Tag Archive | Olympic Games
Posted on July 9, 2013. Tags: Amateurs, Avery Brundage, Golf Digest, Golf Pros, Imperialism, Olympic Games, Olympic Golf, Olympic Sport, Outrage, Professional Golfers, S Sports, Showcase, Sorry Folks, Stroke Play, Television, Throwback, Wrestling
A good solid article in Golf Digest on Olympic golf in 2016. And it’s coming: And some even want to see a throwback to the Avery Brundage era and limit the competition to amateurs. Sorry, folks, but today’s Olympic Games–in almost all sports–showcase the best athletes competing in the most popular formats. So, for golf, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on February 13, 2013. Tags: Amateur Sports, Beach Volleyball, Bronco Cup, Corporatization, Denver Bronco, Golf Tournaments, Mascots, Olympic Events, Olympic Games, Olympic Movement, Olympic Wrestler, One Life To Live, Pole Vaulting, Pro Golf, Professional Players, Professionalization, Rulon Gardner, Sports Olympics, Television Coverage, Wsj
I just found this article at the WSJ by Jason Gay. It has several gems in it. First the mighty Olympic wrestler whose “miracle on the mat” win in 2000, Rulon Gardner, says this about the IOC decision to ditch wrestling from the Games: “The Olympic movement used to be about amateur sports,” Gardner told […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on February 13, 2013. Tags: Abc News, Entire Season, Espn, Final Decision, Global Participation, International Olympic Committee, Ioc, Member Board, Olympic Games, Olympic Spirit, Pound Weight Class, Professional Basketball, Reality Show, Reality Tv Show, Record Crowd, Second Period, Show Time, Ticket Sales, True Motives, Tv Ratings, Weight Class
In an astounding move, the International Olympic Committee has put wrestling, that’s right, wrestling, out of the Olympic Games! Here’s the ABC news report; Here’s an ESPN report. The reasons stated, courtesy of the ESPN report: The board voted after reviewing a report by the IOC program commission that analyzed 39 criteria, including TV ratings, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on January 6, 2013. Tags: Amateur Event, Bob Costas, Defending Champion, Filip, Grimaldi, Guess, Hockey Championships, Hockey World Championships, Ice Hockey World Championships, Imperialism, Junior Ice Hockey, Minute Span, Olympic Games, Olympics, Power Play, Professional Athletes, Rocco, Sandberg, Second Period, Wikipedia
Here is a online poll in a Milwaukee newspaper on whether professional athletes should be in the Olympic Games and I urge my readers who agree with me that it is sports imperialism to vote NO! To show the sporting and balance in a more amateur event – the Junior ice hockey world championships were […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on December 13, 2012. Tags: Dr Gill, Electoral Reforms, Former Sports, Imperialism, Indian Government, Indian Sports, International Olympic Committee, Ioa, Ioc, Olympic Association, Olympic Games, Olympic Movement, Olympic Official, Olympics Sports, Paper Tigers, Professional Athletes, Remarkable Story, Sports Official, Term Limits, Unfairness, Verge, Visionary
There is a remarkable story that I must research further on the IOC suspending the India Olympic Association from the Olympic movement. I do not know what the facts are yet. But here’s an interview with a former Indian Sports Minister [Dr. R. S. Gill] who seems to be close to what is occurring in […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on November 28, 2012. Tags: Alaska, Curling Club, Curling News, Ioc, Leland, Match, Matching Funds, Media Exposure, Money, Old Dominion, Olympic Games, Olympic Hopeful, Olympic Hopefuls, Olympic Sports, Usa Curling, Usca Website, Usoc
I have long said I would never give a dime to the USOC or the IOC due to the pro athletes in the Olympic Games. BUT I never said, do not support sports or Olympic sports – just find a sport or Olympic hopeful to support and DIRECTLY give to them! Here’s a chance to […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on October 1, 2012. Tags: Amateur Competition, Amateur Competitions, Amateur Division, Amateur Sports, Basketball Teams, Cinderella, Imperialism, Ioc, Medals, Moneyed Interests, Ncaa, Ncaa Tournament, Olympic Games, Olympics, Other Sports, Pro Basketball, Professional Team, Sports Basketball, Sports Tennis, Usoc
