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BidWeek: The NBA Boycott And What We Can Learn From Olympic Actions On Racial Injustice

BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – Unprecedented, again. The National Basketball Association (NBA) season came to a screeching halt Wednesday for the …

IOC To Award 2030, 2032 and 2034 Winter and Summer Games This Year

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has committed to awarding the next three unscheduled Olympics – the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games and 2032 Summer …

BidWeek: COVID-19 Threat To Tokyo 2020 Exposes How Human Frailty Is Beyond Olympic Comprehension

BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – The Olympics in Tokyo and Sapporo have been canceled. No, not for 2020 – but in 1940 when Japan’s Summer …

BidWeek: Why Salt Lake City Will Almost Certainly Host The 2034 Winter Olympics

BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – This week, gears were set into motion that will lead to Salt Lake City being elected to host the Olympic and …

BidWeek: Is India’s 2032 Olympic Bid In, Or Out? Why Transparency Matters With New IOC Process

BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – When information is scarce, a single sentence can be amplified exponentially – and mean different things. …

GamesBids’ Top Ten: Olympic Bid Stories Of 2019

GamesBids.com presents the twelfth annual Top Ten list of Olympic Bid Stories for 2019. These stories impacted the course of Olympic host city bids, or the …