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Athletics World Champions are Getting Older
Track and field world champions are getting older again, after a near decade-long spell at the start of the millennium when their average age was getting progressively younger. Usain Bolt's three gold...
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Bach, Tokyo 2020 and Wrestling Bookmakers Favorites for Buenos Aires
London bookmakers William Hill have installed Germany’s long-serving International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Thomas Bach as clear favorite to succeed Jacques Rogge as the new leader of the...
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A Green and Safe Tokyo Games Question Mark
As the IOC prepares to vote on the 2020 Olympic Games’ host city in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, experts are voicing increasing concern about the full extent of the environmental legacy of the 2011...
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2020 Summer Olympic Host Cities All on Shaky Legs
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is apparently not all that concerned with the ongoing events in nearby Syria. He is leading Istanbul 2020′s delegation and heading to Buenos Aires,...
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IOC Reaching New Scale of Media Operation for 2020 Games Location Announcement
When some years ago the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a session to discuss the future of the Olympic movement, there was a group of a few journalists reporting from these discussions and...
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Wrestling Floors Opponents with First Round Victory
BUENOS AIRES, Brazil - Wrestling has retained its place on the Olympic sports program after winning a clear-cut victory over its two rivals today in the Argentinean capital. On a day described by Nenad...
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Outgoing IOC President Jacques Rogges Praised for Calm Leadership
Succeeding Juan Antonio Samaranch as IOC President was a tall order. Jacques Rogge, the second Belgian to hold the office, may have been these last 12 years a clarinet by comparison to his...
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How Tokyo 2020 Won Its Olympics, Paralympics Bids Despite Fukushima
BUENOS AIRES, Brazil — Money, technical capacity, infrastructure and a sprinkling of striking signature developments, such as the $1.5 billion Zaha Hadid-designed Kasumigaoka Stadium and Tokyo Bay’s...
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Who Do You Love?
As circuses go, this one is most excellent. The question: who will be the next ringleader and where is the next tent to be pitched? Here Friday morning in the corner of the Hilton Hotel lobby one could...
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Bach Must Now Turn to Future After Being Winner ‘Majority of People’ Wanted
By David Owen on Sept. 10, 2013 in Buenos Aires - “Ouffff!” The first word uttered by Thomas Bach as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, at around 12.42 p.m. today, may not have been very...
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In the Warm Glow of Congratulations, Thomas Bach Should be Taking a Cold...
Apparent equilibrium of the IOC can be elusory. Thomas Bach, the predicted newly elected President from Germany, will need to be bold, brave and even belligerent, if he is to force the world’s foremost...
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How Extensive Is the Power of Sheikh Ahmad?
David Miller Aires talks exclusively to the influential Kuwaiti Sheikh Fahad, killed at the start of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1991, was my close Olympic friend, a race horse owner and football...
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USOC Adds Sexual Orientation to Non-Discrimination Policy Ahead of Sochi 2014
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has revised its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, a move that has been interpreted as a reaction to Russian anti-gay laws which are...
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Glasgow 2014 Queen’s Baton Set To Be Center of Controversy When Arrives in...
Confusion is set to reign when the Queen’s Baton for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games arrives in Lahore tomorrow, with two rival bodies claiming that they should be hosting the occasion. Two bodies...
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Putin One Clever Guy on Gay Rights
It has been just over four months since Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a measure that purports to ban “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” to those under 18. In the West,...
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Karate Vows To Keep Trying To Get in Olympics Despite Frustration With Process
Karate has vowed not to give up on its dream of joining the Olympic program despite its failure to even get on the shortlist for 2020 following a controversial process that cost the sport $553,000....
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Report on IOC President’s Third Day Of Visit To Sochi
The Russian International Olympic University was hailed “a great legacy project of Sochi 2014” by Thomas Bach on the third day of the IOC President’s visit to the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic...
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IOC President Expresses Confidence in Sochi 2014 Winter Games
IOC President Thomas Bach has expressed confidence that the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games next February would be “excellent, unique and a perfect stage for the athletes to perform at their best.”...
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‘Uniqueness Of Olympics Has To Be Respected’ Warns IOC As Bach Holds Summit...
A commission has been set-up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to investigate the increasingly crowded sporting calendar but which has already decreed that the Olympics must remain the most...
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Stockholm Places Bid For 2022 Winter Olympics, Paralympics
Stockholm has become the sixth city to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. One day after the citizens of Munich and its potential partner cities voted against bidding, the Swedish Olympic Committee...
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