I am still concerned about the Olympic Games. I have not backed off a bit: It’s still sports imperialism to have pro athletes at the Games because not every nation can field a professional team or train pro athletes in sports like tennis. But I realize that the IOC, the USOC and the moneyed interests […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on September 23, 2012. Tags: Amateur Sports, Ambush Marketing, Bye Law, Bylaw, Coach Trainer, Espn, Field Athletes, Forming A Union, Heart Of The Matter, International Olympic Committee, Ioc Chairman, Ioc Executive Board, Jacques Rogge, Olympic Athletes, Olympic Games, Olympic Participants, Olympic Sponsors, Person Name, Professionalization, Serena Williams
I was trying to decide how to feel about this article: Appalled or thrilled? I have a bit of both feelings based on who the parties are and their positions: On one side is the track and field athletes, prohibited by the (other side) IOC from even mentioning sponsors that have helped them get to […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 23, 2012. Tags: Association Usa, Ccva, Commonwealth, Curling Club, Generosity, Great Sport, National Championships, National Governing Body, Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Olympic Hopeful, Paralympics, Pro Sports, Programs Publications, Several Times, Sports Olympics, States Curling Association, United States Curling Association, Usa Curling, Usoc
I have said several times that to protest pro sports at the Olympics, don’t give money to the USOC but rather to a sport you support or an amateur Olympic hopeful you know. Now you can do both! Check here and you can support the great sport of curling (now in our Commonwealth due in part […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 15, 2012. Tags: Beach Volleyball, Beefcake, Dive Bars, Frat House, Good Measure, Hooliganism, Kerri Walsh, Lochte Ryan, Michael Callahan, Millionaires, Misty May Treanor, Nail Biter, Nbc Sports, Olympians, Olympic Games, Scantily Clad Women, Skeet Shooting, Sports Channel, Track And Field Events, Ugly American, Yachting
Before I leave the Olympic Games, I must give a shout out to Michael Callahan at the Philly Post who writes some awesome stuff and this is no exception! Somebody might think Callahan is anti-American but he is not: He’s just anti-ugly-American. A few highlights: But the next day, with NBC broadcasting on 50 channels, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 12, 2012. Tags: African Nation, Bahrain, Carlo Molfetta, Curling, French West Africa, Gabon, Heavyweight Division, Medals, National Anthem, National Hero, Olympic Games, Olympics, People, Persian Gulf, Silver Medal, Wins, Woman Athlete
Isn’t it exciting! Two new nations left the terrible never medalled at the Olympics club this summer: Gabon and Bahrain (who won with a woman athlete to boot!). Gabon is in former French West Africa and Bahrain, where we used to/still have a base, is an island in the Persian Gulf. Gabon’s medal came in […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 10, 2012. Tags: David Blatt, Dream Team, Gap, Global Basketball, Global Game, Imperialism, Independence From The Soviet Union, International Basketball, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Present System, S Sports, Sellout, Slave Trade, Superstars, Uproar, William Wilberforce, World Olympics, Yahoo Sports
We already know that the NBA blog and presumedly the players do not like the proposed Stern 23 and under rule for Olympic Basketball. And while it is not a complete victory, as William Wilberforce would say (he endorsed a neutral bill that had the tendency to eliminate 80% of the British slave trade), it […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 5, 2012. Tags: 1980 Winter Olympics, Chicago Tribune, Chick Fil, College Amateurs, College Kids, Dream Team, Dream Teams, Gold Medal, Miracle On Ice, Multimillionaire, Nba Players, Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Precious Opportunity, Pro Basketball Teams, Pro Experience, Total Commitment, True Spirit, Usa Usa, Winter Olympics
