Throughout the modern Olympic period, the host nation has had a home advantage. But crowds are not the only factor
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Calgary is the latest city to reject bidding for the Olympics. A lack of a vision for the city and a council concerned with short-term political gains explain why an Olympic plebiscite was defeated.
Doping controversy around British cycling and athletics is the latest sign that sports authorities need to do something drastic.
North Korea clearly understands that going straight into high-level negotiations isn’t always the way to make a breakthrough.
The science behind the suits that gave Britain’s medal-winning athletes a crucial speed boost.
Techniques and technology can help athletes perform at their best even in freezing temperatures.
Olympics have often provided the impetus for large-scale broadcasting innovations, such as when TV was introduced in Australia to broadcast the 1956 Games.
The politics of Russia’s Olympic doping ban.
The long winter Olympic journey from Chamonix in 1924 to PyeongChang in 2018.
The Olympic Games are an ideal venue to showcase new ideas to world. In a world where reducing carbon emissions is a priority, could the Olympics be doing more?
The joint South Korean-North Korean women’s Olympic hockey team has angered fans of the game and raised concerns about athlete morale. But the media spotlight is actually good for the game.
It’s not out of reach for the Australian Winter Olympic team to meet the Winning Edge targets of a top-15 finish on the medal tally.
Sexual abuse is a chronic condition that afflicts many other sports besides gymnastics.
North Korea sending a delegation to this year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea may be a global shadow puppet show – or it might help thaw the frozen relations between the two countries.
The ban on Russia competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics is unique: it is directly linked to the country’s lack of sporting integrity.
China can go into the 2022 Winter Olympics with a sense of ‘been there, done that’.
Whatever hoo ha about human rights and corruption gets attached to the Chinese Winter Olympics victory, it won’t be allowed to detract from the event itself.
What has Beijing gotten itself into?
The International Olympic Committee will choose between two non-democratic countries – China and Kazakhstan – for the 2022 Winter Olympics. A sign of things to come?
Last year, the inhabitants of Bavaria overwhelmingly voted against Munich even bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Ludwig Hartman, a member of the Green Party in the Bavarian state legislature…
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