TSX REPORT: Wasserman warns of college-sport implosion; Kiplimo & Chebet repeat

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≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡

1. Wasserman: “if we lose that system, we don’t have Team USA any more”
2. France asks 46 countries for security help
3. Now a Paris poll showing Olympic interest split by politics
4. Kiplimo and Chebet repeat at World Cross Champs
5. France’s Marchand stars again at NCAA swim champs!

● LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman was on The Rich Eisen Show on the Roku Channel last Friday and explained that U.S. Olympic-sport development is in danger due to the continuing aggregation of money around college football, and suggested that the NFL could be a leader in finding a solution.

● France made the usual request of Olympic host countries and asked for security assistance from friends, in this case, 46 other countries for people, systems and things.

● A new poll in Paris showed a divide – of course – in the French population about the 2024 Olympic Games … by political affiliation!

● The 2024 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Belgrade saw the same winners as in 2023: Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet. Kenya won both the men’s and women’s team titles.

● At the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, Arizona State won its first team title and French star Leon Marchand won three individual events, set three collegiate records, helped win two relays and two second-place finishes for 97 points  by himself! He’s on course to be the face of the Paris Games for France in the pool.

● Panorama: Athletics (world leads at the Texas and Florida relay meets and a 37.67 men’s 4×1!) = Bobsled & Skeleton (Del Duca and Hoffman get two wins each at U.S. nationals) = Cycling (van der Poel solos, Longo Borghini sprints to Ronde van Vlaanderen wins) = Gymnastics (two wins for Turkey at FIG World Challenge Cup in Antalya) = Judo (five wins for Japan, three for France at Antalya Grand Slam) = Table Tennis (Liang and Sun win WTT Champions in Incheon) = Triathlon (indoor triathlon World Cup debuts inside an indoor track facility in France!) = Weightlifting (IWF Secretary-General creates the federation’s anthem!) ●

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Wasserman: “if we lose that system, we don’t have
Team USA any more”

The crisis in collegiate athletics, created by the enormous financial control of football, needs to be fixed, in part to assure that all the other sports survive.

Casey Wasserman, the chair of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, visited The Rich Eisen Show on the Roku Channel last Friday and had some clear ideas about not only what the stakes are, but how it might get worked out.

It’s complicated, but Wasserman, who…