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Reform the IOC Bid Process — This Doesn’t Work
By Alan Abrahamson | 4-3-2017
The campaign for the 2024 (and, maybe, 2028) Summer Olympic Games moves this coming week into its next phase. It’s...
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Not Cool Anymore: Hockey Guys Being Hockey Guys
By Alan Abrahamson | 4-3-2017
Three years ago at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, with the women’s gold-medal ice hockey game between the United States...
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A 2024 Dose of — Common Sense
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-27-2017
Back in the day, a young person who was maybe having a little trouble understanding a concept might meet up...
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Feeling 22, and Everything is so All Right
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-20-2017
The American racer Mikaela Shiffrin on Friday clinched enough points to win the fancy crystal globe that goes to the...
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Could it be More Plain? IOC Needs Time, Stability
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-20-2017
The International Olympic Committee, like the Kremlin, speaks in code.
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No-brainer: Only Way to Make Agenda 2020 Real
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-20-2017
Tony Estanguet, the co-president of the Paris 2024 bid, was giving an interview to the Reuters correspondent Julien Pretot in mid-December when...
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Real and Significant Threats to the IOC
By AISMS Admin | 3-6-2017
If Frankie Fredericks remains in position as chairperson of the International Olympic Committee’s 2024 evaluation commission past, say, Tuesday, then...
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Social Media and the Referendum: Made for Sharing
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-6-2017
Snap Inc., the Venice, California-based parent company of Snapchat, went public Thursday. It’s now worth $34 billion.
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A Theater-of-the-absurd Hearing in Congress
By Alan Abrahamson | 3-6-2017
You know what was missing from Tuesday’s theater-of-the-absurd hearing in Congress on what was billed as “ways to improve and strengthen the...
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When the Presumption of Innocence Meets La-La Land
By Alan Abrahamson | 2-27-2017
It’s Oscar Sunday here in Los Angeles. “La La Land” is expected to clean up.
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