Olympics

LA28 will today host a series of model Olympic & Paralympic Games for youth athletes around L.A. The series of events will take place at 10 youth centers across the city with over 1,000 children participating in opening and closing ceremonies, sports activities and demonstrations by Olympians and Paralympians....

There is now “just one unidentified contender in the race to host a Winter Games,” joining Salt Lake City; Sapporo, Japan; Vancouver, Canada; along with a “pair of new bidders,” Sweden and Switzerland, according to Lisa Roche of the DESERET NEWS. IOC Olympic Games Exec Dir Christophe Dubi had...

French police yesterday searched the Paris Olympic organizers’ headquarters as “ part of corruption investigations into contracts linked to the Games ,” marking the “third straight time graft allegations have dogged a Summer Olympics,” according to Charlton & Dunbar of the AP. Yesterday’s search and “other related raids were...

French investigators "searched the headquarters" of the 2024 Paris Games organizers today "in a probe into suspected corruption." The Paris organizing committee said it is "cooperating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations," but "would not comment further." Paris "becomes the third straight Summer Games organizer implicated in investigations...

French investigators "searched the headquarters" of the 2024 Paris Games organizers today "in a probe into suspected corruption." The Paris organizing committee said it is "cooperating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations," but "would not comment further." Paris "becomes the third straight Summer Games organizer implicated in investigations...

Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games President & CEO Fraser Bullock said the city is “willing to host” either the 2030 or 2034 Winter Games based on what is "in the best interest of the Olympic and Paralympic movements and Utah,” according to Lisa Riley Roche of the...

Sweden is "moving closer to a bid to host the Winter Olympics for the first time" in what is shaping up to be a "race for the 2030 Games with only one obvious candidate." Following a "four-month feasibility study," Swedish sports officials said that there is a "desire for...

USA Gymnastics will hold its 2024 Olympic Trials at Minneapolis's Target Center, serving as the capper to a "nine-day event expected to draw 6,000 participants to Minneapolis," according to a front-page piece by Rachel Blount of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE. The arena also will hold the U.S. championships for...

David D’Alessandro Former CEO of John Hancock Financial Services “He’s actually one of the funnier guys I know. People don’t fully appreciate that. He’s also the only Olympic official I’ve ever met who actually bought me lunch. In New York, as I...

Dick Pound was not afraid to use a direct approach to handling Olympic sponsorship drama. Take, for example, his solution to the credit card wars. After American Express turned down an offer to be the Olympics’ global credit card sponsor in 1985, rival Visa swooped in...