On Saturday, the board of USA Swimming moved forward a plan to ban tech swimming suits for juniors younger than 13. The proposal will now go to a vote by the organization’s house of delegates in September. The suits are believed to give swimmers a significant edge over opponents wearing lower-tech clothing, but put an […]
NEW YORK — The biggest expenditure and colossal headache facing almost every Olympic host city is the need to build a series of new venues. Compounding the matter are the inevitable construction delays and cost overruns during the seven years from its bid being selected to actually hosting the Games themselves. The Los Angeles 2028 Games, […]
Caster Semenya’s career might soon be over. The International Association of Athletics Federations has announced new eligibility rules for women’s competitions, affecting running races between 400 meters and one mile. The regulations, which place limits on natural testosterone levels and androgen sensitivity, will come into effect on Nov. 1, and are expected to significantly impact […]
Intel has confirmed plans to shutter its wearables business after an unsuccessful few years trying to get it off the ground, but it remains heavily invested in the sports industry generally. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past five years attempting to build a wearables business that saw it dabbling in fitness […]
Panasonic has for the past year been testing VOGO’s VOGO Sport video distribution system in Japan, and recently at the Winter Olympics, it continued to try out the multi-video distribution for figure skating. While figure skating won’t be part of the Summer Olympics, the goal is to explore new ways to distribute live multi-angle videos […]
