● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) – the international federation for aquatic sports – is at the same time both celebrated and reviled. Founded in 1908, it is […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● In all eight editions of his brilliant The Complete Book of the Olympics, famed historian David Wallechinsky ended his review of the 1968 men’s 200 meters and the […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● There are plenty of people who will tell you the International Olympic Committee is deaf. Not this time. Although the preparations for Tokyo 2020 were expected to be […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● For those of a certain age, who lived through a prior crisis that threatened the existence of the Olympic Games, it was simply staggering to hear International Olympic […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● Almost as soon as the announcement that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be delayed by a year, estimates began appearing of the cost of postponement. The […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● France’s Guy Drut is best known as the 1976 Olympic champion in the 110 m hurdles and a a controversial politician in his home country. He served as […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden Along with the sunshine There’s gotta be a little rain some time ~ from the 1970 Grammy […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The joint announcement by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad will be celebrated in 2021 rather than […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● The coronavirus is a major public-health crisis which is having impacts in many countries and is causing the cancellation, delay or implosion of mass gatherings, a list that […]
● From our sister site, TheSportsExaminer.com ● This week’s headlines were all about comments from the senior member of the International Olympic Committee – not its President – that this summer’s Tokyo Games could be […]
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