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Apr 11 2024
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Utah Olympics organizers lay out vision for 2034 Winter Games
Members of the International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission will be touring the greater Salt Lake City area this week. For three days, they will make the rounds to the 13 arenas, mountains and parking lots expected to be used as venues if Utah hosts the 2034 Winter Games. As they do, Sarah Hirshland, the CEO of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, urged them to look
The Salt Lake TribuneJul 20 2021
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Tokyo Olympics ready to start, but Covid overshadows the world’s greatest sports spectacle
After a one-year delay, weeks of negative headlines and public backlash, the Tokyo Olympics are set to open Friday.
But that’s still a maybe, as Covid-19 continues to cause a disturbance throughout Japan.
It’s been quite the task for the International Olympic Committee to get to this point. The Tokyo Olympics was postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic. But following a vaccine,
CNBCJul 22 2021
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Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony director fired over 1998 Holocaust joke
The director of the Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony was fired Thursday over a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.
Kentaro Kobayashi was ousted just a day before the pandemic-delayed Games were set to officially kickoff Friday with an elaborate ceremony he helped create, the latest in a long list of setbacks to hit the event.
Kobayashi was fired “after a joke he
NBC News (Online)Apr 10 2024
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Nike pins hopes on Olympics in race to take back market share
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ReutersApr 14 2024
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In hunt for ‘white elephants’ in Utah, Olympic commission comes up empty-handed
Karl Stoss and a group of eight other international notables went on safari last week around Salt Lake City. The target of their hunt? The not-so-elusive “white elephants.” That’s the Future Host Commission chairman’s term for venues built for an Olympics that afterward sit unused or in disrepair. Yet as he and the rest of his team wrapped up their visit Saturday, Stoss reported that despite
The Salt Lake TribuneMar 24 2020
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2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Postponed
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach have agreed to postpone the summer Olympics in Tokyo amid the spread of the coronavirus.
The Olympics, which will still be dubbed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, will be delayed for about one year.
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People walk past Japan’s national flags in a shopping district in Tokyo
Colorado Springs GazetteApr 09 2024
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Max Whitlock says Paris 2024 will be his final Olympic Games
Three-time gold medallist Max Whitlock says Paris 2024 will be his final Olympic Games. The 31-year-old, who has won 32 major international medals, is Britain's most successful gymnast. Whitlock could become the first gymnast in history to win four Olympic medals on the same apparatus if he adds to his two golds and a bronze on the pommel horse at this summer's Games. "This decision now feels
BBC NewsApr 16 2024
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Jrue Holiday, Jayson Tatum help complete USA Basketball’s Paris Olympics roster
USA Basketball has gotten confirmations from 12 players — James, Curry, Durant, Bam Adebayo, Devin Booker, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards, and Kawhi Leonard — that they will accept invitations to be on the Olympic roster, three people with knowledge of the decisions said. That group includes seven previous gold medalists. LeBron James
The Boston GlobeApr 16 2024
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Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday reportedly make USA Basketball roster for Paris Olympics
BOSTON -- The Celtics hope to play basketball well into the summer as they look to bring home an NBA championship. But Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday will be playing even more ball on the Olympic stage when the NBA season wraps up. Both Tatum and Holiday have made the initial USA Basketball roster for the 2024 Olympic games in Paris, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Monday night. Both were
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