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Greece hands Olympic flame to 2024 Paris Games hosts
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 19 hours agoGreece on Friday handed over the Olympic flame of the 2024 Games to Paris organisers in a ceremony at the Athens marble stadium where the competition was...
With Winter Olympics host options dwindling, Salt Lake City is lined up for 2034 — and maybe beyond
The Salt Lake Tribune· 19 minutes agoLindsey Vonn was 17, awestruck by her competition and feeling the weight of her first Olympic Winter...
The cost-benefit analysis of hosting the Olympics
The Week via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoAthens, Greece, home of the first-ever modern Olympics, spent $15 billion in 2004, while Sydney spent $4.6 billion in 2000 and Rio de Janeiro spent $20...
'Ban them all.' With Paris Games looming, Chinese doping scandal rocks Olympic sport
WUSF 89.7· 5 days agoLess than a hundred days before the opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Games, a new doping...
Soccer tournament for players with disabilities kicks off in Beijing
China Daily· 1 day agoA grassroot soccer event for disabled players featuring 36 teams from across China for a five-day tournament kicked off in Beijing on Monday. Sponsored by Japan's Mitsubishi ...
Chinese generosity in lead-up to cleared doping tests reflects its growing influence on WADA
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoIn the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency signed off on clearing 23 Chinese swimmers of...
China Doping-Money
Idaho State Journal· 5 days agoFILE - The Chinese and the Olympic flag wave during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022 ...
How can brands effectively reach the Olympic audience with connected TV advertising?
The Drum· 4 days agoWith Paris 2024 just around the corner, Martin Wexler, (SVP channel partnerships at Acxiom),...
Thunderbirds highlight air show at Joint Base Charleston
Stars and Stripes· 6 days agoThousands of spectators trained their eyes to the sky on Saturday for Day 1 of the Charleston...
Chinese doping case sparks unusually harsh spat between global and US drug-fighting agencies
Associated Press· 7 days agoThe allegation was made after WADA acknowledged it had cleared 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned heart medication to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in ...