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US Olympic swimming team trials split into two due to COVID-19

  • Tokyo 2020

USA Swimming, in partnership with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), has announced

warm-up pool and athlete seating areas, the decision was made to divide the event into two," said a USA

To keep numbers down, USA Swimming has adjusted the trials time standard to the current 41st seeded time


FIFA hope to confirm host cities for 2026 World Cup later this year

  • Football

FIFA hopes to confirm host cities for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada by the final quarter of this year, should the coronavirus pandemic allow.

meetings with each stadium to discuss infrastructural aspects from the end of February 2021 onwards," USA


Exclusive: Weightlifting’s new anti-doping rules are "stronger and fairer" says IWF - despite complaints

  • Weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has made substantial changes to its anti-doping rules, leading to complaints from some nations of a lack of transparency and of "loosening when it should be tightening" the policing of multiple offenders.

following doping and corruption scandals in the sport ©Getty ImagesPhil Andrews, chief executive of USA

previously.There has been "a loosening rather than the tightening of anti-doping rules", according to USA


USA Basketball send out Tokyo 2020 invitations to 60 players amid NBA uncertainty

  • Tokyo 2020

USA Basketball has reportedly sent out invitations to 60 players interested in competing at this year's

 A pool of between 40 and 50 players will likely be revealed by USA Basketball in the coming weeks.The

Games.Bam Adebayo of Miami Heat is thought to be among the players sent an invite for Tokyo 2020 by USA


USA Volleyball beach ParaVolley programme boosted by $100,000 donation

  • Volleyball News

Hickory Point Beach is to become the national training site for the USA Volleyball (USAV) beach ParaVolley

The growth of Beach ParaVolley is a huge priority for USA Volleyball as this new discipline expands globally

gold and silver in beach ParaVolley at the 2019 World ParaVolley Beach World Series event in Pingtan ©USA

We are honoured to support this worthy cause and provide some seed funding for the USA Volleyball beach

Hickory Point Beach and some additional beach ParaVolley programme funding, I look forward to seeing Team USA


Former USOC executive director Pittenger dies aged 95

  • PASO

Former United States Olympic Committee (USOC) executive director Baaron Pittenger has died aged 95.

 He left USOC in 1990 to become USA Hockey executive director until 1993, then going on to chair

His legacy endures there, as it does in our aspiration to serve the athletes of Team USA and forward


USA Boxing convert department store into training facility in preparation for Tokyo 2020

  • Boxing

USA Boxing is holding a training camp in preparation for this year's Olympics in Tokyo in an abandoned

 In order to adequately prepare for the Games, USA Boxing staff moved training equipment into a

hands and established a training space that can properly accommodate our team’s training needs," said USA

 USA Boxing executive director Mike McAtee also revealed the camp is being held with strict COVID

 Virginia Fuchs is among the participants at the USA Boxing training camp ©USA BoxingThe camp began

 Led by USA Boxing national head coach Billy Walsh and national strength and conditioning coach



USA Weightlifting post profit in 2020 despite challenges posed by pandemic

  • Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting has announced a profit of $925,000 (£680,000/€765,000) for 2020 despite disruption

challenges of the pandemic.USA Weightlifting thanked sponsors and partners for their support during 2020 ©USA

USA Weightlifting said less than two per cent of its income comes from Government or National Olympic


Vogt wins first Women's Monobob World Series race in Park City

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Nicole Vogt was a convincing winner of the first of three International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) Women's Monobob World Series races in Park City.

 Vogt is also pilot of the two-woman USA-3 bobsled this season, having returned from hand surgery.Women's


USA Cricket outlines timeline for Board elections

  • Non-Olympic Sports

USA Cricket has outlined the provisional timeline for the national governing body’s delayed Board elections

USA Cricket approved a resolution last month to delay the elections, with a membership portal planned

We are conscious of the community interest in the USA Cricket Board elections and want to ensure that

USA Cricket has outlined its election timeline ©USA CricketUnder the provisional timeline a call for

deadline for nominations will fall on February 14, one day prior to the cut-off date for people to join USA


Xiao and Moses to join US Congressional panel overseeing USOPC reform

  • PASO

Han Xiao, Karin Korb, Patty Cisneros Prevo and Edwin Moses are among the latest confirmed appointments to a Congressional Commission established by the Empowering Olympic and Amateur Athletes Act which will examine the United States Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

reviewing the many qualified candidates, we are pleased to announce the appointment of four former Team USA

implemented.The USOPC had come under fire following the sexual abuse scandal involving disgraced former USA



Olympic champion Keller charged in connection with US Capitol riot

  • Swimming

Klete Keller has been charged with three federal offences after footage showed the Olympic swimming gold medallist among a crowd that stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. last week.

than 50 are reported to have been injured.Both the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA


Olympic swimming gold medallist Keller identified at US Capitol riot

  • Swimming

Olympic swimming gold medallist Klete Keller has been identified as part of the group which stormed the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. last week - wearing United States Olympic apparel.

 Klete Keller wearing his USA swim jacket and fighting police pic.twitter.com/cccKFnJOff— Cgsg52008

 There have been calls for both USA Swimming and the USOPC to take action against Keller, who could