May 18, 2013

Olympics: Bolt, Ennis win top Laureus awards

Jamaican runner Usain Bolt starts in the men's 400m race in Kingston

(Reuters) – Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and British heptathlete Jessica Ennis won the Laureus World Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards on Monday following their success at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The team of the year award went to Europe’s Ryder Cup team after their stunning victory over the United States at Medinah [...]

Olympic: IOC probes black market Olympic ticket scandal

LONDON (AP) — International Olympic officials have opened a high-level investigation into allegations that authorized representatives in more than 50 countries – including a national Olympic committee – were involved in selling London Olympics tickets on the black market for profit. The International Olympic Committee convened an emergency session Saturday to discuss a dossier of [...]

Olympics chairman says games can’t fix gender inequality

Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, speaks at the opening ceremony of the 5th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport in Los Angeles

(Reuters) – The chairman of the London 2012 Olympics said on Thursday that the Olympic committee needed to encourage more inclusiveness by countries that failed to send women to the games but cautioned that “sport is not the panacea for all ills.” “I think you can use sport in a way to encourage social change [...]