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PARIS — From the outset, Paris 2024’s plans for the Olympic Summer Games was ambitious. It began with a deconstructed Opening Ceremony along the Seine and it is ending with other firsts, including a public marathon on the official Olympic course near the end. In between, organizing committee leaders have been pleased with how things […]
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PARIS — The last time I had the chance to interview USA Swimming President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Hinchey in person, it was during eight hours of quarantine together at Narita Airport in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games. Three years after those pandemic-era Games, I had the opportunity to catch up with […]
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Five-time U.S. Olympian Allyson Felix, who made Olympic history by winning 11 medals, has been elected to the IOC Athletes’ Commission. Felix will serve an eight-year term and be confirmed as member of the International Olympic Committee at the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Games in Paris on August 11. Felix stepped away from athletics […]
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PARIS — In the pantheon of Olympic sports whose athletes get overlooked, artistic swimming may be near the top. Athletes may look flashy in their over-the-top costumes and poses in the water, but make no mistake about what is happening underneath the water to make some of the most dramatic moments of a routine shine. […]
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Future Olympic hosts for both Summer and Winter Games are being taken along the inner workings of the Paris 2024 committee as part of the IOC’s Information, Knowledge and Games Learning program. More than 400 officials from the Organizing Committees for Milano Cortina 2026, Dakar 2026 Youth Games, LA28 and Brisbane 2032, plus representatives of […]
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You may not immediately recognize the name Danny Boy O’Connor. But if you’ve turned on a radio or attended an in-person sports event in the last 30 years you certainly know his music. As a co-founder of the group House of Pain, he was on the ground floor of the group’s biggest crossover hit, “Jump […]
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PARIS — Max Siegel cut a relaxed figure on the concourse at the Stade de France in the early evening on Sunday, less than 90 minutes before that night’s session of athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. This is the time every four years that USA Track & Field gets more exposure than ever. […]
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PARIS — Throughout a big win over France in women’s water polo action on Friday at the Aquatic Centre in the 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the United States was cheered on by a display of star power that sometimes is only reserved for the most marquee of sports. There was celebrity chef Guy Fieri, USOPC […]
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PARIS — There are things the IOC would like you to believe about the Olympic Games that are not true — they are not harbingers of a better world with peace and not war. They are not a place where politics does not matter. They are not a place where there is an equal playing […]
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PARIS — At every Olympic Games, one of the sayings is that the Games don’t get truly underway until the home country has something to cheer about. This summer in Paris, the French public have had plenty to cheer about, which is one of the reasons why to this point the Games has been an […]
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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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