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Olympic Notes: 50 Mayors Sign Agreement In Support Of Paris 2024

More than 50 mayors from cities around the world signed an agreement in support of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid, uniting behind the city and its vision for a compact, sustainable and shared Games. Spanning all continents, the 54 global cities -- 35 of them capitals -- supporting Paris 2024 represent a diverse range of cultures, races and religions. Among the cities to sign the letter of support are six Olympic host cities: Athens, Barcelona, Mexico City, Montreal, Munich and Sydney (Paris 2024).

Swim Ireland CEO Sarah Keane, 43, will take over from Pat Hickey as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland. Keane won the majority of the 43 votes to "take the reigns from Hickey." Hickey, 71, stepped aside as OCI president temporarily last year, "following his arrest for alleged ticket touting" at the Olympics. Thursday's election was the first time since the '80s that a new president was elected to the OCI (IRISH MIRROR, 2/9).

A panel of a nonpartisan parliamentary group on sports said on Thursday that "it will aim to pass Japan's first anti-doping bills ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games, a bill that will make sports doping as illegal." The panel is "looking to present related bills to the current ordinary Diet session," laws that would come into effect in April '18. The bills are "set to ban not just the use of prohibited substances but also offering them to athletes and manipulation of test samples" (KYODO, 2/9).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

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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