USA Wrestling’s response to the sport’s threatened ouster from the Olympics has been impressive. They’ve done some international networking at the freestyle World Cup in Iran. They’re organizing at the grass roots. They’ve got an organization with a catchy name…
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Monday Myriad, Feb. 18: Slalom and shoot
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Headlines of the week: - Ted Ligety won the giant slalom, his best event, for his third title at the Alpine skiing World Championships. Then 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the slalom. That’s four golds and a bronze for the USA in 10 individual events.…
Wrestling’s way forward: Grappling in, Greco and whining out
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Now that we’ve picked our jaws up off the floor from the IOC vote to squeeze wrestling out of the Olympic rings, let’s see what arguments work and which ones don’t. As you’d expect in the free-for-all, speak-before-reading atmosphere of…
Save modern pentathlon
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The Winter Olympics are taking on an X Games feel. Even the older sports are modernizing — biathlon has caught on with TV-friendly pursuit and mass start competition, and luge has added a cool relay event. The Summer Games don’t…
Rio 2016: Is there any way to make golf work in the Olympics?
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Golf’s inclusion in the 2016 Olympics is one of the most puzzling IOC decisions in recent years. For one thing, that decision forced Rio to build a golf course, which has turned out to be a major problem. The other…
Britain learns to play along with Olympic visitors in handball, volleyball, hoops
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Now if only they could figure out a way to keep the American media from calling these teams “English.” Britains new Olympic sports: New balls, please | The Economist.
2012 medal projections: Old Cold War battles, Jamaica heat up women’s running
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Olympic athletes don’t just show up out of nowhere in an Olympic year, except maybe in a few secretive nations. Next year, we’ll have world championships in virtually everything, giving us a good chance to project what might happen in…
2012 medal projections: Archery sweep is South Korea’s aim
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You’ve seen the political projections. Now let’s get to the ones that matter. The Olympics happen every four years. (Think of the Winter Games as the midterms.) The competition is a little more honest than the typical U.S. election, and…