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• LeBron James, Dwyane Wade to Produce Doc on ‘Redeem Team’
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are executive producing a documentary on the 2008 “Redeem Team,” in partnership with Netflix and The International Olympic Committee. https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1560654472342171648 The 2008 United States Olympics Men’s Basketball Team coined the term “Redeem Team” for two reasons; one as a riff on the 1992 “Dream Team,̶...2022
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• Kevin Durant’s 8-word reaction to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade Netflix documentary
On Friday, it was announced that Netflix will be dropping a Lebron James and Dwyane Wade produced documentary covering the 2008 USA Men’s Olympic Basketball team. LeBron and Wade are collaborating with Netflix and the International Olympic Committee to tell the 2008 team’s story. It is an exciting project that is expected to captivate sports […] The post Kevin Durant’s 8-wo...2022
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• LeBron James, Dwyane Wade team up with Netflix for Redeem Team documentary
Lebron James and Dwyane Wade are collaborating with Netflix and the International Olympic Committee to create a new documentary called “The Redeem Team,” per Netflix on Twitter. The documentary will premier on October 7th and will cover the story of the 2008 US Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. The 2008 US Olympic Men’s Basketball Team brought […] The post LeBron James, ...2022
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• IOC reinstates Jim Thorpe as sole gold medalist in pentathlon, decathlon in 1912 Olympics
Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history, had his two gold medals from the 1912 Olympics restored by the International Olympic Committee. Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon at the Stockholm Games. He was stripped of the medals in 1913 for violating the existing amateurism rules. Thorpe played minor league baseball in 1909-10, [more]...2022

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"LeBron and Wade are collaborating with Netflix and the International Olympic Committee to tell the 2008 team’s story."

2020
"The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed to 2021 by the International Olympic Committee, it was announced Tuesday."

2018
"The basketball world mourns the sudden passing of Patrick Baumann, FIBA Secretary General and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, who succumbed to a heart attack on Sunday during the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina."

2017
"The International Olympic Committee is trying to bring more youth to its basketball teams."

2016
"Baumann said the International Olympic Committee will decide in […]"

• Olympics-World Athletics to look at "implications" of Tsimanouskaya case, says Coe
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said he offered his help on the night Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was ejected from the Olympics by officials of her own Belarussian team and that the governing body will be looking at the implications of the extraordinary events. Tsimanouskaya was ordered to fly home after criticising officials after she refused to take part in the 4x400metres relay but refused...2021
• IOC removes 2 Belarus coaches who allegedly tried to force sprinter Tsimanouskaya on to plane
The International Olympic Committee said Thursday it cancelled and removed the accreditations of two Belarus coaches over their suspected involvement in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their home country, per the IOC.Driving the news: The coaches, Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich, were asked to leave the Olympic village immediately "and have done so," the IOC said.Get market...2021
• LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
Team USAKorea's Jy Hyun Song in action against Italy during the 2017 women's world championship in Guildford, England. World Lacrosse now boasts 68 member nations and hosts world championships in five categories (men's senior, women's senior, men's U20, women's U20 and men's box). During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and we...2021
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• LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and went in-depth on the path to the Olympics. Scherr is perhaps uniquely qualified to provide this analysis, given his diversified background in the Olympic network. A wrestler who represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Scherr went on to serve as the executi...2021
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• Report: NFL owner reached out to Silver about commissioner job
Jerry Jones may be prepared to go to extreme measures in an attempt to prevent Roger Goodell from getting a contract extension, but the Dallas Cowboys owner is apparently not the only one who has concerns about the commissioner.It seems like a foregone conclusion that Goodell is going is going to land a new deal, and part of that has to do with there being no obvious successor in place. However, E...2017
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• Bobby Valentine Says He Thinks PEDs Will Eventually Become Mainstream in Sports
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• LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
Team USAKorea's Jy Hyun Song in action against Italy during the 2017 women's world championship in Guildford, England. World Lacrosse now boasts 68 member nations and hosts world championships in five categories (men's senior, women's senior, men's U20, women's U20 and men's box). During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and we...2021
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• LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
During this year’s US Lacrosse Convention, World Lacrosse CEO Jim Scherr provided an update on the organization and went in-depth on the path to the Olympics. Scherr is perhaps uniquely qualified to provide this analysis, given his diversified background in the Olympic network. A wrestler who represented the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Scherr went on to serve as the executi...2021
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• Alyssa Murray Cometti Up for IWGA Greatest Athlete Award
Press ReleaseTeam USAU.S. WomenVoting for the International World Games Association “Greatest Athlete of All-Time” contest opened today and U.S. national team veteran Alyssa Murray Cometti is representing the sport of lacrosse. The contest helps the IWGA celebrate 40 years of the The World Games, the signature event of the IWGA. The organization received nominations from 25 member organizations fo...2021
• Remembering the one-of-a-kind 1992 Dream Team
25 years ago, the International Olympic Committee made the decision to allow professional athletes to play in the Summer Olympics. Players from the NBA made their first appearance in the Summer games, ultimately becoming known as the “Dream Team.” What followed was a display of immense talent from the United States. The team that included some of the biggest superstars of the sport made a joke out...2017
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• World Lacrosse Postpones Two World Championships Until 2022
Press ReleaseTeam USAU.S. Under 19 MenU.S. WomenCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the global pandemic brought about by the COVID-19 virus continues to disrupt the international sport calendar, World Lacrosse has, regrettably, made the decision to postpone its two World Championships originally scheduled for 2021 by one year and will instead stage the events in 2022. In a unanimous decision by the World...2020
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• Olympic Recognition: What It Means and Why It Matters
The lacrosse world rejoiced Nov. 30 when the International Olympic Committee granted provisional recognition to the Federation of International Lacrosse — a development that bolsters the sport’s potential to return to the Olympic Games. The following editorial by US Lacrosse CEO and FIL vice president Steve Stenersen and subsequent article appear in the upcoming edition of US Lacrosse Magazine. Do...2018
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• Tokyo Olympics officially postponed until 2021
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• Baseball, softball finalists for return in 2020 Olympics
Baseball and softball are one step away from ending a 12-year Olympic hiatus. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday nominated the two sports together as one of eight finalists to make their return to the Summer Games. The other finalists were bowling, karate, roller sports, sports climbing, squash, surfing and martial arts. Baseball, softball and the other seven sports were handpicked ...2015
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• Baseball, softball to return to Olympics in 2020
Baseball will return to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee executive board voted Wednesday to bring back baseball and softball to the Summer Games after not including them in 2012 or the upcoming '16 Games....2016
• International Olympic Committee won’t add football to the Games
A long-shot bid to make football an Olympic sport has fallen short. The International Olympic Committee rejected a bid to add football in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Football was lumped in with a bunch of sports most Americans have either never heard of or don’t consider sports (including bowls, bridge, chess,…...2015
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• IOC reinstates Jim Thorpe as sole gold medalist in pentathlon, decathlon in 1912 Olympics
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• Four Russians banned from Olympics, stripped of medals from 2014 Sochi Games
Bobsledders and speed skaters are the latest to be hit by International Olympic Committee sanctions...2017
• Sources: NHL, IOC unable to agree on rights deal
The NHL and the International Olympic Committee were unable to secure an expanded media rights deal for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but the league still intends to send its players to Beijing, sources told ESPN....2021
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• FIBA pushing for 3-on-3 basketball in 2020 Tokyo Olympics
FIBA wanted 3-on-3 basketball in the 2016 Olympics. Didn’t happen. How about 2020? Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today: RIO DE JANEIRO — The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) is making another push to include 3-on-3 basketball in the Olympics, FIBA secretary-general Patrick Baumann told USA TODAY Sports. Baumann said the International Olympic Committee will decide in […]...2016
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• Olympics chief snaps at FIFA for World Cup plan

