Op Ed
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September 21, 2016
(ATR) The IOC has yet to cure the malaise that has made a shambles out of the Olympic bid process.
CONI President Giovanni Malago (L) and Rome 2024 Committee President Luca C...
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September 20, 2016
While it is not my normal practice to conduct discussions in the media, the comments made this week and published in Around the Rings, by my International Olympic Committee-co...
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September 19, 2016
Gerardo Werthein (Getty Images)
(ATR) As we look forward to forthcoming discussions in Lausanne and elsewhere on strengthening the fight against doping in the world of sport,...
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September 15, 2016
Is a $10 billion partnership enough to guarantee at least one Olympics on home soil? How about three-quarters of that amount, which is what the American TV network NBC has pai...
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August 18, 2016
(ATR) The Pat Hickey scandal triggers consequences across the Olympic Movement.
Police show up at Hickey's hotel room at the Windsor Marapendi. (ESPN Brazil)
In a dawn rai...
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August 13, 2016
Halfway through the Games, let’s look at the Olympics as the original peace-through-sport movement. Today, does its idealistic halo control international conflict, invasions,...
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August 08, 2016
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis is a nine-time Olympic gold medalist. (ATR)
There have been few moments in my life as memorable as competing in the 1984 O...
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August 07, 2016
The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio de Janeiro marks my last day as a 16-year-old. In an audience where the middle-aged dominate, I thought I’d offer my pennies on the first ...
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August 05, 2016
Brazil is ready to do the Games as they have never been done before.
Rio 2016 president Carlos Nuzman
Tonight, at the Opening Ceremony of the first ever Olympic Games in ...
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August 05, 2016
To suggest Atlanta was a long shot to win the bid to host the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games would grossly misstate the case even by the most hyperbolic standards. What most as...
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August 02, 2016
Written for Around the Rings By George Hirthler
The modern Olympic Movement seldom tells its origin story—and that’s a shame. Because it’s a story that could serve as an i...
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July 27, 2016
IOC president at breakfast with athletes. (IOC/Ian Jones)
(ATR) The sun is shining in Rio de Janeiro as IOC president Thomas Bach arrives for a month in the Olympic city.
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