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IOC: 'No compromise' if Cortina track isn't ready

Closing Bell - 02/23/2024

The IOC reiterated that the bobsled track for the Milan-Cortina Games "has to be ready by March 2025" and that there "will be no compromise." Italy is going ahead with a controversial, $90M plan to rebuild the historic track in Cortina for the 2026 Games, "despite fierce...

AXS, CTS Eventim named ticket providers for LA28

Unpacks Newsletter - 02/21/2024 | Closing Bell - 02/21/2024

AXS and CTS Eventim have been selected the Official Ticketing Service Providers for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The two companies formed a joint venture for LA28 to promote, sell, and distribute Olympics tickets on a global basis. Tickets will be sold...

Brisbane Games facing challenge of 'toxic atmosphere' around planning

Daily - 02/20/2024 | Daily - 02/20/2024

The inside plan to resurrect the Olympic Games brand in Brisbane and "regain the excitement lost after almost three years of government infighting, public protests and insular leadership" has "made for a toxic atmosphere,” according to Hayden Johnson of the Brisbane SUNDAY MAIL. IOC VP John Coates declared that...

USA Fencing adds two more sponsors ahead of Paris

Morning Buzz - 02/15/2024

USA Fencing has inked new official sponsorship deals with wellness/sleep supplement brand Beam and Rain Pure Mountain Spring Water. Rain will supply its sustainable aluminum bottles of natural spring water and receive signage and branding inventory at major USA Fencing events. The deal is Rain’s second with an NGB...

Paris 2024 unveils only purpose-built Olympic arena

Morning Buzz - 02/12/2024

Paris 2024 Olympic organizers and Paris City Hall officials inaugurated yesterday "the first -- and only -- purpose-built site" in the city for this summer’s Games -- The Adidas Arena at Porte de la Chapelle. The arena is "ready and operational" about five months before the Games begin and...

Team Great Britain inks new deal with TikTok

Morning Buzz - 02/12/2024

Britain's Olympics team has signed a sponsorship deal with TikTok "to help grow its athletes' online influence" as strict Olympic rules on digital advertising "are set to be loosened" for this year's Paris Games. Team GB said having TikTok as an official partner "would help their athletes to connect...

MLB owners 'supportive' of allowing players to participate in '28 L.A. Games

Daily - 02/08/2024 | Daily - 02/08/2024

Some MLB owners are “increasingly supportive of sending major leaguers to the 2028 Olympic Games ” in L.A., according to sources cited by Evan Drellich of THE ATHLETIC. Wasserman CEO Casey Wasserman yesterday at the MLB owners meeting “discussed a tournament ... that could...

Design revealed for Paris 2024 Olympic medals

Morning Buzz - 02/08/2024

A piece of iron, "originally intended for the Eiffel Tower and cut into the shape of a hexagon," will be set into each of the medals of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. LVMH tapped Chaumet to design the medals -- "the first time...

Gabba cricket stadium rebuild for 2032 Brisbane Games 'dead'

Daily - 02/08/2024 | Daily - 02/08/2024

Brisbane’s $1.8B (all figures U.S.) rebuild of Gabba cricket stadium "is dead," with IOC VP John Coates “declaring the project is damaging the Games brand,” according to Johnson & Bennett of the Brisbane COURIER-MAIL. Brisbane 2032 Organizing Committee President Andrew Liveris today “backed” Coates’s...

Sens. concerned with SafeSport, reach out to NGBs

Closing Bell - 02/07/2024

Two U.S. senators are "concerned the U.S. Center for SafeSport is not doing the job Congress intended it to" and are now "asking sports governing bodies to answer a series of questions that could determine whether federal lawmakers step in again." Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Gary...

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IOC: 'No compromise' if Cortina track isn't ready

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Brisbane Games facing challenge of 'toxic atmosphere' around planning

USA Fencing adds two more sponsors ahead of Paris

Paris 2024 unveils only purpose-built Olympic arena

Team Great Britain inks new deal with TikTok

MLB owners 'supportive' of allowing players to participate in '28 L.A. Games

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Gabba cricket stadium rebuild for 2032 Brisbane Games 'dead'

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