FIFA's fading plan for biennial World Cups was labeled a threat to football and all other sports by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday....2022
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• IOC Decides To Postpone 2020 Tokyo Olympics
A member of the International Olympic Committee has announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be postponed, Christine Brennan of USA Today reports. Dick Pound, the longest tenured of all IOC members, says that a move to 2021 is likely. Although no formal announcement has been made by the IOC or the Tokyo 2020 […] The post IOC Decides To Postpone 2020 Tokyo Olympics appeared first on S...2020
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• International Olympic Committee lifts ban on Russia despite two failed doping tests
Two Russian athletes fail doping tests in Pyeongchang but the IOC still decided to reinstate Russia...2018

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• LaxCon 2021: World Lacrosse and the Olympic Movement
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• US Lacrosse VP Carpenetti Named to World Lacrosse Women in Sport Commission
Press ReleaseTeam USACOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – With the unanimous approval of its Board of Directors, World Lacrosse has completed the initial phase of appointments to three new Commissions that are expected to make important contributions to the continued growth of lacrosse worldwide while expanding the capabilities and expertise of the international federation. The initial round of appointments ...2020
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• NBA player status for Olympics up in air; International Olympic Committee looks at options

If the NBA playoffs extend into July and August, it would overlap with the scheduled start of the Tokyo Olympics....2020
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• See Which Olympic Athletes We Would Pick For Our Olympic Lacrosse Roster

See Which Olympic Athletes We Would Pick For Our Olympic Lacrosse Roster With the announcement of the FIL receiving provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee, it left us with many questions. And the most important question of them all was, which top Olympic athletes of all-time would make for the best lineup on the lacrosse field at the grandest of all sporting events? Here...2018
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• Olympics-Sailing-Old classes wave goodbye as sailing set for changes
Despite being threatened by a typhoon at one stage the Olympic sailing programme went off almost without a hitch, but the winds of change blowing through both the Games and the sport mean that it will not look the same in Paris in three years' time. The desire of governing body World Sailing and the International Olympic Committee for greater equality and an extra dash of excitement will see some...2021
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• Russia avoids complete ban from Rio Olympics by the IOC
The International Olympic Committee looked long and hard at a potential blanket ban of all Russian athletes from the 2016 Rio Olympics following a wide spread doping scandal. However, the IOC decided against the blanket ban on Sunday. Instead of a blanket ban, the IOC is deferring to the individual sports governing bodies decision on Russian athletes and their ability to compete at the games. By d...2016
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2015

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