The associate coach of the University of Texas, Erik Sullivan, was appointed the new American trainer of women’s volleyball.
Sullivan, an Olympic Libero in 2000 and 2004, succeeds Karch Karch Kiraly, who went to training the male national team after being an American women’s head coach since September 2012.
“Karch Kiraly left an incredible heritage, and I am determined to continue the work he did with this incredible team” Sullivan said in a press release. “My goal is to rely on a solid basis and create an environment where our athletes can develop their full potential while competition at the highest level. I can’t wait to work alongside this talented group of athletes while We are preparing for the challenges to come. “
Sullivan, 52, has been chief coach associated with Texas in the past 14 years, helping Longhorns with three national titles.
Before Texas, Sullivan spent three seasons as assistant at Nebraska. His first season in Lincoln coincided with the last season of Jordan Larson as a Husker player.
Larson, now 38, said in August that she had “probably” finished playing for the national team after four Olympic appearances.
Sullivan was also the American men’s team leader in the last three Olympic games.
American women won a medal in each of the last five Olympic games, including the first Olympic title of the Tokyo program in 2021.
This summer, the Quadrian world championship will be in Thailand.
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Karch Kiraly appointed the American male volleyball coach, symmetry for 2028 the Olympics
Karch Kiraly, who trained the American women’s volleyball team with the last three Olympic games, will now train men.
The “Cold Weather Advisory” warns anyone in Kansas City according to which “dangerously cold wind coolants as low as 20 below zero could cause frost on the skin exposed as little as 30 minutes”. And yet, Wednesday evening, with temperatures planned below 4 degrees Fahrenheit, Sporting Kansas City and Inter Miami should play a football match.
They were originally ready to open their seasons on Tuesday during the Concacaf Champions Cup, but snow in Kansas City led to a day’s postponement. On Wednesday, however, it could be even colder. At 7 p.m., when the match should start, the planned wind cooling is -9 degrees; At 9 p.m., he could fall to -11.
It will be colder than any match of the 29 years of history of Major League Soccer, and perhaps one of the coldest football matches ever recorded, anywhere.
And that has aroused a series of questions, in particular: Lionel Messi, the starless star of Miami, will she participate?
Inter coach of Inter, Javier Mascherano, assured journalists on Monday that Messi is “100% available”, regardless of the weather. “I can assure you that Leo will play,” said Mascherano.
But, with the game reprogrammed from Tuesday to Wednesday, Inter Miami reorganized its plans and should now go to Kansas City on Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the plans told Yahoo Sports. Naturally, fans are skeptical that Messi joins his teammates. And some wonder if the game should occur at all.
Why Miami against Kansas City will continue despite the cold
The Concacaf, the Director of Northern and Central Football, which led the Champions Cup, made the initial decision to reprogram the match from Tuesday to Wednesday “due to unfavorable weather conditions which should have an impact on the metropolitan region of Kansas City in the next 24 hours, including significant accumulation of snow, “he said in a press release on Monday.
“The decision,” he added, was “made to prioritize the safety of players and fans, and in close coordination with the two participating clubs and local authorities.”
Wednesday, snow is less worrying. We expect that we expect it on Tuesday evening. And the underground heating system of Children’s Mercy Park is expected to make the Sporting KC playable field.
The concern, instead, is hypothermia, or frostbite, or other health problems – from disease to standard injuries – which could arise from extreme cold.
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami may have no choice but to play in freezing time. (AP photo / Mike Carlson)
FifPro, an umbrella group representing players’ unions in the football globe “, recommends that training and matches be canceled and reprogrammed when air temperature is less than -15 ° C [5 degrees Fahrenheit] and when the temperature of the wind cooling is less than -27 ° C [-16.6 degrees Fahrenheit]. “”
But there are no Concacaf or FIFA rules that explain cold temperatures. In Kansas City, we expect the game to continue as planned (re) – in part because there is no room for an additional postponement on the calendar. This is the first step in a two -leg Knockout match. The second floor is scheduled for next Tuesday. And the first step in the next round is the following week. On weekends, from Saturday, there are MLS matches. (The first match of the Miami League, originally for Saturday at 2:30 p.m., was postponed at 7:30 am to host the 24 -hour postponement of the Concacaf.)
The only viable bypass solution would have been that Inter Miami agrees to welcome the first leg and go to Kansas City for the second stage next week – when KC temperatures will return to normal, until the 1950s. But Now it’s too late to turn your legs over. (When asked to confirm that the club was offered this option and explain why this change did not occur, the spokespersons of Inter Miami did not respond to messages. Concacaf did not respond to emails asking for comments.)
When is it too cold for football?
There are no rules in part because there are very little preceding for football in so cold weather. Most leagues in countries with icy winters, such as those in Scandinavia and Russia, break for January and February. The MLS seasons end in early December and start at the end of February, thus avoiding the worst winter months.
The coldest MLS match ever recorded was a match of March 3, 2019 in Colorado, which succeeded at 18 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest match between the MLS teams was the shock of February 20, 2018 between Colorado Rapids and Toronto FC in the Concacaf Champions League – which traditionally started a week or two before the regular MLS season.
