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USRowing Foundation

USRowing Creates Foundation to Assist Funding

USRowing has announced the formation of the USRowing Foundation. “The USRowing Foundation will be a separate 501c3 organization from the National Governing Body but will work shoulder-to-shoulder with USRowing to provide funding for our priorities and initiatives,” said USRowing Chief Executive Officer Amanda Kraus. “We have an incredible group that has signed on and we […]

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Aerial view of Paris with Eiffel tower and Seine river
Aerial view of Paris with Eiffel tower and Seine river

Paris 2024 Olympic Games Tickets Sale Starts December 1

Tickets for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris will go on sale December 1 with a new approach in which tickets will be obtainable from a single platform worldwide and will not be available through resellers for the first Olympic Games — Summer or Winter — that will have fans in attendance since the […]

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Spokane to Host USA Wrestling Women’s National Championships

USA Wrestling has selected Spokane, Washington, as host of the USA Wrestling Women’s National Championships for the next three years. The event includes competition in freestyle wrestling in eight age divisions and serves as the world team trials in women’s freestyle in four of those age levels. The local organizing committee for the event will […]

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Winter Olympics Salt Lake City
Georg Hackl of Germany speeds past an Olympic logo during a practice run for the men's singles luge at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Salt Lake City, Sapporo Presents Bids to Host 2030 Winter Olympics to IOC

Presentations made, the 2030 Olympic Winter Games bid groups from Salt Lake City, Utah, and Sapporo are now in wait-and-see mode. Both groups presented to the International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission on Tuesday morning. The virtual presentations are expected to be the final ones made the Future Host Commission before it decides which bid […]

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Aron McGuire: Driving USA Bobsled & Skeleton Through the Pandemic

  The last World Cup sliding event in North America was in 2019. All three North American tracks lost events — including world championship races in Whistler and Lake Placid — because of the pandemic, with international officials relocating those events to Europe and Asia. American and Canadian sliders spoke out about a wish for […]

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USA Swimming Track and Field

USA Swimming and USA Track & Field Select Agency to Lead Joint Effort

USA Swimming and USA Track & Field have named One & All as their agency of record to lead the organizations’ collective sponsorship sales efforts heading into the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Paris. “Our goal in this process was to identify an agency for the coming years that shares our values and […]

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2023 USA Gymnastics Championship

2023 USA Gymnastics Championships Headed to Tulsa

The 2023 USA Gymnastics Championships will take place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the BOK Center and Cox Business Center from June 20–24. The city will welcome more than 1,600 acrobatic, rhythmic, and trampoline and tumbling gymnasts along with hundreds of coaches, judges and support staff. The annual event determines national champions across the developmental and […]

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IBU Cup Awarded to Lake Placid for 2026

Lake Placid, New York, will host the 2026 International Biathlon Union Cup at Mt Van Hoevenberg at its new biathlon stadium and renovated competition area. The New York Olympic Regional Development Authority made the announcement on Monday after the new IBU Executive Board met in Salzburg this past week and announced the full calendar for […]

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Mascots Revealed for 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games

The 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic games have released their mascots for the upcoming events, which are less than two years away. The mascots are Phrygian caps, which represent freedom in France. The soft red cap, also known as a liberty cap, is an updated version of a hat worn in antiquity in places such […]

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5th Discipline Test
The International Modern Pentathlon Union is conducting three test sessions to determine whether it should consider changing its fifth discipline to obstacle racing. Photo courtesy UIPM World Pentathlon/Augustas Didžgalvis

Modern Pentathlon Adds Obstacle Racing as Discipline, Replacing Equestrian

The International Modern Pentathlon Union has added obstacle racing to the disciplines available for competition, clearing one of the pathways to place it in the spot of equestrian going forward in the UIPM’s attempt to gain entry into the 2028 Olympic Summer Games program. The saga of modern pentathlon has gone on since the 2020 […]

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