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The IOC is inherently a conservative enterprise given to lip service regarding change. The IOC needs real change. Like the pretty pictures from Paris last summer, the veneer suggests all is well in the Olympic landscape. But no. The issues and fissures are real 3 Wire Sports

Larry Buendorf was a genuine American hero. The Olympic landscape has lost one of the good guys. One of the really good guys 3 Wire Sports bit.ly/3DrYX8V

Big win for IOC and USOPC. $3b for 2033-36. This is why SLC got 2034. Fascinating that outgoing IOC president Bach swung the deal but whoever is elected new president March 20 will sign it

I wonder same TBH

What might have been: IOC at its assembly briefly remembers Patrick Baumann, and why his shocking, sudden 2018 death reverberates, still – with a warning for what is to come in arguably its most consequential presidential election ever 3 Wire Sports bit.ly/4iTs8k4

From Lausanne, and ... timing: municipal council approves petition Tuesday to change name of lakefront Juan Antonio Samaranch Stadium due to what activists assert is former IOC president's 'shameful and fascist' past. From newspaper 24 Heures bit.ly/4kZdBVRthe

IOC The Olympic Games name outgoing president Thomas Bach ‘honorary president for life,’ said a ‘fitting tribute’ – after 12 years in office, he gets a standing ovation from members at assembly in Greece

.LA28 chair Casey Wasserman says of his meetings with Donald J. Trump: Games will deliver. He also, referring to Jan fires, tells IOC The Olympic Games assembly: 'Everybody loves a comeback story. When the world comes to LA in 2028, ours will be on full display.'

After the Jan wildfires, 'I just want to send a message of motivation and encouragement,' former Laker Pau Gasol says amid LA28 time Thurs at IOC The Olympic Games assembly

.LA28 chair Casey Wasserman says State Dept officials fully on board with complexities of getting athletes and delegation into USA for Games. He says 'I don't anticipate any problems' to have delegations 'in full force'

Kirsty Coventry elected 10th IOC president

The IOC The Olympic Games election, many expected, would go several rounds. It went - one. Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe will be IOC's first female (and first African) president, taking over from Thomas Bach. Her 6-year-old daughter: 'Mom, you won!' 3 Wire Sports bit.ly/4kBtqCd

At news conference closing historic 144th session, current president Thomas Bach says he is 'happy, relaxed and relieved.' He also says, most true: 'In the Olympic movement, the task is never accomplished, finished. There are always open questions'

This is the dilemma The Olympic Games has to confront This is the way we experience sports now. We live it, live. Then we re-live it, online. Like this. But you would never see IOC say, send your fan videos so we can share because of rights-holder priorities. This has to change …

Lovely for Rob and what a beautiful note of tribute in this column to his wife, Hyla

The brothers killed their parents with shotguns at close range. They were convicted of murder and sentenced to prison. That’s where they belong

Imane Khelif, the IOC, World Boxing and mandatory sex testing bit.ly/4krL374

Thank you. Fixed!

New release from IBA calling World Boxing move to mandatory sex testing sparked by Imane Khelif (in particular) eligibility 'the only right approach.' See it at bit.ly/3ZN3Z7J It also includes this call for an apology: