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Apr 25 2024
News
Georgia gymnastics goes outside the box with co-coaches; One with ties to Simone Biles
Georgia gymnastics is moving into a new era with co-head coaches, promoting a current assistant coach and pairing him with a well-known personal coach who has worked with world class athletes in the sport. Cecile Canqueteau-Landi, coach of four-time Olympic gold medal winner Simone Biles, and Bulldogs assistant Ryan Roberts will together try to make Georgia a championship contender once again
Athens Banner-HeraldApr 12 2024
News
The IOC delegation visiting proposed venues for a 2034 Winter Games in Utah made their final stop Friday
Karl Stoss, Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games chair, Colin Hilton, Olympic Legacy Foundation president and CEO, and Fraser Bullock, president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games, remark on an Austrian flag flying as members of the International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission, IOC, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic leaders arrive to tour the Utah
Deseret NewsFeb 18 2022
Opinion
Worst. Olympics. Ever.
Ten days ago, this newsletter noted that the opening days of the Genocide Games — er, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — had generated a “cataclysmic loss of audience” for NBC. Over the past week or so, the audience size hasn’t gotten any better — and it’s not just here in the United States:
Television ratings for the Beijing Olympics are off by 50 percent from PyeongChang levels in
Jim GeraghtyNov 29 2023
News
International Olympic Committee taps Salt Lake City as likely host of Games of 2034
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday invited Salt Lake City into another phase of the discussions about hosting a second Winter Olympics in the state, a landmark moment in the efforts to return the Games to Utah that have been underway for much of the time since the cauldron was extinguished on the 2002 Winter Olympics. The IOC and the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games,
Park RecordNov 29 2023
News
Utah leaders say Salt Lake City is ready and able to host 2034 Olympics
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders and Olympic boosters hugged and cheered when the International Olympic Committee announced Salt Lake City as a "preferred host" for the 2034 Winter Games. "The world’s coming back to Utah and we’re going to put on an amazing party!" exclaimed Governor Spencer Cox. In an understated announcement from Paris that was broadcast to a crowd gathered outside the Salt
FOX 13 Salt Lake CityNov 29 2023
News
Winter Olympics set to return to Salt Lake City in 2034 as IOC enters talks
The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that it is entering into "targeted dialogue" with Salt Lake City officials over plans to host the 2034 Winter Olympics − a significant move that all but guarantees the Games' return to Utah a little more than a decade from now. Karl Stoss, the chair of the future host commission for the Winter Games, said in a news conference that the IOC
"USA Today" ContributorFeb 10 2022
Opinion
China’s Shameful Olympics
The greatest athletes in the world have now gathered to compete in the 24th Olympic Winter Games. Usually, the American people await this event with enthusiasm and excitement. This year, we await it with disgust.
This year’s games will be held in the People’s Republic of China, a Communist nation that enslaves workers, imprisons children in concentration camps, forcefully sterilizes and
Tom CottonApr 24 2024
News
The World’s Best Beers — World Beer Cup Announces 2024 Winners
Often referred to as “The Olympics of Beer Competitions,” the World Beer Cup is the largest and most prestigious beer competition in the world. Gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded across 110 beer styles at the 2024 World Beer Cup at a ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 24, 2024. The World Beer Cup is hosted by the Brewers Association, the national association representing small and
ForbesApr 18 2024
News
Diving World Cup: Tom Daley and Noah Williams take silver in men's synchronised 10m
Great Britain's Tom Daley and Noah Williams took silver in the men's synchronised 10m event at the Diving World Cup in Xi'an, China. The duo scored 440.37 points to finish behind Hao Yang and Junjie Lian of China. Daley and Williams won gold in the same event at the Berlin World Cup in March, and claimed silver at February's World Championships. Daley, 29, is in line to compete at his fifth
BBC NewsApr 22 2024
News
China opposes Japan prime minister's offering at Yasukuni shrine
BEIJING, April 22 (Reuters) - China expressed strong opposition on Monday to a ritual offering made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that China and South Korea view as a symbol of Japan's former military aggression. Kishida made a bonsai offering at the Yasukuni Shrine on Sunday, Japanese media said, showing live footage of a wooden plaque with the
Reuters