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  • • Russian TV targets Tom Daley and other LGBT+ Olympic athletes with homophobic slurs
    International Olympic Committee says discrimination has ‘absolutely no place’ at Tokyo Games...2021
  • • Olympics Latest: Belarus coaches removed from Olympics
    The International Olympic Committee says it has removed two Belarus team coaches from the Olympics, four days after they were involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to Belarus. The IOC says it canceled and removed the credentials of Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich. Shimak and Maisevich continued to have contact with Belarus athletes since Sunday after the IOC linked the...2021
  • • Sources: NHL, IOC unable to agree on rights deal
    The NHL and the International Olympic Committee were unable to secure an expanded media rights deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the league still intends to send its players to Beijing, sources told ESPN....2021
  • • U.S. Women’s Team Wins First-Ever 3×3 Gold Medal
    The 3x3 U.S. Women's Team featuring Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young defeated Russian Olympic Committee in the gold medal game, 18-15. Stefanie Dolson led all scorers in points (7 total points) and rebounds (9 boards).  Dolson, Gray, Plum and Young go down as the first-ever 3x3 women's team to win gold in the Olympic games. The post U.S. Women’s Team Wins First-Ever 3×3 ...2021
  • • U.S. Olympic 3×3 Team Advances to Gold Medal Game
    The U.S. Olympic Women's 3x3 Basketball Team (7-1) held off a tough French (5-4) squad for a 18-16 semifinal victory on Wednesday evening at Aomi Urban Sports Park on Saturday in Tokyo. The U.S. is poised to take on the winner of the Russian Olympic Committee (5-2) versus China (6-2) semifinal in tonight's gold medal game at 9:55 p.m. JST (8:55 a.m. EDT). The post U.S. Olympic 3×3 Team Advances to...2021
  • • The 5 greatest players of Team USA from the past decade
    Team USA has been the standard-bearer of international basketball ever since the Olympic Committee permitted professional players to play in the 1992 Barcelona games. That summer, arguably the greatest basketball team ever was assembled: the 1992 Dream Team composed of the likes of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and some other player named Michael Jordan. After […] The post The 5 greatest player...2021
  • • Olympics here we come! IOC grants full recognition to World Lacrosse on eve of Tokyo Games
    Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 7/20/21 – From Press Release World Lacrosse took an historic step forward in its continued growth and development today, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Membership voted to grant Full Recognition to the international federation for lacrosse. The vote took place during the 138th IOC Session in Tokyo ahead of the upcoming Olympic […] The post Olymp...2021
  • • IOC Endorses World Lacrosse Full Recognition
    IOC Endorses World Lacrosse Full Recognition The International Olympic Committee (IOC) endorsed full recognition of World Lacrosse for men’s and women’s lacrosse, an important… Lacrosse All Stars - Grow The Game®...2021
  • • IOC Endorses World Lacrosse Full Recognition
    IOC Endorses World Lacrosse Full Recognition The International Olympic Committee (IOC) endorsed full recognition of World Lacrosse for men’s and women’s lacrosse, an important… Lacrosse All Stars - Grow The Game®...2021
  • • Olympic Committee Executive Board Recommends Lacrosse
    Olympic Committee Executive Board Recommends Lacrosse World Lacrosse took another major step  forward in its continued growth and development today, as the International Olympic Committee… Lacrosse All Stars - Grow The Game®...2021

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Olympic Committee injury and suspension

  • • Kings bring two additions to basketball operations staff
    The Kings have made two additions to their basketball operations staff, according to James Ham of NBC Sports.Adam Filippi has joined the team as the Director of Pro Scouting. He most recently served as the Director of Global Scouting with the Hornets, and will be based out of Los Angeles covering the Southeast Region.Sacramento also hired Anthony Darmiento as the Assistant Performance Coach. Darmi...2018
  • • Wills' Last Ride? America's Goalie Hopes Next Generation Ushers Lacrosse into Olympics
    At age 14, Devon Wills could clear the ball 50 yards up the field on the run with her non-dominant left hand. By high school, she cruised through workouts required of the U.S. and Canadian women’s national teams. But it wasn’t until she met Danielle Gallagher and Susan Stuart that Wills, a Denver native who grew up dreaming of playing Olympic ice hockey, realized lacrosse would be her life’s calli...2017
  • • Bobby Valentine Says He Thinks PEDs Will Eventually Become Mainstream in Sports
    2015

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Olympic Committee trade, contract, salary rumors

