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Former USADA general counsel Bock leading Trump lawsuit in Wisconsin

  • News

Lawyer Bill Bock, who played a key role in bringing down Lance Armstrong and was formerly the United

States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) general counsel, has taken a leading role in outgoing US President

Presidential election was rigged in favour of winner Joe Biden, and is taking legal action in numerous states

The United States Constitution prevents the rules in a Presidential Election from being changed at the


Shortlisted writer Ridley declines £3,000 prize in protest at The Rodchenkov Affair being named William Hill Sports Book of the Year

  • News

Acclaimed writer Ian Ridley has declined the £3,000 ($4,000/€3,300) prize for making the shortlist of five in this year’s William Hill Sports Book of the Year award "on moral and ethical grounds" following the decision to name The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire as the winner.

He fled to the United States, arranged by a film maker he was working with, where he entered a witness


Philip Barker: When the President has been challenged

  • Inside the Blogs

The deadline for the International Olympic Committee Presidential election passed this week, with incumbent Thomas Bach the only candidate and set to be confirmed for a further four-year term at the IOC Session in Athens next March.

four year period," said Coubertin.By 1901, it had been decided that the 1904 Games would be in the United

States of America.


Human Rights Watch calls on World Athletics to end sex testing

  • Athletics

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the end of sex testing from World Athletics, outlining how it violates the human rights of women in the Global South.

restrictions.Experts were also present on the panel including Michael van Gelderen of the Office of the United

Ukraine, Latin America, Africa, most of Asia and the Pacific Islands.The Global North refers to the United

States, Canada, most of Europe, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.Karkazis also


Powerlifter Jawad to launch fitness app in summer 2021 to aid disability well-being

  • Paralympics

A new disability fitness app, AccesserCise Fitness, is set to launch in the summer of 2021 after being developed by Britain's world champion Para-powerlifter, Ali Jawad.

of Persons with Disabilities yesterday and now AccesserCise is set to be initially released in the United

Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Jawad and his team look to deliver on



Whistleblower Rodchenkov wins prestigious prize for autobiography detailing Russian doping scandal

  • Olympics

Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov has been awarded the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year honour for his book recalling how the former laboratory chief exposed Russia’s state-sponsored doping regime.

s national anti-doping laboratory.Grigory Rodchenkov, pictured on screen, has been in hiding in the United

States and under witness protection since 2015 ©Getty ImagesThe autobiography also offers insight into

Last month, the Rodchenkov Act was approved by the United States Senate, giving officials the power to


Ruka to host opening event of FIS Aerials World Cup season

  • Freestyle

Ruka will host an International Ski Federation (FIS) Aerials World Cup event for the first time in 17 years as the Finnish venue opens the new season.

Xu Mengtao and world champion Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya of Belarus if she is to retain her title.The United

States’ Megan Nick and Ashley Caldwell will expect to challenge for podium positions during the season.Xu


New York City Half Marathon cancelled again as US sets record for COVID-19 deaths

  • Athletics

cancelled for the second successive year as COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to hit record levels in the United

States.

schedule" in the first quarter of 2021, with races expected to be "limited to a few hundred runners".The United

States has registered more cases and deaths from coronavirus than any other country.Yesterday saw the


Farewell to Olympic Agenda 2020 - a report card on the IOC's much-mentioned vision

  • The Big Read

Six years ago - on November 18, 2014 - the International Olympic Committee (IOC) unveiled its "vision for the future of the Olympic Movement". 

;The prime example is the landmark deal with Comcast that handed Olympic broadcasting rights in the United

States to NBCUniversal until 2032 for a cool $7.65 billion (£5.6 billion/€6.3 billion).


Ten elected to USA Taekwondo's Athlete Advisory Council

  • Taekwondo

The make-up of USA Taekwondo's Athlete Advisory Council has been confirmed after nominations and elections.

Ishida and Cheyenne Lewis have both been given roles automatically after earning their places on the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's Athlete Advisory Council.They take two of the seven spots


Olympic decathlon champion and Los Angeles 1984 Cauldron-lighter Johnson passes away aged 86

  • Athletics

Former Olympic decathlon champion Rafer Johnson - who also held the distinction of lighting the Olympic Cauldron during the Los Angeles 1984 Opening Ceremony - has passed away aged 86.

was the silver medallist four years earlier in Melbourne.Before winning gold, Johnson had been the United

States flagbearer in the Italian capital - becoming the first black athlete to hold the honour.A one-time


David Owen: What the new British Olympic Association report tells us about the Tokyo saga and NOC finances

  • Inside the Blogs

We have heard a lot about how the International Federations' (IFs) finances have been hit by COVID-19 and the consequent postponement of Tokyo 2020; much less about the National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

Government money and b) gets nothing like the megabucks from the International Olympic Committee that the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee rakes in.Nevertheless, if an NOC as well-run as the BOA is finding


Voting underway to elect Wheelchair Tennis Player Council

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Voting is underway to elect the new International Tennis Federation (ITF) Wheelchair Tennis Player Council.

number 14.Women's world number 11 Lucy Shuker of Britain and quads world number 16 Nick Taylor of the United

States are also in the frame.Britain's Lucy Shuker is a candidate for the Council ©Getty ImagesThe remaining


NWHL to play upcoming season in bubble in Lake Placid

  • Ice Hockey

Lake Placid in New York will host the upcoming National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) season in a bio-secure environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

fans in attendance at the Rink-Herb Brooks Arena, the site of the "Miracle on Ice" match between the United

States and Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.