Tag: South Korea

IOC needs new applicants.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHjNLN0YJds&t=4s   Indonesia is the first country that has thrown its hat in the ring and is bidding for the 2032 Summer Olympics....

A better path to the major leagues, maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aub8vlzK1QA&t=5s   A limited number of Cuban baseball players got an early Christmas gift from Major League Baseball and...

And they are off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5nytzv6U8   North Korea wants it, South Korea wants it. Indonesia wants it. They all want to host the 2032 Summer Olympics. For...

Sports diplomacy?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4_OKLR-XIs   The International Olympic Committee may have a new entry into what is getting to be a crowded field of areas vying for the...

Just a few days after International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach declared that the press is the enemy of the IOC and is the cause of cities pulling out of the bidding for the IOC’s crown jewel events, Indonesia’s President announced that his country wants the 2032 Summer Games.

The International Olympic Committee suffered a defeat at the polls in Sion and Valais, Switzerland on Sunday as voters rejected a chance to help fund the 2026 Winter Olympics in that area.

Peace in our time? Not quite.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZSsuFx4xtM   International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach took a victory lap after the announcement came down that the United States...

You have to wonder if Boston Red Sox customers really want to lose two home chances to see the New York Yankees in 2019. One of baseball’s oldest and most combative rivalries is going across the pond with the Yankees and Red Sox playing two games in London, England during the 2019 season.

What is it about the Olympics that drives politicians and business leaders of various countries into denial when it comes to actually figuring out what hosting an Olympics really costs and how much of that debt is shoved onto taxpayers?

It is all about the money.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaoubynXUI8&feature=youtu.be   It has been a good month for the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. He has been to North...