CARLOS NUZMAN

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games.

Lamine Diack, the controversial long-time leader of track and field who was convicted of extorting money from athletes and accused of taking bribes in an Olympic hosting vote, has died.

The northern Japanese city of Sapporo became a frontrunner to land the 2030 Winter Olympics after the mayor talked up a plan that he says will cut the costs of holding one of sports’ most expensive events.

The northern Japanese city of Sapporo is set to announce what it says will be a reduction in costs that will make it an attractive venue for the 2030 Winter Olympics.

The former head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.

Stutzman is among several Paralympic athletes who are profiled in the Nexflix documentary Rising Phoenix that will be released in 190 countries on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. If your mood is being dragged down by the pandemic, you'll be uplifted by these three Paralympic athletes and many others like them who are profiled in the Nexflix documentary Rising Phoenix, which will be released in 190 countries on Wednesday. In the Paralympic sport, everybody has a story, Xavi Gonzalez, the former CEO of the International Paralympic Committee, says in the film. The documentary weaves the history of the Paralympic Games around the athletes' lives and the financial ups and downs of the movement. And in the Paralympics, none of the bodies look the same.Or Stutzman, known as the Armless Archer, who grew up wanting to be basketball player Michael Jordan.