2024 - Perelman Pioneer & Company

The Sports Examiner: The top stories of 2024, nos. 5-1: Swimming heroes and records, Russia’s return, track explodes, Bach steps away and there was Paris

December 30, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● It was a grand year for Olympic sport in 2024, and after counting down the most compelling stories of the year from no. 10 to no. 6, let’s get […]

The Sports Examiner: The top stories of 2024, nos. 10-6: Pogacar, Elor, FIFA, transgenders, Biles, Chiles and a nasty fight over doping

December 29, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● There’s no question about the top story of 2024; it’s the brilliant success of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris last summer. But that was not […]

The Sports Examiner: LA28 organizing committee 2023 tax return shows a loss of $66.03 million, but that’s actually an improvement!

December 20, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● A $66.03 million annual loss is not usually the basis for optimism, but a review of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic & Paralympic Organizing Committee’s Form 990 tax […]

The Sports Examiner: College T&F and X-C coaches told “Our sports are under siege,” asked “will you watch from the sidelines as our sports fade into irrelevance?”

December 19, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “Simply put, our sports do not measure up in these areas.” Very few people outside of the world of college cross country and track & field can tell […]

The Sports Examiner: LA28 Chair Wasserman repeats his warning that “Team USA is over” if college football “leaves the system”

December 11, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “That fork in the road is if football leaves the system and the money leaves the system, Team USA is over. “We can pretend like that’s not the […]

The Sports Examiner: IOC report says the 2024 Olympic audience worldwide approached 5 billion, or 84% of of the potential audience

December 6, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “These Olympic Games Paris 2024 met the expectations of the world. These were truly Olympic Games of a new era.” That’s from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach (GER) at […]

The Sports Examiner: FIFA evaluation report positive on Saudi Arabia as 2034 FIFA World Cup host; Amnesty decries “astonishing whitewash”

December 3, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “[T]he Saudi Arabia bid for the FIFA World Cup 2034 presents a very strong all-round proposition, reflected in the results of the technical evaluation, which assesses the proposed […]

The Sports Examiner: Michael Johnson explains his Grand Slam Track “can save track, I don’t think I can save track and field.

November 28, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● “I love this sport. But I have had time to reconcile the fact that if we continue to just do the same thing, tell people that ‘you should […]

The Sports Examiner: Pierre de Coubertin’s 1892 call to re-start the Olympic Games failed, but it created the modern Olympic Movement

November 27, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● At a banquet during the 1908 Olympic Games in London, Pierre de Coubertin, the French visionary who revived the Olympic Movement, told the guests: “What counts in life is […]

The Sports Examiner: The best explanation yet why traffic will be handled for the 2028 Olympic & Paralympic Games: “no different than Carmageddon”

November 17, 2024 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The LA28 Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee doesn’t say much publicly, at least not yet. But at every news conference, the same two questions come up: the infamous […]