Chicago values might not include Chick-fil-A but this writer (Gerald D. Skoning) gets it right about the basketball! A few highlights: Stern said he hopes to make the Olympics a 23-and-younger event, returning it to the college kids and NBA players with only a few years of pro experience. That would be a good start, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 3, 2012. Tags: Amateur Team, Autograph Session, Basketball Game, Basketball Player, Better Chance, Cohort, Disrespect, Fast Breaks, Imperialism, Lebron, Mismatch, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Games, Olympic Spirit, Olympics Sports, Professional League, S Sports, True Competition, Tunisian, Usoc
156-73 I don’t know what to say I am so angry. I want to join the President Obama apology tour. This kind of outrageous mismatch is exactly the reason why the pro athletes must GO from the Olympic games. They skew the results so as to hinder true competition. They offend other nations needlessly. (And […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 30, 2012. Tags: Angola, Angolans, Basketball Team, Boxer, Dawani, Decider, Fencing, Gymnastics Team, Heading, Jordan, Kg, Medal Tracker, Nadin, Olympic Games, Olympics, Opponent, Pro Basketball, Puerto Rican, Rout, Sports Illustrated, Target, Velocity, Win Games
In what had to be a disappointing loss at the Olympic Games, Botswana boxer Oteng Oteng fell 14-12 to his Puerto Rican opponent: With the scores level heading into the decider, Oteng continued to box at velocity, wearing his opponent down. Two nice right hands from the Botswanian found the target, but the judges were […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 28, 2012. Tags: Angel Fly, Bit Of Heaven, Children Of God, Christ Jesus, Eternal Question, Eternal Truth, Everlasting Gospel, Fear God, Friendly Warning, Galatians 3, God Abideth, Heaven And Earth, Kindreds, Kjv, Olympic Games, Opening Ceremonies, Promise Worth, Revelation 5, Voice Fear, Wrath Of God
The NBC crew was very impressed with the diversity of the athletes in the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games and I am too! It actually mirrors what the Bible says (maybe surprisingly) about diversity. Try all these verses from Revelation: “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 25, 2012. Tags: 2012 Olympic Games, Attri, Eric Liddell, Finish Line, Fortitude, London 2012 Olympic Games, Muscle Pull, Niggling Injuries, Olympic Games, Olympic Team, Race Against Time, Rare Show, S 400, Semifinal Race, Seribe, Showpiece, Stumbling Block, Tight Grip, Worthy Contenders, Youngster
These two articles update us on the Botswana Olympic team. At least two of the five athletes were in a injury scare in this article from the Sunday Standard (note the unusual word in the title; I certainly would not ever use it but they speak British English in Botswana!) The two, men’s 400 meters […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 14, 2012. Tags: Adversity, Amateur Status, Bad Guys, Bleacher Report, Dream Team, Gold Medal, Internet Article, Lake Placid, Leviathan, Matt Hunter, Miracle On Ice, Olympic Games, Other Sports, Professional Athletes, Purses, Summer And Winter, Team Sports, Usa Hockey Team, Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics
This column in Bleacher Report by Matt Hunter in 2009 says it right: No pro athletes in the Olympics! Olympics today are filled with professional athletes in all team sports in both the summer and winter Olympic games. The Olympics has lost that edge that it once possessed. The youth and up and coming players […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 14, 2012. Tags: American Fans, Different Cultures, Dry Eye, Gold Medal, Medal Ceremony, Michael Callahan, Mutual Consent, National Anthem, National Pride, Olympic Games, Olympic Telecast, Personal Glory, Plain Fact, Shining Moment, Skin Crawls, Sportsmanship, Theatrics, Tiny Country, Wenzel, Xenophobia
I stumbled upon these articles by Michael Callahan in regards to the Olympic Games. He first called for people to not watch the Games at all: But it’s not the overblown theatrics of the modern Olympics that has me tuning out. It’s the plain fact that we have lost, in the zealous xenophobia that now […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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