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2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: World Athletics offers 20 for Athletes of the Year; three ARs for Huddle; 28% of AIBA federations can’t vote; unhappy cyclists forming...

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: WADA vs. RUSADA in Court of Arbitration for Sport starts Monday; World Ath expands indoor tour; what the Leeper decision really means

1976 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Bach stresses unity; Coleman suspended for two years; Leeper loses CAS appeal over prostheses; is NFL’s D.K. Metcalf really so fast?

Alpine Skiing

HIGHLIGHTS: Record win for Jepchirchir in World Half Marathon; King streak reaches 18 straight races in ISL opener; just two fighting for Giro d’Italia...

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: World Athletics finally unveils potentially huge new World Road Running Championships for 2023

1988 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Tokyo 2020 announces “simplification” measures; IOC concerns mount on Italian government meddling; more time for Russia on re-entry plan

Athletics

HIGHLIGHTS: World leaders for Kipyegon and Obiri in Doha Diamond League; Ganna overpowers field for World Time Trial title in Italy

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Duplantis clears outdoor-best 6.15 m (20-2) in Rome; Diack gets two years in prison; Roglic set to take Tour de France

5-Ring Circus

THE BIG PICTURE: World Athletics releases 2019 financials, with better-than-expected results (and reserves), while Roglic takes charge of Le Tour

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Swiss Tribunal dismisses Semenya appeal; Warholm, Crouser, Kiplimo, Taylor star in Ostrava; Tokyo 2020 “at any cost”?

5-Ring Circus

THE TICKER: Three “world records”: for Farah, Abdi and Hassan in Brussels; another win for van Aert at Le Tour; double death for Iranian...

2020 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Russia anti-doping in turmoil as Ganus dismissed; Duplantis clears 19-11 (really 21 feet!) in Lausanne; Yates new Tour leader

5-Ring Circus

THE TICKER: Athletics Diamond League moves to Stockholm; Lyles wins two; USA Gymnastics and Nassar survivors at impasse in mediation

2032 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: World Athletics gives Russia until 15 August to pay up; FIFA’s Infantino faces Swiss criminal charges; time for IOC to investigate gymnastics?

1980 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Tokyo 2020+1 marks year-to-go; FINA relief project up to $6.46 million; Michael Norman now a triple threat for Tokyo?

2020 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Pound opines if Tokyo ‘21 cancels, so might Beijing ‘22; The Athletics Association launches; ISU now has $281 million in reserves!

2012 Olympic Games

HEARD AT HALFTIME: U.S. colleges invest $366 million in swimming; Russian T&F chief resigns; Power-5 schools to form NCAA replacement?

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: No money, no Russians in international T&F; Gwen Berry spurns grant; FIFA to distribute $1.5 billion to member feds!

5-Ring Circus

LANE ONE: Russian athletics misses fine deadline and WADA slaps back hard at U.S. Office of National Drug Policy report

1924 Olympic Games

THE TICKER: Australia-New Zealand gets ‘23 FIFA Women’s World Cup, White House report flames WADA, 50% doping in swimming?

1896 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Study shows U.S. colleges spent almost $1 billion on track & field in 2018; with more than 25,000 athletes on scholarship!

5-Ring Circus

HEARD AT HALFTIME: Miller Time on the IOC and protests; World Ath gives $579,000 to athletes; Diack trial wraps; IFs ranked on governance

2020 Olympic Games

LANE ONE: Protest or not to protest? The IOC’s choices are hardly black or white; maybe John Carlos had the answer back in 1968

5-Ring Circus

THE TICKER: French prosecutors ask four years for Diack; sprint star Coleman suspended; more World Athletics finance woes

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