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The Sports Examiner: Brisbane on the verge of getting 2032 Games; weightlifting on the verge of being thrown out of 2024 Games

February 25, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● With just less than seven months left prior to the Tokyo Games, the news conference following the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board meeting was dominated by the news […]

The Sports Examiner: IOC’s Agenda 2020+5 eyes massive commercial expansion, new multi-sport competitions, and eSports as future Games events

February 19, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● For most of its 127-year history, the International Olympic Committee has mostly been about the staging of two events, the Olympic and Olympic Winter Games, now occurring for […]

The Sports Examiner: IOC letter slams boxing “progress” and weightlifting on the brink of chaos; can either survive in the Games to 2024?

February 16, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● ”The IOC Special Monitoring Committee would just like to reiterate that, unless significant progresses are made, it will present its recommendations to the IOC Executive Board, which may […]

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The Sports Examiner: Calls for a Beijing 2022 boycott grow louder, but is the reference point 1980, or 1936? So what now?

February 10, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● As if there was any confusion remaining about whether sports and politics are inextricably intertwined, consider Sunday’s tweet from Xijin Hu, the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Times, self-described […]

The Sports Examiner: If you’re a journalist and you can’t interview the athletes, would you go to cover the Tokyo Games? That may be the reality.

February 6, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee published two more editions of its “Playbooks” for stakeholders in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer, for rights-holding broadcasters and for all […]

The Sports Examiner: IOC chief Bach on the offensive, says “the prospects are good” for Tokyo Games to be held, perhaps without spectators, and what else?

January 26, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Already dealing with doubts about whether the Tokyo Games will actually take place, the short story in The Times (London) last Thursday (21st) claiming the Japanese government had […]

The Sports Examiner: Ex-IOC member Gosper thinks United Nations could help “in arbitrating whether the Games go ahead or not”

January 18, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Rule 58 of the 2020 edition of the Olympic Charter reads: “The authority of last resort on any question concerning the Olympic Games rests with the IOC.” Rule […]

The Sports Examiner: Appointment of Edwin Moses and Han Xiao gives EOPAAA Commission 10 of 16 members needed; where are the others?

January 14, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Hurry up! Amid all the tumult in Washington, D.C. these days, Tuesday (12th) was a significant day for the in-formation Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and […]

The Sports Examiner: “If the U.S. becomes a rogue state I think we will start looking at whether the Games in Los Angeles should proceed”

January 11, 2021 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Canadian Olympic swimmer Richard W. “Dick” Pound became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1978 and has been one of the most important, […]

The Sports Examiner: Is the Athlete’s Voice as important as anti-doping? What happens when they are in conflict? They are!

December 30, 2020 Rich Perelman 0

● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The power of the “athlete’s voice” and the fight against doping are two of the top stories of 2020 in the world of Olympic sport. For the most […]