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Olympics Notes: IOC Announces Shortlist Of Three Cities For 2018 Youth Games

The IOC announced that Buenos Aires, Argentina; Glasgow, Scotland; and Medellín, Colombia have been shortlisted in the bid to host the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in '18. The three cities were chosen from among five candidate cities vying to host the YOG. Guadalajara, Mexico, and Rotterdam, Netherlands did not make the final shortlist (IOC).

GOING TO SOCHI: Japan women's hockey team defeated Denmark Sunday in the final qualification round to earn a spot in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. To celebrate the victory, Team Japan's official sponsor Takasu Clinic, "a leading cosmetic surgery company," will provide up to 100M JPY ($1.07M) "to support the players" (CHUNICHI SPORTS, 2/13). ... The Sochi 2014 Ambassadors team working with Italian chef Roberto Bruno has created Sochi 2014 sweets dedicated to the first Russian Winter Games in an improvised chocolate lab. After tasting four versions of sweets with different flavors the two favorites were selected. The winners were determined by votes from the creators. These sweets will go on sale across the country under the Sochi 2014 brand in May '13 (Sochi 2014).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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