Clik here to view.
Mutai, Jeptoo ensure Kenyan sweep at New York City Marathon
Defending champion Geoffrey Mutai and his compatriot Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s races at the New York City Marathon today to ensure a Kenyan clean sweep of the event. Mutai, who set a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mega Events: Why Big Sports Needs To Engage the Little Guy
It is July 29, 2012. I am on a bus with other journalists being whisked through South-East London on a lane reserved for Olympic vehicles. Beside us, I am uncomfortably aware, snakes a long queue of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rio 2016 Unveil Official Olympic, Paralympic Pictograms
Rio 2016 recently unveiled its official pictograms, which for the first time ever will depict each of the 41 Olympic and 23 Paralympic sports that are part of the program. The 16-month project began...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Olympic Torch Back From International Space Station
Russia’s Soyuz space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan on Monday, returning three astronauts and the symbolic Olympic Torch to Earth after its first ever spacewalk. According to the RIA Novosti news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coates: Baseball, Softball Possibilities For Tokyo Games
(ATR) The Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission chairman expressed a possibility that baseball/softball could be on the Olympic Program in Tokyo. John Coates made the comments to Around the Rings in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Diack: Accusations Against World’s Dominant Sprinting Nation Becoming ‘Absurd’
Concern within the IOC and ASOIF about WADA’s idiosyncratic administrative behavior is further illustrated by the controversy involving Jamaica. This reached a climax last Saturday, during the IAAF’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Has Happened To Hostility, Aggression In Sport Today?
With Summer sports basking in a post-season recess and Winter ones still to reach full speed, the most engrossing sporting event currently going on, for Englishmen and Australians at least, is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Receiving “Lot of Encouragement” From IOC Members For 2024 Olympic Bid,...
A potential bid from America for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is receiving strong support already from International Olympic Committee (IOC) members it was claimed today by Larry Probst, President...
View ArticleClik here to view.
IOC President: There Must Be Total Commitment For Rio 2016
Rio 2016 – “There must be total commitment” David Miller reports on IOC President Thomas Bach’s inaugural teleconference. IOC President Thomas Bach has introduced an innovative series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sochi 2014 Has Potential To Damage Olympic Brand
For Sochi 2014, read Beijing 2008: it has long been hard to resist the temptation to bracket together the Olympic Movement’s principal recent flirtations with powerful, authoritarian states....
View ArticleHair Follicle Testing “no problem” for Sprint King Bolt, He Claims
Usain Bolt has welcomed plans by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to introduce hair follicle testing to catch drug cheats saying he had “no problem” with the new measures. Speaking at an awards...
View ArticleFinnish Sports Minister Refuses to Attend Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony
Finland’s Minister for Sport and Culture Paavo Arhinmäki has announced he is boycotting the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics because of concerns over Russia’s human rights record....
View ArticleBupa Westminster Mile Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Record Breakers,...
Runners will line the streets of Westminster, London, on Saturday, 24 May 2014, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister becoming the first athlete to run a mile in less than four...
View ArticleUSOC discuss possible cities to submit bids for 2024 Summer Games
Expressly encouraged by IOC President Thomas Bach to enter a bid for the Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee — although insisting it has not been decided whether or not to enter a candidate for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
London 2012 anti-doping operation in Rio could be difficult
Sir Craig Reedie, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has warned it is going to be difficult to ensure the drug testing operation at Rio 2016 is as efficient as that of London 2012...
View ArticleThomas Bach’s Open-Door Olympic Laboratory
How to run the Olympic Games? The former Soviet Union once campaigned for the IOC to introduce UN-style one-country-one-vote membership. President Thomas Bach’s innovative ‘Agenda 2020’ scrutiny,...
View ArticleIOC and the United Nations share the same values
Underlining that the IOC and the United Nations “share the same values of contributing to a better and peaceful world through sport,” IOC President Thomas Bach and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
View ArticlePrincess Haya to stand for third Presidential term as FEI changes rules
International Equestrian Federation (FEI) President Princess Haya has said she will stand for a third term after members voted overwhelmingly to change its statutes to allow her to run. Princess Haya...
View ArticleVice President of the International Olympic Committee is confident that Rio...
John Coates claims he is confident Rio 2016 will “deliver excellent Games” following reassurances from officials in Brazil and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that they are doing everything...
View ArticleThe USOC share of the new NBC deal with the IOC will be approximately 1...
For $7.75 billion, NBC has extended its U.S. broadcast rights for the Olympics through 2032 without going through a bidding process. The new deal, announced Wednesday by NBC and the International...
View Article