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Making sports happen requires a massive investment of resources and isolation which is cool until you look at a COVID-19 dashboard
An American sports league may show the way forward for the Olympics, but is it even worth it at this point?

June 2020

What if the benefit to delaying Tokyo 2020 is actually felt by social causes in Japan?
For the Japanese LGBTQ community, delaying the Olympics means more eyes on their fight for rights in one of the world's most conservative countries…

March 2020

BREAKING: For the first time since 1944 the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony will not go on as scheduled
The conclusion that everyone knew was coming played out to completion with the Olympics being moved from July-August 2020
The IOC will make a decision on Tokyo 2020 in the next four weeks, which is understandable, but in that time people around the world are…
What happens when the real world inescapably seeps into the Olympic bubble? Two different ideas of decisive action
If the Olympic Movement is about centering athletes, why do some athletes feel like they are being hung out to dry amid a global pandemic?
The IOC continues to shore up support for holding Tokyo 2020 as is, even as athletes question the strategy.
The Olympics are on their own in the sporting world and are going to wait until the last possible moment to make a decision
No one can tell the IOC what to do, which lays bare the stark reality of the situation surrounding Tokyo 2020
The Olympics want to tell you everything is going ahead as scheduled despite the world locking itself up to stop COVID-19
The demands of a sporting event with billions in profit that sustain four years of elite sport are increasingly at odds with the reality of social…

February 2020

Mustapha Berraf is out as Algerian Olympic Committee President and says he now will dedicate himself to ANOCA
Berraf had been facing scandals on two fronts, and resigned this week from his domestic post
They oppose the Olympic Games and Capitalism itself. Are they leading a socialist revolution against the IOC?
Jules Boykoff’s new book looks at a potential transnational protest movement in the vein of American socialist thought.

November 2019

They took a bus for five days and were rewarded with a heart-stopping final
Flamengo supporters took to a bus to make it to the Libertadores final after a dispute over public transportation prices paralyzed Chile, the original…
It is time for a "family meeting" in Abuja, but this time there is the IOC President, some anonymous emails, and a whole lot of still…
ANOCA will open its headquarters this week, and African Olympic leaders are calling for a meeting to speak about the ongoing scandals
Somewhere some Olympic fanatic is going to get the experience of a lifetime thanks to the IOC and Silicon Valley teaming up
The IOC's newest potential global sponsor is the result of carefully laid breadcrumbs and a signal of what's to come for the organization
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