TSX RECAP: IOC candidate Coe says more sport is the key; IOC chief Bach says $14B in pipeline to 2032; Benjamin: minimum $5 million for Olympic golds

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≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡ ?

● INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: Presidential candidate – and World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe (GBR) insists sport must be first and wants to use the untapped abilities of IOC members to further the movement. He declared, "We should be defining ourselves as a sporting organization that has the ability to transform the lives of young people through sport.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/3FlDJKd

● INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: As his term as President nears its end, IOC chief Thomas Bach (GER) pointed to the organization’s strong finances and promising future. Asked when he’ll after he finishes in June: "The first four weeks I guess I will sleep.”? Read more here: https://bit.ly/4kurmM5

● ATHLETICS: U.S. Olympic gold medalists Noah Lyles and Rai Benjamin both panned Grand Slam Track on their "Beyond The Records" podcast, but hope it succeeds. Benjamin said he thinks Olympic gold medalists should get $5 million in prize money, “minimum.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/41ByhKG ?

≡ PANORAMA ≡ All items available in a single post here.

● Milan Cortina 2026: The Russian Sports Minister says he has little hope for a proper Russian team – with flags and anthem – for 2026, but is still hopeful. He said a men’s hockey tournament without Russia is “stupid.”

● Athletics: World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe told reporters in Kenya that the country is moving in the right direction in terms of getting doping under control, but said there will be more suspensions as better detection systems are in place.

● Cross Country Skiing: A group of four athletes, including two Americans, negotiated with an anti-oil activist group in Norway to prevent a protest during Saturday’s men’s 50 km Freestyle race at the FIS Nordic World Championships. They will take a proposal for future action to the federation in June.?

● Football: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Friday, creating a FIFA World Cup 2026 Task Force, with himself at the head of it, to ensure good coordination of government services. (Pictured above: Trump with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the FIFA Club World Cup trophy; photo: Gianni Infantino on Instagram.)

● Snowboard: Former Canadian snowboarder Ryan Weeding, who competed in the Parallel Giant Slalom in 2002, is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives List, for drug trafficking and murder. A $10 million reward is being offered for information leading to arrest and/or conviction.

● Swimming: After withdrawing as USA Swimming chief executive-to-be, Chrissi Rawak will not continue as the athletic director at the University of Delaware.? ?

≡ RESULTS ≡

● Alpine Skiing: Another record for Mikaela Shiffrin, who won a Slalom bronze at the FIS women’s World Cup in Are (SWE), giving her the most-ever career World Cup medals – 156 – breaking a tie with Swede Ingemar Stenmark. Italy’s Federica Brignone won Saturday’s Giant Slalom, increasing her seasonal lead.?

? Italy’s Dominik Paris won his 23rd and 24th career World Cup golds in Downhill and Super-G races in Kvitfjell (NOR).?

● Athletics: Terrific European Indoor Championships, with world leads in eight events, plus three-peats from Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) in the men’s 1,500/3,000 m and Olympic champ Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) in the women’s high jump.?

● Badminton: Korea topped the BWF World Tour Orleans Masters in France, with Olympic women’s champ Se-young An taking the women’s Singles title.?

● Biathlon: Four more wins for France in the IBU World Cup at Nove Mesto (CZE), with Worlds gold medalists Emilien Jacquelin and Julia Simon both taking individual events and the French teams winning both relays.?

● Bobsled & Skeleton: At the first weekend of two in the IBSF Worlds in Lake Placid, Britain’s Matt Weston and Kimberley Bos won the Skeleton titles, with the U.S. getting a win in the Mixed Team event.

? In the women’s Monobob, it was American Kaysha Love – a former UNLV sprinter – getting her first world title, with veteran star Elana Meyers Taylor third! Germany’s Francesco Friedrich’s sled won the Two-Man title for the ninth time in the last 10 Worlds.?

● Cycling: Two big names won the men’s and women’s Strade Bianche in Italy, with Slovenian superstar Tadej Pogacar riding away with the men’s race for the third time in the last four, and Dutch star Demi Vollering taking the women’s race with a late surge.?

● Fencing: Italy won three of four events at the FIE Foil World Cup in Egypt, with Guillaume Bianchi getting the men’s gold and the Italian men’s and women’s teams beating the U.S. to win both events.?

● Gymnastics: American Brandon Dang made his debut at the FIG Apparatus World Cup, in Baku (AZE) and won on Pommel Horse, ahead of fellow American Patrick Hoopes. Uzbekistan’s amazing 49-year-old Oksana Chusovitina won the women’s Vault!

● Judo: At the IJF World Tour Linz Grand Prix in Austria, Italy, Georgia and Japan each won two classes. Italy’s wins came on the same day from the Esposito brothers!

● Nordic Skiing: Amazing performance at the FIS Nordic Skiing Worlds in Trondheim (NOR), as Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo competed a gold-medal sweep of the men’s races: four individual wins and both relays. It’s never been done before. On the women’s side, Sweden won all six races, but not with one person in all six!

? Norway’s retiring Jarl Magnus Riiber concluded with a second individual win in the Nordic Combined, giving him a career total of 15 Worlds medals, including 11 golds!

? The Slovenian Prevc family dominated the ski jumping, with teen Nika taking her second women’s title, this time off the Large Hill and older brother Domen winning the men’s Large Hill, on the final weekend!?

● Ski Mountaineering: Swiss Remi Bonnet was the star of the ISMF World Championships in Morgins (SUI), winning the Individual Race for his second gold, defending both of his titles from 2023.?

● Snowboard: Britain’s Charlotte Bankes won Sunday’s women’s Snowcross in Georgia to give her five wins in seven events held this season.?

● Swimming: The Tyr Pro Swim Series opener was in Westmont, Illinois, with Paris Olympian Shaine Casas winning six men’s events (!) including three with world-leading times. Canadian Olympic star Summer McIntosh won three events, all in world-leading times, with all-time top-10 performances in the 200 m Butterfly and 400 m Medley! ?

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