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Alan Abrahamson
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Columnist, 3 Wire Sports
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European football.Football: Premier League MLS
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By Alan Abrahamson Verified| 3 Wire Sports@ COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – The International Olympic Committee, founded in 1894, has had nine presidents. All have been white men. Eight have been Europeans. Avery Brundage, 1952-72, was American. On Thursday, in just a single round of voting, the IOC elected Kirsty Coventry, 41, of Zimbabwe, its 10th president. She will formally take over from Thomas Bach in June in Lausanne. He was elected in 2013 and is termed out. “This is an extraordinary moment,” Coventry said as Bach, to the side, beamed.
By Alan Abrahamson Verified| 3 Wire Sports@ COSTA NAVARINO, Greece – Before Thursday’s vote here for the next president of the International Olympic Committee, it’s worth taking a moment to think about what might have been. And how one of the most shocking deaths in the Olympic scene reverberates, still – with a warning for what is to come in arguably the most consequential IOC presidential election, ever.
By Alan Abrahamson Verified| 3 Wire Sports@ Larry Buendorf, who for decades kept the U.S. Olympic Committee safe in a turbulent world, died Sunday in Colorado Springs. He was 87. Buendorf, a former U.S. Secret Service agent well known for breaking up an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford in 1975, served as the USOC’s director of security from the early 1990s through his retirement in 2018 — seeing the athletes, team and leadership through the 1996 Atlanta Games bombing, the fraught years after 9/11 and so much more.
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Not just what's happening in and around the Olympic Movement and International Sports but what it all means.
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