be a coordinated Russian strategy to contest...
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,...
HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russia appeals; PR star Pete Cava passes suddenly, another 2012 positive
News, views and noise from the non-stop, worldwide circus of Olympic sport:
● RUSADA confirms sanctions appeal to CAS ● To the surprise of absolutely...
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...
LANE ONE: WADA did this much right: they got the Russians angry! Or is...
Monday’s decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency to hold the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to be non-compliant for a period of four years was cheered...
THE BIG PICTURE: WADA approves four-year ban on Russia, but no blanket ban on...
As expected, the World Anti-Doping Agency Executive Committee approved the recommendations of its Compliance Review Committee and declared Russia to be “non-compliant” with the...
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