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Sports books see surge in betting on Olympics cancellationCOVID-19 forced the 2020 Olympics to be pushed back into 2021, and, now, it could push the event back even further — or kill it....

Get Ready For The New Olympic Sport That's Basically Spider-Man SpeedrunningSeveral sports will debut at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics, with the uniting theme of making the Games gnarlier. Skateboarding and surfing are the obvious headliners, but you should be aware of another extra-cool sport that’ll make its first appearance: speed climbing....

Winning Triathletes DQ'd From Olympic Test Event For Crossing Finish Line Hand-In-HandBritish triathletes Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown took the top two spots of the podium at a heat-shortened triathlon in Tokyo on Thursday, raising their hands together as they snapped the finishing tape. Their shared victory did not last long, however, as the haters over at the Internation...

The Olympics Are Coming To Tokyo, And So Is The Movement To Kill The Games Forever

TOKYO, JAPAN — In the lobby of the Marunouchi Nijubashi Building, which is undergoing final preparations to host the 2020 Olympics, a robot is on patrol. A combination of information kiosk and surveillance camera, the robot stops directly in front of me. It has the word ALSOK plastered across its ne...

Olympic Boxing Remains In Crisis

The Olympics are a bureaucratic rat’s nest, with national governing bodies, international governing bodies, host cities, various Olympic committees, and other assorted grifters jockeying for influence and money while also trying to put on the largest international sports spectacle in existence. One ...

Tokyo 2020 Is Trying To Hide Its Use Of Unpaid Workers By Calling Them Its "Field Cast"

With less than two years to go until the Olympics and already several billion dollars over budget, the Tokyo Olympic organizers have unveiled their plan for hiding the reliance on volunteers to perform the basic services for athletes and fans at the Olympic Village and at the competition venues: cal...

Olympic Boxing Is In A Mess Of Trouble

The global sporting administrative elite are gathered in Tokyo this week to discuss issues facing the Olympic movement. These went beyond the usual “how to extract millions of dollars from a few new host cities” concerns to encompass recognizing new sports like kickboxing and the Russian martial ar...

Gwen Jorgensen Wants To Be The Best In The World. Again.<em></em>

Endurance athletes, triathletes and distance runners, are a humble lot—hardworking, long suffering, and taught to endure not only punishing workouts, but years of incremental improvements with little, if any, monetary reward or recognition. Humility, patience, and persistence are the hallmarks of th...

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The 2020 Olympics Will Be Mega Gnarly; Get Ready To Shred, Brah

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will probably not be a comprehensive shitstorm like these 2016 Games are shaping up to be, but there is a decent chance they will be much more rad, thanks to the new sports that could get added to the program. Five sports have made it through to the final round of w...

by Patrick Redford|

|Thu Jun 02 2016

The logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been withdrawn after allegations it was plagiarized from a design for a Belgian theater. ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Sep 02 2015

The 26 Sports That Applied To Be In The Olympics, Ranked

Today, the IOC revealed the list of 26 sports that have officially applied to be part of the 2020 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo. They will be trimmed and a shortlist will be announced later this month, and any potential new sports will be formally recommended for inclusion on Sept. 30....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Jun 12 2015

Who Will Host The 2020 Olympics?

Tomorrow at 4 p.m. EDT, the IOC will announce the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games. Though that seems like so far away and you will be old and incontinent by then, it seems worth handicapping the three candidates....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Sep 06 2013

How Can Wrestling Stay In The Olympics? Let's Start With Vacations And Hookers.

So how can wrestling save itself from extinction as an Olympic sport? Maybe it needs to start bribing the shit out of members of the International Olympic Committee, preferably with vacations and hookers. ...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The IOC Eliminates Wrestling From The 2020 Olympics, For Some Reason

Yesterday, members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) convened in order to decide which of the 26 core Olympic sports would be dropped from the 2020 summer games in order to make room for the inclusion of a new sport. Everybody thought that the IOC was going to bring the axe down on moder...

by Tom Ley|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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