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\u2605 To get the daily Sports Examiner Recap by e-mail: sign up here<\/a>! \u2605<\/p>\n \u2261 THE 5-RING CIRCUS \u2261<\/p>\n \u25cf Olympic Winter Games 2026: Milan Cortina \u25cf The Winter Games are over, but the torches remain.<\/p>\n There were some 10,500 torchbearers for the Games, for which 3,000 torches were produced. Now, those who carried the torch can ask to purchase one<\/a> for \u20ac1,500 (about $1,737 U.S.), plus shipping and taxes. But there is only the existing production, and no more!<\/p>\n \u25cf Olympic Winter Games 2030: French Alps \u25cf The 2030 organizing committee is proposing to continue ski mountaineering<\/a> \u2013 a sport in which the French are dominant \u2013 for 2030 and to add to the Individual race to the Sprint and Mixed Relay.<\/p>\n The addition is to be considered by the IOC Session, meeting in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n \u25cf International Federations \u25cf The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) released its sixth Governance Review<\/a> report, updating the prior edition in 2024. The summer federations were graded according to transparency, integrity, democracy, development and sustainability and control mechanisms.<\/p>\n A perfect score would have been 240 and the target minimum score for continuing federations was 150. The distribution of the scores ranged from 150 to 228 for 31 full members, with five associate members (*) varying widely:<\/p>\n \u25cf A1 (14 federations: 210-228): aquatics, athletics, badminton, baseball-softball*, basketball, cycling, equestrian, football, rowing, rugby, table tennis, tennis, triathlon, volleyball.<\/p>\n \u25cf A2 (7:185-209): fencing, gymnastics, hockey, sailing, sport climbing, taekwondo, wrestling.<\/p>\n \u25cf B (13: 150-184): archery, canoeing, cricket*, golf, handball, judo, lacrosse*, modern pentathlon, shooting, skateboarding, squash*, surfing, weightlifting.<\/p>\n \u25cf C (1: 135-149): American football*.<\/p>\n \u25cf D (1: sub-135): boxing*.<\/p>\n The mean scores for all federations rose slightly to 192.7 from 189.4 in 2024.<\/p>\n \u25cf Athletics \u25cf Auburn\u2019s Ja\u2019Kobe Tharp <\/a>\u201capologized\u201d for his 12.75 world record in the heats of the men\u2019s 110 m hurdles on Wednesday at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m speechless. I didn\u2019t mean to.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew going into this meet I would be in really good shape because we started deloading to hit my peak into this meet. It was about executing and doing it. I\u2019m always only focused on me. I knew what I was capable of. I knew I had something faster than 13.0 in my legs.\u201d<\/p>\n The world record was reported as the first at the NCAA Championships since Dwight Stones set one in the high jump in Philadelphia in 1976, competing for Long Beach State (and, of course, Stones was calling the meet for ESPN!). Tharp will be in the 110 m hurdles finals on Friday, trying to defend his 2025 title.<\/p>\n \u00b6<\/p>\n The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon in South Africa was announced Wednesday<\/a> as the eighth World Marathon Majors race and first in Africa.<\/p>\n Cape Town joins Tokyo, Boston, London, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago and New York, and will formally enter the series on 23 May 2027. The 2026 race had a reported 16,351 finishers with Ethiopia\u2019s Mohamed Esa winning the men\u2019s race in 2:04.55 and Dera Dida taking the women\u2019s race 2:23:18.<\/p>\n World Marathon Majors status is expected to increase the economic impact of the race to possibly more than $48 million U.S. per year!<\/p>\n A ninth World Marathon Major is in the works \u2013 the Shanghai Marathon in China \u2013 which will be reviewed after its 6 December 2026 race.<\/p>\n \u00b6<\/p>\n There were only maybe 1,000 fans at Saturday\u2019s USA Track & Field Lone Star Grand Prix meet in College Station, Texas, but the meet did well on television.<\/p>\n NBC confirmed \u201ca Total Audience Delivery of 757,000 viewers across NBC, Peacock, and NBC Sports Digital properties.\u201d Track & field on NBC has consistently done well, with up to a million or so viewers, vs. other meets which draw around 300,000 on cable and smaller networks.<\/p>\n \u25cf Bobsled & Skeleton \u25cf The International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation<\/a> elected long-time federation Secretary General Heike Groesswang (GER), 56, as its new President at its Salzburg Congress.<\/p>\n She received 27 votes out of 45, to win over Ander Mirambell (ESP: 10), Dr. Nelson Christian Stokes (JAM: 5) and Martins Dambegs (LAT: 3). Groesswang has been the IBSF Secretary General since 2012 and replaced Italian Ivo Ferriani (2010-26).<\/p>\n Six IBSF Vice Presidents were elected, which included American Tuffield Latour as Vice President of Sport.<\/p>\n \u25cf Tennis \u25cf Serena Williams\u2019 comeback Doubles adventure at the Queen\u2019s Club Championships in London (GBR) are over as partner Victoria Mboko (CAN) suffered a right knee injury in her Singles match and has had to withdraw.<\/p>\n Williams will play next he will also be competing in the Berlin Tennis Open in Germany that starts on the 15th, again in Doubles, this time with Czech Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n \u00b6<\/p>\n \u2605 Receive our exclusive, weekday TSX Recap by e-mail by clicking here<\/a>.
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