Tag: I.O.C
Incriminated street names: Can Brundageplatz keep its name? – Munich
Brundage Square isn’t pretty, a wide concrete expanse with a few trees, but it’s significant and busy. For many visitors, it is the gateway to the Munich Olympic Park. If…
Athletics President Sebastian Coe: Waiting – Sport
Sometimes you wish they were all back a little bit. Lamine Diack, for example, the deceased former president of the world athletics association who had been convicted by a court…
IOC and Russia: The Olympic chaos has begun
Bringing athletes from Russia and Belarus back to world sport: that is the highly controversial wish of the IOC. This is already creating a great deal of confusion for fencers…
IOC and Russia: state doping? war of aggression? collective exclusion!
Track and field athletes have been showing for years how easy it can be. The question is all the more why the IOC and its German President Thomas Bach are…
Tennis: The attitude only lasts for one summer – sport
The impressions conveyed testified to a carefree event. A photo of a glitteringly decorated ballroom where the gala dinner took place circulated on social media. The Hungarian Marton Fucsovics raved…
Climber Elnaz Rekabi: Iran must meet sensitive sanctions – Sport
Elnaz Rekabi was back at the airport in Tehran on Wednesday morning, it was still black outside. Her eyes were serious and tense as she repeated to state media cameras…
Elnaz Rekabi: Iran must impose sensitive sanctions – sport
Elnaz Rekabi was back at the airport in Tehran on Wednesday morning, it was still black outside. Her eyes were serious and tense as she repeated to state media cameras…
Protection through sanctions – Sport
Elnaz Rekabi was back at the airport in Tehran on Wednesday morning, it was still black outside. Her eyes were serious and tense as she repeated to state media cameras…
Protests in Iran: mystery about climber Elnaz Rekabi
In Iran, demonstrators are cheering professional climber Elnaz Rekabi for competing without the obligatory hijab. But now she is missing – the concern for her fate is great. Of Nadine…
Olympia 1972: Participants remember demonstration competitions – Munich
It’s 6 a.m. when Hagen Klie’s Olympic career, which strictly speaking isn’t one at all, begins and ends a little later. Waterskiing was included in the Olympics for the first…