This Colorado -Toronto match was around 5 degrees Fahrenheit at the start, and 3 degrees per conclusion, the cooling of the wind plunges well below -10 degrees.
It was then exceeded as the coldest high level game on the United States’s soil in January 2022, when the United States Male Male team played Honduras during a qualifying for the World Cup at Minnesota. The temperature of this day was 2 degrees Fahrenheit at kick -off, with wind cooling of -14. Honduras had to replace several players due to “extreme climatic conditions”.
Most of the controversies linked to weather conditions, however, focused on snow. The match on March 2 of last year between Real Salt Lake and Lafc, played on a snowy field in Utah, was described as “absolute joke” of the Lafc coach, Steve Cherundolo.
Generally, however, the clubs of cities in cold weather adopt unfavorable conditions. While Snow fell into Colorado before the Tuesday Champions Cup match between the rapids and the LAFC, the rapids seemed underlying the concern of Inter Miami concerning the conditions in Kansas City. (The nickname Inter is the herons.)
Globally, games are sometimes reported due to snow or heavy rains, but rarely because of the cold. In Siberia, a Russian Premier League match in 2018 was played in the midst of wind cooling -13 degrees Fahrenheit. The Russian football rules said that the teams could refuse to play if the temperatures fell below -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees fahrenheit), but this temperature that day at the start was -13.9 celsius (6.98 Fahrenheit). There is not such a rule in the Concacaf.
Thus, the Kansas City-Miami match will probably take place. Messi’s participation – which could compromise his health in the short and medium term, for the 2025 to come – is a decision for him and Inter Miami.
No tennis tournament is more precious to ESPN than the US Open. (Photo of Sarah Stier / Getty Images)
The United States Open will remain on ESPN in the foreseeable future, at no small cost.
ESPN announced on Wednesday that it has extended its relations with the tournament based in New York to a 12 -year agreement, pushing its ownership of rights until 2037. Athletics reports the price to $ 2.04 billion.
This amounts to around $ 170 million a year.
The ESPN agreement was previously expired after 2025, and this new gives the network exclusive rights in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. There will also be widened streaming rights and Sunday and last Sunday coverage of the Tournament on the ESPN broadcast partner in ABC.
Of ESPN:
“We are enormous proud of our 15 -year -old relationships with the USTA,” said ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro. “This agreement strengthens our long -term dedication to tennis, our ability to present one of the first events of the annual sports calendar and, as the world’s leading sporting event to offer equal handbags to its female and male competitors, The Walt Disney Company -Mending commitment to female sports. »»
ESPN also holds the rights of Wimbledon and the Australian Open, while the French Open should migrate from NBC and the TNT tennis channel in 2025, due to the agreement of $ 650 million in Warner Bros. Discovery.
The higher price of the United States is due to several factors, but the evidence is the advantage of the time zone of the only Grand Chelem based in the United States. The tournament has a larger domestic appeal than the rest of the Slams and frequently offers value beyond the programs thanks to the factor of celebrity of players and participants.
With Roger Federer and Serena Williams retired, Rafael Nadal about to join them and Novak Djokovic at 37, the agreement is also a bet that the world of tennis will provide new superstars in the next decade.
Bronze medalist Olympic floor an ana bărbosu announced a commitment to Stanford And could become the first Olympic medalist in Romania to participate in the gymnastics of the NCAA.
The Bărbosu position said that it would be part of the 2029 class, which would mean its debut for Cardinal next season.
Bărbosu, 18, won the first Olympic gymnastics medal in Romania in 12 years at the Paris Games, although a current call process involving Jordan Chiles’ American score can affect the results.
On August 5, Chiles initially won the floor bronze after an American survey on his difficulty score led to his increase in a tenth. This moved him from fifth place in the bronze position, passing from Romanians Sabrina Voinea and Bărbosu.
After a Romanian call, a panel of the Arbitration Court for Sport (case) on August 10 rose the chile scoring because the score investigation was recorded as submitted four seconds after the one minute period. Chiles was returned to fifth place. Bărbosu has become the bronze medalist.
September 16, It was announced that the peppers called The decision of the Court to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. Case decisions, the headquarters of which are in Switzerland, can be invoked before the Swiss Federal Court for limited procedural reasons.
The chile call has not yet been resolved. The appeal said that cases refused to examine the video evidence found on August 11 which showed that the investigation had been submitted in time.
Many Olympic medalists have participated in NCAA gymnastics, but almost all of them were American. This includes gymnasts active in peppers at UCLA and Jade Carey at Oregon State.
Amelie Morgan, bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympic team for Great Britain, is a senior in competition for UTAH.
Olympic games: gymnastics practices for women
Olympic champion Hezly rivera in gold at 16, commitment to LSU, and Dream of the 28
The American Olympic gold medalist, Hezly Rivera, shares her unforgettable journey to Paris and her passion to represent the Hispanic community.
