kriminalität
Hat das olympische Boxen eine Zukunft über die Sommerspiele 2024 hinaus? Die Frage ist nicht neu, doch sie dürfte zeitnah beantwortet werden. Entscheidungen des IOC-Exekutivkomitees werden erwartet – und damit auch die endgültige olympische Suspendierung des Weltverbandes IBA.
russia
While World Athletics president Sebastian Coe sides with democratic nations, the IOC President Thomas Bach rejects their statements on Russia's war of aggression as uninformed and a violation of sport’s autonomy.
doping
Einst dichtete Ines Geipel, die Teilung Deutschlands habe sich in ihrem Bauch abgespielt. Nun werde der gesamte Osten destabilisiert, weil nicht die ganze Welt ihren Darstellungen glaubt. Es geht nicht kleiner. Geipel kann nicht anders. Über eine MDR-Dokumentation. Über Dichtung und Wahrheit.
exclusive
"The IOC is not the official body representing sport", writes the Secretary General of a non-Olympic federation. This letter can be seen as a direct attack on the IOC leadership. It is tantamount to blasphemy. However, the fight against the dissolution of the GAISF comes too late.
gaisf
A great majority of non-Olympic sports federations may be ready to weaken their position vis-à-vis Olympic federations if they vote to dissolve their common association GAISF at a General Assembly on 29 November. This will further strengthen IOC’s grip on world sport.
russia
The IOC and the Olympic federations are obliged to punish Russia and its warmonger, Vladimir Putin. Jens Weinreich calls for a comprehensive independent criminal investigation of the longstanding deep connection of the Olympic institutions with the Kremlin within the framework of the EU.
beijing 2022
Kamila Valieva' doping case raised questions about a minimum age for Olympic athletes. The Games thrive on high-performing children – some of them so young that they are not even allowed to compete in the Youth Olympic Games. Children are vulnerable to authoritarian states chasing medals and glory.
russia
For decades there has been speculation about information and possibly incriminating material on IOC members and other big names that might be stored in Moscow's secret service archives. If anyone had access to compromat, it was Vladimir Putin. The spying activities span half a century.
investigative journalism
The most important investigative Olympic journalist has died in the year of the sporting rogue states, with mega events in China and Qatar, with propaganda on a gigantic scale. We honor the legacy of Andrew Jennings by not letting 2022 go unchallenged.
propaganda
Under the guise of COVID, a thousand things are tightened up and arbitrarily adapted in China, just as it suits the state and party leader Xi Jinping, holder of the Olympic Order, and his IOC business partners. Of course, freedom of the press is not guaranteed there.
olympic crime
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah has been sentenced to prison. Our author has observed the Kuwaiti Sheikh for many years and has been threatened by the Sheikh’s aides several times. He describes the methods that brought Ahmad to power and the implications of the conviction for Al-Sabah and the Olympic system.
obituary
An incomparable era is coming to an end. In 97 years of the FIS, there have only been 5 presidents, 70 years of which two Swiss men determined the course of events in their federation. In these 97 years, the Catholic Church has had 8 popes, at least. An obituary for Gian Franco Kasper (1944 - 2021).