Paris 2024 leaders stress collaborative security effort for unprecedented opening ceremony and 100-year anniversary Games
Ed Hula awarded Coubertin Medal on Olympic Day in Lausanne
California Dreaming: World’s surfers descend upon Huntington Beach with Olympic aspirations for 2024
Nearly 250 surfers representing 51 nations are hitting the waves at the ISA World Surfing Games in Surf City, USA. The two winning nations, male and female, will punch an additional ticket to the Paris 2024 Games, as the Olympic lifestyle sport will be showcased on the epic swells in Tahiti
Controversial LIV Golf Tour, Aussie star Cameron Smith, tee it up outside of Boston
Six new additions, led by world number two and Open Championship winner Smith, are playing LIV Golf for the first time, having recently joined the Saudi-backed golf tour. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Rory McIlroy on the PGA rival tour: “I hate what it’s doing to the game of golf. I hate it. I really do.”
U.S. Biathlon president Max Cobb named new IBU secretary general
Cobb brings 16 years of experience leading U.S. Biathlon to the International Biathlon Union (IBU). The U.S. winter sports veteran will relocate to work at the IBU’s Salzburg, Austria-based headquarters
Utah Olympic Park expansion, aided by $5 million donation, bolsters Salt Lake City Olympic bid
Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation president Colin Hilton highlights the purpose and vision behind the new ‘Phase Two’ expansion, while noting that it will allow the possibility of additional events to be held at Utah Olympic Park should the U.S. state win its bid for 2030 or 2034. Latest poll indicates that 79% of Utahns support a return of the Winter Olympics
Mexican organizers prepare to host beach volleyball world championships for the first time
Beach volleyball’s signature event will be contested on Latin American sand for the first time in 20 years when the championships open across three cities in East Central Mexico next year. Norwegian men and Brazilian women will seek to defend their world titles from Rome 2022 as the tournament also serves as a Paris 2024 qualifier
Belgian Nafi Thiam extends heptathlon dominance as four Olympic champions win European titles on night four in Munich
Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi, Norwegian distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Polish hammer thrower Wojciech Nowicki joined Nafi as Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions who triumphed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships
Allyson Felix discusses life after track and field, LA28 and serving on the IOC Athletes’ Commission
The 11-time Olympic medalist is eager to make an impact in her new role on the IOC Athletes’ Commission and at LA28. Felix, the mother of her now three-year daughter Camryn, is also partnering with Clorox, leading a newly launched back-to-school campaign targeted towards moms
Italian Olympic champion Jacobs, German Luckenkemper, win 100-meter titles at European Athletics Championships
Redemption for Lamont Marcell Jacobs after an injury-plagued season as the Italian sprinter outguns Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes with a 9.95 second winning time. Germany’s Gina Luckenkemper is victorious in a race decided dramatically in a three-person photo finish, while Decathlete Niklaus Kaul defends his world title on the home track in Munich
