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USA Luge has named Lauren Howe to communications manager, serving as the liaison between the National Governing Body and media. Howe is taking over for Sandy Caligiore, who recently announced he will be moving on from his work with USA Luge. Howe’s first exposure to luge was during her time working at Saint-Gobain, where she […]
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For the thousands of things an Olympic Games bid group must put together for the International Olympic Committee to take notice, there may be one key factor that is less high-profile than others. The IOC will never bring the Games to a site that lacks the venues, especially with its recent emphasis on venue sustainability. […]
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Salt Lake City’s hopes for another Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games may be delayed to 2034, the chair of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee hinted this week, because of a mix of commercial and political reasons beyond the bid group’s control. Susanne Lyons told The Associated Press on Thursday “if we have a preference, […]
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While always considered a long shot behind the three main favorites, the official bid by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) for the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games was ended on Wednesday after weeks of fighting between the potential regions that would have served as the centerpiece of the bid. Issues between Barcelona, host of […]
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Fort Worth, Texas, will be home to the 2026 World Cup Finals of dressage and jumping, announced the International Equestrian Federation on Wednesday. It will be the first time that the destination has hosted the event. The first dressage Final in the United States was in Los Angeles in 1995. The finals were cancelled in […]
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The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee closed the books on the Summer Games that were delayed one year by COVID this week, declaring the final cost at $13 billion — less than what it predicted last year but still twice as much as originally forecast when Tokyo won the bid in 2013. “We made an estimate, […]
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History will repeat itself when the 2024 Olympic Swimming Trials — which serve as the selection meet for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team — converge in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium from June 15–23, 2024. That event will mark 100 years since Indianapolis hosted the Olympic Swimming Trials for the 1924 Olympic Games in […]
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The heavy lifting at this point is done for the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games after two days of meetings with the International Olympic Committee this week, with the group’s President and Chief Executive Officer Fraser Bullock saying Wednesday “in this phase, we’ve now completed everything we need to do.” Now comes the […]
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The Association of National Olympic Committees and the Indonesia Olympic Committee have announced that Bali will host the second ANOC World Beach Games from August 5–12, 2023. Immediately following that, Bali will also host the XXVII ANOC General Assembly from August 13–15, 2023. After the success of the inaugural edition in Doha, Qatar, in 2019, […]
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Ninety-two percent of permanent venues used for the Olympic Games in the 21st century, and 85 percent of all permanent Olympic venues since 1896 remain in use, according to the International Olympic Committee. A recent IOC-commissioned report — “Over 125 years of Olympic venues: post-Games use” — is the first official inventory of the post-Games […]
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