Tag: Summer Olympics

The WBC is a major event in some baseball playing countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAYzhRYupo The World Baseball Classic is coming to an end and the reality is that...

The country wants the Games for political reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdlNy2BJRUM In the it is never too early to seek a Summer Olympics mode, Indonesia wants to land...

The Omicron wave has entered Beijing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ44r3RGPng Omicron does not really care if Czech Republic President Miloš Zeman said “I am fundamentally opposed to the abuse...

The next available Winter Olympics.is in 2030. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqJmNrcyCqE It appears that Ukraine really wants to host a Winter Olympics and that Ukrainian officials are ready to...

All you need is cash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slsoKfjG2oE The 19th century American showman Phineas T. Barnum probably never said “there’s a sucker born every minute” but whoever came...

No one has a crystal ball.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHN0_Onc4wA Major League Baseball owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association have agreed to an emergency collective...

No slam dunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WRIUPY656g There are a number of people in Salt Lake City and in Utah who think the 2030 Winter Olympics is theirs for the asking....

Boxing, which has been a Summer Olympics mainstay since the 1904 St. Louis event, with the exception of the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games because Sweden had outlawed boxing, may be on the Olympics ropes.

It appears that the backers of the 2026 Sapporo, Japan Winter Olympics bid really don’t want to go ahead with the bid. The Sapporo backers may want to try to land the 2030 Winter Games but there really isn’t much of an explanation as to why the group is seeking a delay.