With coronavirus vaccines expected to become more readily available by spring, U.S. Olympic leaders are considering whether to make inoculation mandatory for American athletes headed for the Tokyo Games this summer.
The Games, postponed a year because of the pandemic, are schedule to begin in late July. The International Olympic Committee has encouraged athletes to get vaccinated as a “demonstration of solidarity” with Japan but has put no requirement in place.
The issue is crucial for an American team that will bring hundreds of athletes from across a large country that has been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee continued discussions at a board meeting last week.
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USOPC statement on the Dec. 17 Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling 12/17/20
“On behalf of Team USA and the Olympic and Paralympic community in the United States, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee is gratified by the elements of the CAS ruling upholding WADA’s strong sanctions against Russian sport organizations, and deeply disappointed by other elements of the ruling that materially weaken these sanctions. With all other organizations and advocates who value clean sport and clean athletes, we need to understand further what will transpire next in this dark chapter for international sport.
What is clear at this point is that the blatant disregard shown for the rules and purpose of anti-doping regulations in this case has harmed clean athletes and gone further to erode confidence in the international anti-doping construct. Whatever the final effect of implementation of the CAS ruling, we must acknowledge that it is only the latest chapter in a terrible story of a cal
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(ATR) World Athletics and Infront bring their international media rights collaboration indoors.
World Athletics and Infront go indoors. (World Athletics/Victah Sailer)
A new agreement announced on Dec. 11 means Infront, a Wanda Sports Group company, will be responsible for sourcing international broadcasters for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings for the next three years.
The broadcast package for 2021 will include six meetings, beginning in Karlsruhe, Germany on January 29, and followed by Boston, USA; Lievin, France; New York, USA; Torun, Poland and Madrid, Spain.
The collaboration builds on Infront’s 10-year exclusive international media rights agreement for the World Athletics Continental Tour and five-year international media rights agreement for the Wanda Diamond League from 2025, both signed in September 2019.