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Race for IOC Presidency Turns Increasingly Harsh as Decision Day Looms
With the winner instantly becoming the most prominent sports official in the world, the high-stakes campaign for president of the International Olympic Committee has turned increasingly harsh.Tariq Panja (The New York Times)
Loomis, Urlaub compete in Norway | Skiing
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UK olympic team spotted practicing for Synchronised Scaffolding in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, and revealing the new Official Team GB 2028 athletes' orange-themed uniform
#teamgb #olympicgames #LA28 #newcastle #uk
Republicans Call on Olympic Committee to Bar Transgender Women from Women’s Sports
A group of Republicans on Capitol Hill on Tuesday called on the organizers of the Olympics to “base eligibility for women’s athletic competitions on biological sex,” pushing to align the Games with an executive order President Trump signed last month…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
FBI offers $10m reward for ex-Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin
Ryan Wedding, 43, wanted for role in billion-dollar cross-border drug trafficking operation and several homicidesLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
Ronnie Delany, 1500 metre gold medallist in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, was born on 6 March 1935 in Arklow, Co Wicklow.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #RonnieDelaney #Arklow #Wicklow #OlympicGames #Melbourne #OnThisDay
From ‘Paddington’ To ‘Senna’ And ‘Call Of Duty’: Marketing & Promo Teams Recognized At 2025 Global Entertainment Awards — Watch Full Ceremony
#News #Fallout #GlobalEntertainmentAwards #Globo #OlympicGames #Senna #SquidGameSeason2
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2025 Global Entertainment Awards Winners Unveiled
Global Entertainment Awards 2025: Complete List Of Winners And Highlights From PortugalStewart Clarke (Deadline)
Readers reply: When did ‘pop culture’ as we know it begin?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Italy Short Track World Tour | Pro Sports
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Sports broadcasters end up giving rolling live coverage of a hostage situation at the 1972 #olympicgames in a landmark moment for #newsreporting.
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September 5 is based around the harrowing events of that date in 1972, when Black September took members of the Israeli olympic team host...dansaysitsalright.blogspot.com
Italy Short Track World Tour | National Sports
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[13:47] Boxing group to launch lawsuit over Olympic gender row
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has said it is to take legal action against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over the inclusion of Algeria's Imane Khelif and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting at last year's Olympic Games.
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#TheInternationalBoxingAssociation #theInternationalOlympicCommittee #Algeria #ImaneKhelif #Taiwan #LinYu_ting #lastyear's #OlympicGames
370,000 people live on the Sunshine Coast, and it apparently gets something like 15 million tourists a year. It is utterly bonkers that it doesn't have a faster-than-driving, frequent rail service. This project absolutely should proceed ASAP
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Federal MP renews push for Sunshine Coast rail project in limbo again abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/sun… #StateandTerritoryParliament #RailTransportIndustry #PublicTransport #Infrastructure #OlympicGames #Trains
Federal MP renews push for rail line to Maroochydore despite growing doubts
A Queensland MP says claims of a major cost blowout on a long-awaited Sunshine Coast rail upgrade are in stark contrast to every briefing he has had on the project.Josh Dye (ABC News)
Loomis strong in Austria | Sport
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Challenging How Germany Remembers the 1972 Olympics Attack
You don’t expect to see security guards roaming the foyer of the Hannover State Opera, a well-regarded, midsize opera house in a midsize central German city.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Switzerland IOC | National Sports
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Providing sailing news for sailors
There is not one path to the Olympic podium but the popular plan will be to participate in the inaugural Sailing Grand Slam (SGS) which consists of the four most iconic Olympic sailing events in Europe as well as a new regatta to be held at the Saili…BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Experience: I was a lifeguard at the Olympics
I don’t get starstruck, but you’d be crazy not to think it’s surreal when you’re standing next to someone like Michael PhelpsCharis McGowan (The Guardian)