Canadians have mixed feelings about hosting future international sporting events, with many seeing value in such events, and others viewing world competitions like the Olympics to be “corrupt” and “too expensive,” says a Heritage Department internal report. “There is no clear consensus among respondents who believe large scale international sporting events will be fairly or…

What is the true story of how the Olympic games began? John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane, authors of “Olympia: The Birth of the Games,” have endeavored to tell that story in their new novel. This historical fiction account takes the reader back to the year 776 B.C., in the Greek city of Olympia….

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates, who helped deliver the Sydney 2000 and Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, has announced that he is stepping down from the role after 32 years. When asked by 2GB radio host Ben Fordham if he was having second thoughts about his decision, Coates said, with a laugh: “Not at…

Commentary Evidently, Team USA has been advised to leave their cellphones at home when they travel to China for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing next month. In an email from his CAVPAC political action committee, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes: “That Team USA is telling our athletes to use burner phones and…

Commentary The approaching Winter Olympic Games scheduled for next month in Beijing provide a continuing spotlight on Uyghur genocide by Chinese communists in Xinjiang. Several countries, including the United States, have implemented diplomatic boycotts already. The International Olympic Committee has yet to convey how athletes who speak out about Xinjiang during the games will be…

Commentary Human rights activist and writer Yang Maodong, also known by the pen name Guo Feixiong, faces the risk of becoming the defining victim of the Chinese regime’s increasingly harsh abuses. As Beijing prepares to launch the Winter Games next month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took yet another step in its level of cruelty…

Officials in a northern Chinese district banned residents from burning coal or wood for heating—even if it was well below the freezing point—ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The northern district of Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao city, Hebei Province, took extreme measures to fight smog, including forcibly closing or dismantling household stoves, reported state media…

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, after the city council approved on Dec. 3 an agreement with LA28, the 2028 Olympic Games organizing committee. The city council voted 11–2 in favor of the agreement, with Councilmembers Nithya Raman and Mike Bonin disagreeing. The Olympics are expected to cost…

Commentary The recently completed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games were, in many respects, an unmitigated flop. NBC’s prime-time coverage averaged a paltry 12.9 million viewers, making for the weakest ratings since NBC first began airing the Summer Games in 1988. Overall, the Tokyo Games saw a 49 percent ratings drop since the previous Summer Games, 2016’s…

A long and arduous journey on and off the track ended in jubilation as Beth Shriever won Britain’s first BMX gold medal at the Olympic Games on Friday. A succession of injuries, the withdrawal of UK Sport funding, a cancelled “holiday of a lifetime” for her family, and the trials of training in lockdown were…