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Basketball official claims US violated Olympic Truce in 1998, report says

  • Basketball

Basketball official Goran Sašić has accused the United States of violating the Olympic Truce in 1998,

2024 ©Getty Images"They say that Russia violated the Olympic rules, but I want to emphasise that the United

States violated such rules 35 times, almost 20 countries, including Serbia, were attacked six days after

speaking in Perm at an event called "Russia - Country of Sports", added: "My country was sanctioned by a United



Paris 2024 spots on offer as Santiago set to stage Pan American Games

  • Santiago 2023

Places at next year’s Olympics in Paris will be on the line when Santiago stages the 19th edition of the Pan American Games.

field a 664-strong team to compete in all 39 sports.The largest delegation is set to come from the United

States having named 631 athletes to represent them at Santiago 2023, including 32 Olympic medalists.The


Big Air Chur Freeski and Snowboard World Cup gets FIS 100th anniversary season underway

  • Freestyle

Celebrations for the centenary season of the International Ski Federation (FIS) are set to get underway tomorrow with freestyle competitions in Switzerland scheduled to open the 2023-2024 campaign. 

the men’s side names to watch out for include Valentino Guseli of Australia, Sean Fitzsimons of the United

States, Sweden’s Sven Thorgren and Taiga Hasegawa of Japan.Britain's women's slopestyle world champion


Double US Olympian Egan on WADA Independent Observer team at Santiago 2023 Games

  • Santiago 2023

Two-time Olympic biathlete Clare Egan of the United States will be part of the World Anti-Doping Agency

flagbearer at the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, will be on WADA's Athlete Engagement team.The United

manager, education and awareness at Chile’s National Anti-Doping Agency, Stacy Spletzer-Jegen of the United

States, WADA senior manager, athlete engagement, and Uruguay’s Edna Serra, office manager, WADA Latin


Panam Sports makes two changes to Executive Committee at General Assembly

  • Santiago 2023

Susanne Lyons of the United States has been appointed as third vice-president of Panam Sports while Mexican

vice-president Keith Joseph of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who moves into Saldaña's position.Former United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee chair Lyons was then elected in, beating Nicaraguan Juan Santiago


Bud Somerville, US curling pioneer, dies aged 86

  • Curling

Curling icon Raymond "Bud" Somerville, who skipped the United States to their first world title, has

Somerville, born in Superior, Wisconsin, skipped the United States to a second world title in 1974.Ten

Curling Hall of Fame.Bud Somerville skipped the United States to two world curling titles and pioneered

demonstration sport.Curling became a medal sport at the Nagano 1998 Games, and Somerville coached the United

States men at Salt Lake City 2002.John Shuster, who in 2018 skipped the first U.S. curling team to win



AFC voices support for Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup bid as Indonesia pull out

  • World Cup

Saudi Arabia’s bid to secure the 2034 FIFA World Cup has received a huge boost after Indonesia withdrew from the race and joined fellow members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in supporting the Gulf state.

solidarity" that members were behind "a single bid from Saudi Arabia".The AFC has insisted that it is united

Cup ©AFCFIFA President Gianni Infantino spoke at the meeting where he called on AFC members to be "united

It’s always known that Asia is always united," said Al Misehal."

year, something which is a matter of formality.The 2026 World Cup with 48 teams will be hosted by the United

States, Canada and Mexico.




Philip Barker: Sixty years ago, the IOC voted for Olympics at high altitude

  • Inside the Blogs

Mumbai, the city which has been hosting the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session this past week, is a world away from the German spa town of Baden-Baden where the IOC met 60 years ago.

your deliberations in Baden Baden, I want to assure you of the warmest and most cordial welcome in the United

States," the President began."


Exclusive: World Lacrosse hopes for "creative solutions" to allow Haudenosaunee to play at LA 2028

  • Los Angeles 2028

World Lacrosse said it wants to find "creative solutions" to allow the Haudenosaunee to compete at Los Angeles 2028 when the sport returns to the Olympic programme.

four decades to help spread lacrosse around the world, and along with international advocates from the United

States, Canada, England, Australia, Ireland, and many more, we have finally achieved an important turning


Serbian NOC President says NBA star Jokić will play at Paris 2024

  • Basketball

Serbian Olympic Committee President Bozidar Maljkovic has said that basketball star Nikola Jokić will be part of the country's team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

valuable player twice.He won a silver medal with Serbia at the Rio 2016 Olympics after defeat to the United

States in the final, but decided to skip the Tokyo 2020 Games.This was after the Nuggets expressed concern


CAS sets date for IBA appeal against IOC decision to expel it from Olympics

  • Boxing

An appeal from the International Boxing Association (IBA) against its expulsion from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be heard in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on November 16, it was confirmed here today.

replace IBA had not yet emerged.World Boxing, a breakaway group whose founding members included the United

States and Great Britain, so far has only 16 members and attracted little support from Africa or Asia.IOC