Seb Coe humiliated as Kirsty Coventry becomes new Olympics president
Kirsty Coventry elected as the 10th – and first female – president of the International Olympic Committee in its 131-year ...
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Sporting Contradictions: Athletes, the Olympics and Climate Change
The time has come for arguably the sporting world’s most famous mafia organisation to select its new chief.  The various turf ...
It's election day for the IOC choosing a new Olympics leader in a hard-to-call 7 candidate contest
A new president of the IOC will be elected Thursday as just the 10th leader in its 131-year history after one of the most ...
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Jordan Stolz finishes speed skating worlds with two silvers, one bronze
Only one American has won three golds at one Winter Olympics — fellow Wisconsin speed skater Eric Heiden. He swept the five speed skating events at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games in arguably the ...
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Race to become Olympics supremo on a knife edge
The race to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee reaches a climax on Thursday with Juan ...
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The Olympics faces an ‘existential threat’ in Trump and Putin’s new world order
This week's IOC presidential election takes place under a geopolitical storm cloud, with Russia plotting to start a rival ...
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It's election day for the IOC choosing a new Olympics leader in a hard-to-call 7 candidate contest
The winner will get an eight-year mandate with key issues including steering the Olympics on a smooth path ... Australia and the U.S. again, when the Winter Games return to Salt Lake City.