TSX REPORT: Could Lyles win four Paris golds? Tokyo 2020 bid-rigging controller

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≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡

1. Lyles looking for fourth gold in 4×400 in Paris?
2. Pozdnyakov calls IOC’s Paris conditions “illegitimate”
3. Tokyo 2020 “inside man” for bid-rigging gets suspended sentence
4. Analysis: 4.5% of Women’s World Cup social comments flagged
5. Rio 2016 weightlifting gold winner banned for 8 years

● U.S. sprint star Noah Lyles was asked about a possible try at a fourth gold at the Paris 2024 Games in the 4×400 m relay and replied he’s ”not going to say no to that.” But it’s a longshot.

● The head of the Russian Olympic Committee called the International Olympic Committee’s restrictions on Russian participation in Paris in 2024 “unacceptable” and “illegitimate.”

● The internal coordination of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee’s bid-rigging scandal for test events and then venue management during the Games received, like everyone else in the case, a suspended sentence.

● The report of the FIFA Social Media Protection Service for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup noted that about 230,000 comments out of 5.1 million monitored were flagged for review, with 7,085 comments identified as abusive. The biggest target? The U.S. women’s team.

● Just as the International Testing Agency is beginning its re-analysis of the Rio 2016 doping samples, a 2022 doping suspension that resulted in the disqualification of the Rio 2016 weightlifting gold medalist from Kazakhstan at 77 kg for a prohibited method – urine substitution – was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

● World Championship: Handball (France and Norway advance to semis) ●

● Panorama: Paris 2024 (surfing confirmed for Tahiti) = On Screen (reasonable audiences for swimming and figure skating on U.S. TV) = Archery (new streaming service announced for 2024, right behind a new betting deal) = Athletics (World Athletics offering online meet-up with Indian heartthrob Chopra) = Basketball (U.S. to play two pre-Olympic exhibitions) = Freestyle Skiing (Canada’s Schmidts make Ski Cross history in Arosa) = Swimming (Whiffen and Ponti wins three individual golds each at Euro Short Course) = Tennis (Simon to move to Chair as new CEO coming to WTA) = Wrestling (World champ Elor among five UWW women of the year nominees) ●

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Lyles looking for fourth gold in 4×400 in Paris?

World Athletics men’s track Athlete of the Year Noah Lyles (USA) – winning of three World Championships golds in the 100, 200 and 4×100 m in 2023 – thinks there could be one more in Paris next summer!

In an interview with the French all-sports newspaper L’Equipe, he said:

“I’ve never had…