  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    Team USAKorea's Jy Hyun Song in action against Italy during the 2017 women's world championship in Guildford, England. World Lacrosse now boasts 68 member nations and hosts world championships in five categories (men's senior, women's senior, men's U20, women's U20 and men's box). During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and we...2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and went in-depth on the path to the Olympics. Scherr is perhaps uniquely qualified to provide this analysis, given his diversified background in the Olympic network. A wrestler who represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Scherr went on to serve as the executi...2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • #XTRAPOINT: Rams host NFL Flag Regional Championships … and it was awesome!
    • #XTRAPOINT: Rams host NFL Flag Regional Championships … and it was awesome!
    Carrlyn Bathe takes us to the NFL Flag Regional Championships, sponsored by the Rams and USA football. NFL FLAG powered by USA Football promotes physical fitness and teaches the sport’s values and life skills on and off the field to nearly 400,000 young people. A non-contact version of traditional football offered for boys and girls ages 5-17 in cities across the country, the program emphasizes fu...2018
  • • Report: NFL owner reached out to Silver about commissioner job
    Jerry Jones may be prepared to go to extreme measures in an attempt to prevent Roger Goodell from getting a contract extension, but the Dallas Cowboys owner is apparently not the only one who has concerns about the commissioner.It seems like a foregone conclusion that Goodell is going is going to land a new deal, and part of that has to do with there being no obvious successor in place. However, E...2017
  • • Why the NHL Should Send Its Players to the 2018 Olympics
    2016
  • • Bobby Valentine Says He Thinks PEDs Will Eventually Become Mainstream in Sports
    2015

Olympic Committee stats and results

  • • U.S. Women’s Team Wins First-Ever 3×3 Gold Medal
    The 3x3 U.S. Women's Team featuring Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young defeated Russian Olympic Committee in the gold medal game, 18-15. Stefanie Dolson led all scorers in points (7 total points) and rebounds (9 boards).  Dolson, Gray, Plum and Young go down as the first-ever 3x3 women's team to win gold in the Olympic games. The post U.S. Women’s Team Wins First-Ever 3×3 ...2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    Team USAKorea's Jy Hyun Song in action against Italy during the 2017 women's world championship in Guildford, England. World Lacrosse now boasts 68 member nations and hosts world championships in five categories (men's senior, women's senior, men's U20, women's U20 and men's box). During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and we...2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and went in-depth on the path to the Olympics. Scherr is perhaps uniquely qualified to provide this analysis, given his diversified background in the Olympic network. A wrestler who represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Scherr went on to serve as the executi...2021
  • • Alyssa Murray Cometti Up for IWGA Greatest Athlete Award
    Press ReleaseTeam USAU.S. WomenVoting for the International World Games Association “Greatest Athlete of All-Time” contest opened today and U.S. national team veteran Alyssa Murray Cometti is representing the sport of lacrosse. The contest helps the IWGA celebrate 40 years of the The World Games, the signature event of the IWGA. The organization received nominations from 25 member organizations fo...2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    Each morning, Lyle Thompson jogs around his home in the Six Nations reserve south of Toronto. Four laps around his property equal a mile. He mixes up his routine with sprints and longer runs. Next, he stretches and lifts kettlebells. Finally, he grabs his lacrosse stick and fires on a goal in his yard for up to an hour, sometimes longer. Home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables are in. Fast foods...2020
  • • Remembering the one-of-a-kind 1992 Dream Team
    25 years ago, the International Olympic Committee made the decision to allow professional athletes to play in the Summer Olympics. Players from the NBA made their first appearance in the Summer games, ultimately becoming known as the “Dream Team.” What followed was a display of immense talent from the United States. The team that included some of the biggest superstars of the sport made a joke out...2017

Olympic Committee parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • World Lacrosse Postpones Two World Championships Until 2022
    Press ReleaseTeam USAU.S. Under 19 MenU.S. WomenCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the global pandemic brought about by the COVID-19 virus continues to disrupt the international sport calendar, World Lacrosse has, regrettably, made the decision to postpone its two World Championships originally scheduled for 2021 by one year and will instead stage the events in 2022. In a unanimous decision by the World...2020
  • • Olympic Recognition: What It Means and Why It Matters
    The lacrosse world rejoiced Nov. 30 when the International Olympic Committee granted provisional recognition to the Federation of International Lacrosse — a development that bolsters the sport’s potential to return to the Olympic Games. The following editorial by US Lacrosse CEO and FIL vice president Steve Stenersen and subsequent article appear in the upcoming edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Do...2018
  • • Wills' Last Ride? America's Goalie Hopes Next Generation Ushers Lacrosse into Olympics
    2017

