Category: Organization
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French Hotels Protest ‘Outrageous’ Airbnb-Olympics Deal
French hotel owners assailed Airbnb on Wednesday over its new partnership with the International Olympic Committee, warning they would stop working on the planning for the Paris 2024 summer Games to protest against what they call an unfair competitor. French hotels have long accused home rental platform Airbnb of taking advantage of minimal oversight to…
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Japan Wants Missile Defenses to Protect the 2020 Olympics (From North Korea)
When the next Summer Olympics are held in July 2020 in Tokyo, expect to see more than the world’s greatest athletes. There will also be missiles standing guard. Japan’s Defense Ministry is considering whether to deploy U.S-made Patriot missile defense interceptors to protect the games. “To ensure the security of Tokyo, where the Summer Games…
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Behind Los Angeles’ Bitter War to Abolish the Olympics for Good
From NOlympics’ view, the Games not only fail to “realize a more peaceful vision of the future,†but actively sow division, widening the gap between the working poor and monied elite. For the past two years, the group has mounted a campaign with a simple mission: kick the Olympics out of Los Angeles. Recently, as…
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Russia to Host 2024 European Aquatics Championships
Russia’s Kazan or Nizhny Novgorod are set to host the 2024 European Aquatics Championships, European Swimming League (Ligue Europeenne de Natation, LEN) Bureau Member Alexei Vlasenko told TASS. The European Aquatics Championships are held biannually, Russia has never hosted the competition. “The latest LEN Bureau [meeting] decided that the 2020 European Championships will be held…
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Munich to host second European Championships in 2022
Munich has been named as host of the second edition of the multi-sport European Championships in 2022. Athletics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon have also been confirmed for the sports programme in the German city. All six sports featured at the first European Championships in Glasgow and Berlin last year, alongside aquatics which has…
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Oakland man combines social justice with swimming
An Oakland man is merging social justice with swimming, through the Oaklantis swim team and swim school. The founder and coach, Scott Thompson, grew up swimming competitively through college. When he moved to Oakland 10 years ago, he said he wanted to get more children in the pool. He called swimming a “vastly ‘white’ sport,” and…
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Michael Phelps on Building His Brand After The Olympics | WSJ
Former Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps talks to WSJ’s Lee Hawkins about life after swimming, including his work related to water conservation and his business endorsements.
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Midland Dow senior Anna Jensen talks about swimming on boys, girls teams
Midland Dow senior Anna Jensen competed on the boys swim team as a freshman when she was one of the top distance runners in the state. She joined the girls team and hopes to medal in the state meet. Jensen has committed to join the women’s rowing team at Texas.
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‘The Hottest Take’: Olympics | Rodger Sherman Wants to Get Rid of the Swim Strokes
In this episode of The Hottest Take, Rodger Sherman says the Olympics needs to make a change, and there are two options.