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Posted Friday 7/31/20 at 8:03PM EDT
Los Angeles Olympic Committee urges the International Olympic Committee to lift ban on anti-racism advocacy
The IOC rules currently states that "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any...
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A Streaming Guide to Missing the Summer Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics were supposed to kick off this weekend in Tokyo, with the opening ceremonies marking the beginning...
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Posted Wednesday 7/22/20 at 1:44PM EDT
Peacock launches an Olympics pop-up channel with one year to go before the Summer Games
The 24/7 “Road to Tokyo” channel, a collaboration with NBC Olympics, is dedicated to Olympic and Paralympic history, documentaries and...
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Posted Tuesday 7/21/20 at 3:34AM EDT
Summer Olympic Games were supposed to begin this week: In retrospect, it's ridiculous that postponement took so long
The International Olympic Committee waited until March 24 to officially postpone this year's Summer Olympics to one year from now...
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Posted Tuesday 7/21/20 at 3:34AM EDT
Watch Michael Phelps' The Weight of Gold HBO Sports documentary trailer
The Olympic champion swimmer is executive producer and subject in the documentary that examines mental health issues among Olympians, including...
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Posted Monday 6/29/20 at 10:43PM EDT
HBO's The Weight of Gold documentary to delve into mental health challenges of Olympic athletes
Michael Phelps, Lolo Jones, Bode Miller, Shaun White and other Olympic athletes are featured in the documentary, premiering July 29.
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Posted Thursday 5/07/20 at 10:05AM EDT
Bob Costas talks watching himself on The Last Dance and the potential for a Summer Olympics in 2021
Costas says he gets a kick out of watching old clips of when NBC had the rights to the NBA.
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Posted Tuesday 4/28/20 at 12:40PM EDT
If the coronavirus is still a threat in summer 2021, the Tokyo Olympics will be canceled instead of postponed to 2022
That's according to Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee.
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Posted Wednesday 4/22/20 at 9:43AM EDT
The TV industry has found creative work-arounds to get the job done during the coronavirus crisis
"Hollywood is an industry built on the work-around," says Mary McNamara, adding: "So it’s not surprising that even before COVID-19...
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Posted Friday 4/10/20 at 10:17AM EDT
Tokyo Olympics CEO says he can't guarantee the Summer Olympics will take place in 2021
“I don’t think anyone would be able to say if it is going to be possible to get it under...
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Posted Wednesday 4/08/20 at 10:27AM EDT
The Tokyo Olympic flame has been taken off public display
The Olympic flame arrived in Japan from Greece on March 26, just four days before the Summer Olympics were officially...
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Posted Monday 3/30/20 at 4:34PM EDT
ABC scraps The Bachelor Summer Games for this year following Tokyo Olympics delay
The Bachelor spinoff -- a follow-up to The Bachelor Winter Games - was intended to serve as counterprogramming for the...
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Posted Monday 3/30/20 at 9:39AM EDT
Rescheduled Tokyo Summer Olympics will kick off on July 23, 2021
The Tokyo Games, which will still be called the 2020 games despite being delayed by coronavirus, will have roughly the...
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Posted Friday 3/27/20 at 3:41AM EDT
NBC Universal reportedly isn't worried about Peacock launching without help from the Olympics
With 15,000 hours of content and people stuck at home, NBC Universal expects Peacock to be in demand when it...
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Posted Tuesday 3/24/20 at 7:49PM EDT
Without the Summer Olympics, NBC is poised to lose the full-season ratings war for the first time in seven years
NBC has topped the full-year September-to-September ratings period for most of the past decade.