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Who Should Light an LA 2024 Cauldron? Serena? Venus? Both?

There can be little doubt that Serena Williams is the best women’s tennis player of this and maybe any era. There...

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Enough Already with the Many Bid Hypocrisies

Let’s have fun with French. You don’t even need to speak French — much — to play along. I will play...

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Tear It Up, Throw It Away, Start All Over Again

Jacques Rogge served as president of the International Olympic Committee for 12 years, from 2001 until 2013. A key insider...

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Why Do the Olympics Generate Such Bad Press?

The Olympics can and should be a wonderful thing. Further, the International Olympic Committee naturally wants to be viewed in...

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What Would Jackie Robinson Want Us To Do?

A very few moments in sports have sparked change well beyond. For starters: Jesse Owens in Berlin, Jackie Robinson breaking...

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Who is America’s Most Famous Olympic Athlete?

After doing this now for nearly 20 years, when asking casual (American) fans of the Olympics to name the most...

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Haters: Cheerfully Taking Your $69.99 Now

For years and years, NBC has had the Olympics. Then the network doubled down, obtaining the rights to, among other events,...

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What the USOC Ought to Tell United Airlines

United Airlines is a key sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The Olympic values: respect, excellence and friendship. In light...

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NHL: Agenda 2020, Drop Dead

Agenda 2020, International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach’s would-be reform proposal, holds 40 points. The IOC members passed all 40, unanimously,...

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More of the Same (Paris), or Something New (LA)

The choice the International Olympic Committee is facing for the 2024 Summer Games, even as it considers a 2024/2028 deal...

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