● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The drumbeat for Paris 2024 has already started, as evidenced by the comments from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (GER) at Friday’s news conference following two days of Executive Board meetings: […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● In today’s digital age, things that were old are new again. Trading cards were apparently a U.S. phenomenon, starting as far back as the 1860s, used by sporting goods […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Under Swiss President Gianni Infantino, FIFA – the international football federation – has undertaken to grow the game even beyond its present status as the world’s most popular spectator […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “Surely, surely Gail, and this is one of the reasons why we have come here to Eugene; surely a 1-2-3 in a home World Championship will generate front-page […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is big. Really big. Bigger than all but one of the International Federations, and likely the third-richest Olympic Movement organization in the world. The […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “Can one desire too much of a good thing?” The answer to William Shakespeare’s question from As You Like It, around 1600, is yes. It applies more than 400 years later to last […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “There is no money for the Olympics. Dear Prime Minister, there are four years left and we are worried.” The headlines come from a letter sent to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● At the end of a detailed – and well-received – presentation before the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, the President of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, three-time […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● April’s Olympic Studies Centre report, Over 125 years of Olympic venues: post-Games use, provided a fascinating snapshot of what has happened to the hundreds of sites used for […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Studies Centre released a fascinating study last week, trying to determine the status and usage of every Olympic venue from the 1896 Athens Games through […]
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