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Dominant France face tougher test in second UIPM World Cup event in Los Angeles

  • Modern Pentathlon

season at Cairo earlier this month, are now focusing attention on the second World Cup due to start in Los

Angeles tomorrow.

prove more testing given the quality of athletes gathered at the Fairplex events complex in Pomona in Los

Angeles County.The 2017 men’s world champion, Jung Jinghwa of South Korea, is due to make his first

Lesun is in a strong men's field at the second UIPM World Cup of the season due to get underway in Los

Angeles this coming week ©UIPM"We return to Los Angeles with high expectations after a successful World

Angeles for the second time in 2028."


Potential host Denver claim can stage financially sustainable Winter Olympics if chosen for 2030

  • Milan Cortina 2026

The group tasked with weighing up support for a possible bid for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games from Denver have claimed they are prepared to create a new dynamic of hosting through private financing.

forward a bidder for the 2026 Games because they do not want to jeopardise the financial success of the 2028

Summer Olympic and Paralympics in Los Angeles.

likely be for the 2030 Winter Olympis as the USOC have already announced they would not jeopardise Los

Angeles 2028 by hosting another Games two years earlier ©Colorado.comEven at this early stag, there



Lawsuit accuses Ruggiero and USOC of preventing efforts to investigate sexual abuse

  • Gymnastics

Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission chair Angela Ruggiero claims that lawsuit allegations that she derailed efforts to investigate sexual abuse in the United States have been "pulled out of thin air".

the gymnastics scandal on behalf of USOC last month at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.Los Angeles

had been awarded the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games the previous month but a US bid for the

 She also served as chief strategy officer for the Los Angeles bid last year and as a member of


Chicago and Vancouver cut from joint North American bid for 2026 FIFA World Cup as potential cities confirmed

  • Football

Chicago and Vancouver have been omitted from the joint North American bid for the 2026 World Cup as 23 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico were included on the list of potential venues submitted to FIFA.

submission to FIFA, which came on the eve of the March 16 deadline.It includes 17 in the US, such as 2028

Olympic and Paralympic host city Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, New York and Washington D.C.United 2026


Opponents to 2030 Olympic bid claim Denver should hold public referendum

  • Milan Cortina 2026

Former Denver Governor Dick Lamm has claimed a referendum should be held to determine whether or the city should submit a bid for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

support for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Boston after the city had been nominated ahead of Los

Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C in January 2015.Their opposition resulted in the United States

Committee and the city agreeing to drop the bid in June of the same year.The USOC instead appointed Los

Angeles as its candidate city, which will now host the 2028 Games after Paris was awarded the event


Estanguet confident French public will embrace Paris 2024 Paralympics

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has claimed legacy plans currently being put in place by the Organising Committee will ensure that the promotion of the Paralympic Games in six years’ time will not prove to be a problem.

hosts of the Olympics and Paralympics at the IOC Session in Lima last September.At the same time, Los

Angeles was awarded the 2028 Games as part of an historic double-award.The inaugural Olympic and Paralympic


No Boston Olympics co-chairman to speak at public debate on possible Denver bid for 2030 Winter Games

  • Winter Olympics

A leading member of the campaign group which forced Boston to abandon its 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid has been confirmed among the speakers at the first public debate on whether Denver should enter the race for the 2030 winter race.

as the American nomination to bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in January 2015 ahead of Los

Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C.But the USOC and the city agreed to drop the bid in June following

 The USOC instead appointed Los Angeles as its candidate city, which will now host the 2028 Games


Budapest and Kyiv awarded editions of FISU Forum

  • Universiade

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has simultaneously awarded two editions of the FISU Forum.

win-win-win" quote matched International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's words when Paris and Los

Angeles were both awarded a Summer Olympic Games last year.Paris will play host in 2024 with the American

city following in 2028.The FISU Forum is a "premier educational event, with the mission of promoting




USOC chief executive Blackmun resigns as organisation announce changes to protect athletes from abuse

  • Olympics

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have confirmed the resignation of their chief executive Scott Blackmun, while announcing reforms to protect athletes from abuse.

at the Vancouver 2010, London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games.In addition he was heavily involved in Los

Angeles' successful bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.Susanne Lyons, a current board


Engine Shop acquire Terrence Burns founded consulting company

  • News

Engine Shop have confirmed the acquisition of the T Burns Sports Group, which was founded by Olympic bidding executive Terrence Burns.

he was establishing his own personal consulting company, after leaving Teneo Sports and his role at Los

Angeles 2028.The American worked as chief marketing director for the Los Angeles bid in 2016 and

Terrence Burns had worked as chief marketing director for the Los Angeles Olympic bid ©Getty ImagesBurns


Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 begin hiring process for key appointments

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 have each begun processes to hire key directors as their respective Organising

finance, a director of international relations and a director of human resources.Both Estanguet and Los

Angeles 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman have visited the Winter Olympic Games here.

 Los Angeles 2028 have not yet begun hiring for many of these positions because they are not necessary

summer.He said that the Board of Directors of the joint venture will consist of two appointments from Los

Angeles 2028 and two from the United States Olympic Committee.


Nick Butler: IOC must do more to prevent the New Norm of referendum defeats

  • Inside the Blogs

Hidden away behind the dominant themes of Russian doping, Pan-Korean unity and formulating some sort of reaction to sexual abuse scandals, last week’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here marked another staging post in the attempt to boost the appeal of hosting the Olympic Games.

party that everybody will remember for the rest of their lives.This is an argument they can win.Los Angeles

2024/2028 notably did this well by constantly harking-back about the benefits of the 1984 Games.

Both Paris and Los Angeles also spoke in language very different from the dry rhetoric which comes out