The deadline for the International Olympic Committee Presidential election passed this week, with incumbent Thomas Bach the only candidate and set to be confirmed for a further four-year term at the IOC Session in Athens next March.
I was immediately struck by a somewhat revelatory line in a press release from the International Canoe Federation (ICF) last week regarding its proposed slate of events for Paris 2024.
We have heard a lot about how the International Federations' (IFs) finances have been hit by COVID-19 and the consequent postponement of Tokyo 2020; much less about the National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
With Olympic boxing, if not quite under threat then certainly the subject of serious scrutiny, it was heartening to hear the 35-year-old Rio super heavyweight silver medallist Joe Joyce explaining just how valuable his experience in amateur boxing, and particularly the Games, contributed to his shock conquest of the young British, Commonwealth and European champion Daniel Dubois at the weekend.
Speaking today to some of the people responsible for Rising Phoenix, the documentary about the Paralympic Games that came out on Netflix in August, it was gratifying to note that the excitement accompanying its arrival appears to have been sustained and amplified.
Olympians often link their current pain to past sporting injuries and high-performance training practices and techniques. Prior to the World Olympians Association (WOA) Olympians Health Study there had been limited credible research into the long-term health of retired elite athletes and no global studies.
I was once an attendee of the lunchtime chess club at my primary school, spending an adequate amount of time there to learn the rules and play a few casual matches before I gave in to the draw of joining my friends outside.
Forty years ago this week in New Orleans, Sugar Ray Leonard stopped Roberto Durán to regain the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title.
Incumbent Marisol Casado and Mads Freund are this week entering the final stage of their respective campaigns for the Presidency of World Triathlon.
I have been pining for Japan.
Not since Muhammad Ali and George Foreman Rumbled in the Jungle 46 years ago, or even since James J. Corbett knocked out Joe Choynski in the 27th round of a world heavyweight title slugfest on board a barge moored in San Francisco Bay in 1889, has there been a more unlikely setting for big fight than the one for this Saturday (November 28) night's blockbuster between Daniel Dubois and Olympic silver medallist Joe Joyce.
For me, Ryan Reynolds will always be Sandra Bullock's secretly minted minion in the 2009 US romantic comedy The Proposal, who agrees to marry his boss to prevent her being deported because her visa has run out, and ends up, well, reader, they fall in love.
My experience of coronavirus lockdown perked up considerably when the computer game Football Manager 2020 suddenly became available for free.
There has not been a lot of opportunity for new experiences this year, given much of the world’s population has spent the majority of 2020 living under restrictive measures.
This week, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has been in Tokyo for the first time since the pandemic.
The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam saw a number of important milestones, but one we still all benefit from today is revolutionising car parking. Like other cities around Europe in the late 1920s, the streets of Amsterdam were filling up fast with cars, and during the Games this issue was more pressing than ever, so organisers were forced to rack their brains in search of a solution. The allotted parking area next to the Olympic Stadium had room for a maximum of 2,000 vehicles, nowhere near enough to meet the demand during Games time. In response, the City Council provided a number of other sites that took parking capacity up to 3,500 vehicles and 2,000 bicycles. However, no sooner had one problem been solved than another was created: how were drivers and cyclists supposed to find their way to the new car parks? A solution was found in the shape of small blue panels with a white capital "P" in the middle. So it was that the international traffic sign for parking was born.
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Sixty years later, David Owen recounts the tale of cricket's first-ever tied Test match - an encounter between Australia and a West Indies side whose importance stretched far beyond the Antipodean summer of 1960-1961.
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