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Groundhog Day: Ruzzia and its system of murder and manipulation
Investigative unit THE INSIDER exposes another shocking detail, yet not fully surprising: Russia’s Olympic doping and political hit squads are run by the same FSB unit. Discover how operatives manipulate sports while deploying nerve agents against Kremlin targets like Alexei Navalny.
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Naming and shaming! This cross-post from the investigative platform Josimar examines Infantino's FIFA empire: media manipulation, obstruction of journalistic work and widespread propaganda. As documented in this newsletter, these mechanisms apply to the Olympic world and, at its core, to the IOC.
Silence is complicity! A call to journalists and officials to fight against corruption in fencing
Off the record, fencers and officials complain; publicly, they claim resistance is "too risky". Two YouTubers exposing the sport's existential crisis challenge this culture of cowardly indifference. Marius Dobel-Ober issues a rallying cry: there is no neutral ground when dealing with autocrats.
Heraskevych case: once again, the IOC has deceived the world – and media outlets worldwide have fallen for it
What I outlined in Thursday's newsletter has been confirmed by CAS' Ad Hoc Division: Denis Oswald made the decision on Wednesday on behalf of the IOC Disciplinary Commission. The IBSF jury was instructed to act in accordance with IOC guidelines. The next day, the IOC pulled off its deception again.
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India’s Olympic bid slogan: stolen or just a brazenly stupid copy?
Representatives of India's dysfunctional sports system and their highly paid advisers at Burson & Co have a simple fact to explain: they are presenting a slogan that one of the world's most important National Olympic Committees has been using for years and has registered as a trade mark.
Back to the future: Coventry's next cheap trick
The IOC presents a handbook for the 2036 Olympic bid, but has yet to provide the most important documents and rules. The greater involvement of IOC members in the selection process emphasised at the June Session has not been implemented. On the contrary, power remains with the Executive Board.
UIPM bids for Obstacle Racing at Brisbane 2032
Pentathlon leaders have applied to the IOC for a second Olympic discipline: Ninja 100m. They blame a compressed IOC timeline for the speed of the internal decision. Though, Vice President Viacheslav Malishev says the Executive Board had been kept in the dark about the IOC’s letter for eleven days.
Global sport's crisis isn't just FIFA: the IOC and other Olympic federations were engineered for presidential power
Patrick Nally built world sport's first global sponsorship programmes – and watched Horst Dassler turn commercial control into political power. He says the Infantino affair is not a FIFA but a system problem; the IOC and most federations sit inside the same architecture: presidential-style fiefdoms.