Top Olympic Committee news

  • • Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021
    The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed to 2021 by the International Olympic Committee, it was announced Tuesday....2020
  • • Vlade Divac Joins Kings Front Office: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
    2015
  • • Bobby Valentine Says He Thinks PEDs Will Eventually Become Mainstream in Sports
    2015
  • • The 5 greatest players of Team USA from the past decade
    2021
  • • Baseball, softball finalists for return in 2020 Olympics
    Baseball and softball are one step away from ending a 12-year Olympic hiatus.   Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday nominated the two sports together as one of eight finalists to make their return to the Summer Games. The other finalists were bowling, karate, roller sports, sports climbing, squash, surfing and martial arts. Baseball, softball and the other seven sports were handpicked ...2015
  • • USOC: Entire USA Gymnastics board must resign over Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal
    The United States Olympic Committee wants a full turnover of leadership following the sex abuse scandal...2018
  • • Baseball, softball to return to Olympics in 2020
    Baseball will return to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee executive board voted Wednesday to bring back baseball and softball to the Summer Games after not including them in 2012 or the upcoming '16 Games....2016
  • • International Olympic Committee won’t add football to the Games
    A long-shot bid to make football an Olympic sport has fallen short. The International Olympic Committee rejected a bid to add football in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Football was lumped in with a bunch of sports most Americans have either never heard of or don’t consider sports (including bowls, bridge, chess,…...2015
  • • 6 TFC players to represent Canada at Pan Am Games
    2015
  • • Wills' Last Ride? America's Goalie Hopes Next Generation Ushers Lacrosse into Olympics
    2017
  • • United States Olympic Committee continues preparations for Olympic Games despite Pyongyang threat looming
    The Games are to be hosted in South Korea, and France has already expressed concern over security...2017
  • • Four Russians banned from Olympics, stripped of medals from 2014 Sochi Games
    Bobsledders and speed skaters are the latest to be hit by International Olympic Committee sanctions...2017
  • • Sources: NHL, IOC unable to agree on rights deal
    2021
  • • FIBA pushing for 3-on-3 basketball in 2020 Tokyo Olympics
    FIBA wanted 3-on-3 basketball in the 2016 Olympics. Didn’t happen. How about 2020? Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today: RIO DE JANEIRO — The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) is making another push to include 3-on-3 basketball in the Olympics, FIBA secretary-general Patrick Baumann told USA TODAY Sports. Baumann said the International Olympic Committee will decide in […]...2016

Olympic Committee schedule, game

  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    2021
  • • LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
    2021
  • • The Empathy that Brought the Iroquois and Irish Together as One
    2020
  • • US Lacrosse VP Carpenetti Named to World Lacrosse Women in Sport Commission
    Press ReleaseTeam USACOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – With the unanimous approval of its Board of Directors, World Lacrosse has completed the initial phase of appointments to three new Commissions that are expected to make important contributions to the continued growth of lacrosse worldwide while expanding the capabilities and expertise of the international federation. The initial round of appointments ...2020
  • • World Lacrosse Postpones Two World Championships Until 2022
    2020
  • NBA player status for Olympics up in air; International Olympic Committee looks at options
    • NBA player status for Olympics up in air; International Olympic Committee looks at options
    If the NBA playoffs extend into July and August, it would overlap with the scheduled start of the Tokyo Olympics....2020
  • See Which Olympic Athletes We Would Pick For Our Olympic Lacrosse Roster
    • See Which Olympic Athletes We Would Pick For Our Olympic Lacrosse Roster
    See Which Olympic Athletes We Would Pick For Our Olympic Lacrosse Roster With the announcement of the FIL receiving provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee, it left us with many questions. And the most important question of them all was, which top Olympic athletes of all-time would make for the best lineup on the lacrosse field at the grandest of all sporting events? Here...2018
  • • Olympic Recognition: What It Means and Why It Matters
    2018
  • • Why the NHL Should Send Its Players to the 2018 Olympics
    2016
  • • 6 TFC players to represent Canada at Pan Am Games
    2015

Olympic Committee rumors, scandals

  • • USOC: Entire USA Gymnastics board must resign over Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal
    2018
  • • Wills' Last Ride? America's Goalie Hopes Next Generation Ushers Lacrosse into Olympics
    2017
  • • Why the NHL Should Send Its Players to the 2018 Olympics
    2016
  • • Russia avoids complete ban from Rio Olympics by the IOC
    The International Olympic Committee looked long and hard at a potential blanket ban of all Russian athletes from the 2016 Rio Olympics following a wide spread doping scandal. However, the IOC decided against the blanket ban on Sunday. Instead of a blanket ban, the IOC is deferring to the individual sports governing bodies decision on Russian athletes and their ability to compete at the games. By d...2016
  • • Bobby Valentine Says He Thinks PEDs Will Eventually Become Mainstream in Sports
    2015

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