3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
Not just what's happening in and around the Olympic Movement and International Sports but what it all means.| 3 Wire Sports
BUDAPEST — It’s only Day One of the swim action of these 2017 FINA world championships, and here is the dilemma. How many different ways are there to say Katie Ledecky is great? In the first final in a meet she is expected to — strike that, absent something freaky, will — dominate, Ledecky set a new championship record in the women’s 400 freestyle, winning by more than three seconds. People, here is maybe one way to say how great Katie Ledecky is. You can not be disappointed when sh...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
BUDAPEST — This is from someone who lives in Los Angeles: it is a pity that Budapest dropped out of the race for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Democracy is what it is. The will of the people is what it will be. But if these first few days of the 2017 FINA world championships are any indication, and they are, Budapest would make a great stage for a Summer Olympics. “First of all, well done, Hungary,” the Australian national swim team coach Jacco Verhaeren said at an opening news conference. ...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
BUDAPEST — Here is the short version of a contentious campaign that dragged on for months inside FINA, the aquatics federation, and that culminated in Saturday’s election: A rival sought to execute an Olympic power play. In the end, though, it was like Milorad Cavic and Michael Phelps. A lot of drama, maybe. But you knew who was going to win. Because when it comes to executing a show of authority in Olympic circles, you have to go a long way to get past the International Olympic Committee...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — In a Samaranch-style bit of kabuki theater, the decision itself having been ordained long ago, the full membership of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved the double allocation of the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games to the last two cities standing in the campaign, Los Angeles and Paris. In theory, the IOC will announce whether it's LA first and Paris next, or vice-versa, at another all-members assembly in Lima, Peru, on September 13. In real...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
You know that feeling you have in the morning when you wake up and, groggy, you’re fumbling in the darkness, and you grab a pair of socks from your drawer, and you think — you think — you have a pair that matches but you’re not sure because one might be navy blue and one might be black? Like, you are pretty sure they’re the same but, hmm? You turn on the iPhone light. Whatever. Close enough. You rush out of the house. Later, in the light of day, it’s super-obvious: they’re not e...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
All along, the good people in Eugene, Oregon, have said that the dream has been to grow the sport of track and field in the United States of America. Follow the logic. That means: Eugene as the base but, you know, get it out of Eugene. On Wednesday, the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Track & Field made it emphatic: dreams can come true. The 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in track and field will be in Los Angeles, at Mt. San Antonio College, the USOC and USATF announced. With the meet in LA comes th...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
SACRAMENTO, California -- Five years ago, on the last night of July, Bruce Springsteen played an epic show in Helsinki, more than four hours, his longest show ever. He and the E Street Band played 33 songs, one of which, My City of Ruins, ran to 18 minutes and 26 seconds. That song, as Bruce describes it that night, was originally written about his New Jersey hometown “trying to get back on its feet” but had since become about so much more: “what you lose, what you hold onto, the spirit...| 3 Wire Sports by Alan Abrahamson
Not just what's happening in and around the Olympic Movement and International Sports but what it all means.| 3 Wire Sports
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The female category in sport is for women and girls – individuals with XX chromosomes. Identity is not biology. To pretend otherwise is not only to make a mockery of any notion of fairness but, in the case of boxing, risk serious injury or worse. Now, with Algeria’s Imane Khelif said to be on t| 3 Wire Sports