“An agreement is almost there” – Newcastle United expects to close the signature of Barcelona and Real Madrid Target
Newcastle United has turned their attention to the Spanish market in recent years, and they almost seem to sign the signing of a talented young – who being Antonio Cordero.
Cordero, who is without a contract with Malaga at the end of the season, has become very demanding in the past few months. Barcelona and Real Madrid were both recognized for interested the talented 18 -year -old winger, while Arsenal recently joined the race alongside the Premier League Rivals Newcastle.
Despite all this interest, Newcastle seems to be the big favorite to win the signing of Cordero on a free transfer. According to the journalist for the transfer Graeme Bailey (via captivated captivates), the Magpies think that an agreement is almost concluded.
“Newcastle firmly thinks that an agreement is almost there. But obviously, you cannot say to define until it has this black and white shirt.
“This is a brilliant perspective. Newcastle did not immediately be a first team player. You never know how fast these players can progress. Does he stay with the U21 or do they lend it? Obviously, they will assess all these options once it has arrived. »»
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Cordero has made a name for himself in the Segunda this season, and he was one of Malaga’s most remarkable artists despite such a young age. It will be a huge loss for Andalusians when it goes there, especially since they will not receive transfer costs within the framework of the operation.
For Newcastle’s prospect, this is a very exciting matter if they can bring Cordeo to the club. It may not be considered immediately for the first team, but it will not be far in the next 12 months. For the moment, the case remains open, but the Premier League team hopes that it will be closed as soon as possible.
The problems of the LPGA with its South Korean partner in media rights did not end with a lost event. In addition to the unpaid invoices that have canceled the next FIR Hills Seri Pak championship, JTBC has also not paid for the dissemination of all LPGA events in 2024 and 2025. Golfer obtained a memo sent to LPGA players by the acting commissioner, Liz Moore, who described other details, in particular that JTBC had not “committed significantly or payment insurance”.
“To protect our interests, we file a complaint to enforce a warranty agreement with a JTBC affiliate to recover the unpaid amounts,” Moore wrote in a note sent to players on February 18.
“For the moment, we do not finish our agreements and will continue to honor our obligations to avoid disturbances in the coverage of the tournament in Korea. However, if JTBC does not respect its dissemination commitments, we are ready to implement alternative solutions. “
With the LPGA contract with JTBC expiring at the end of the year, the tour has already gone to the market to explore new options.
In January, the tour canceled the FIR Hills Seri Pak championship, scheduled from March 20 to 23, in Palos Verdes Estates, California, after declaring that an unnamed subscriber had not paid his bills for 2024 events and 2025. Golfer Later confirmed JTBC as an subscriber.
The rights of the media of JTBC with the LPGA date back to the Carolyn Bivens era as a commissioner, which officially entered into force in 2010, when Mike Whan was in charge. The original agreement, described in an LPGA press release in 2009, included JTBC subscription to an event on the LPGA in Southern California as well as the title sponsoring the 2009 Phoenix LPGA.
The JTBC media rights agreement is unusual insofar as the LPGA obtains a sum of money and a certain number of events, then in turn, JTBC can recover part of this money by selling the advantages of the ‘event to a third party at its discretion.
The JTBC name has been attached to a number of tournaments over the years, such as the Hugel-JTBC the Open, which later became the Hugel-Air La Open. From 2014 to 2016, the tour held the JTBC Founders Cup in Phoenix. Sometimes JTBC appeared in the title, and sometimes, as in the case of Fir Hills, this was not the case.
The LPGA would then use JTBC media rights funds for its general operating budget.
Nelly Korda of the United States poses with the World Golf Hall of Famer was laughed after winning the Fir Hills Seri Pak championship at the Palos Verdes Golf Club on March 24, 2024 in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
This year’s Fir Hills event, won by N ° 1 Nelly Korda in 2024, was to be held at the Palos Verdes Golf Club and with a 2 million dollars handbag. However, the total cost of the title sponsorship would have exceeded the value of the handbag, probably about $ 3 million.
The rights of the South Korean media has long been essential to the health of the tour, although with the best players from a certain number of different countries, the portfolio of the rights of the tour of the tour is now more diverse.
At the end of last year, Golfer said the LPGA had to lose around $ 2 million in 2024. This could increase considerably in 2025.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: the South Korean Radio-Radio partner of LPGA did not pay 2024, 2025
Lewis Hamilton hopes to direct Ferrari’s load in the Formula One 2025 – Getty Images / Mark Sutton season season
The one 2024 formula season ended with Max Verstappen as pilot champion for the fourth consecutive year, but that does not tell the whole story. McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes have all won several races with McLaren winning their first manufacturers’ championship in 26 years.
The first action of 2025 is not too far. After a lot of media threshing, Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari after more than a decade in Mercedes. He had his first outing in the famous red car in Maranello as he continued his acclimatization program.
As always, there is not too much time before the start of the 2025 season by pre-season tests in Bahrain, then the Australian Grand Prix for the opening of the season. Here is a bottom on everything you need to know before what could be one of the great years of F1.
When do pre-season tests take place?
As for last season, the 2025 season will only have one official pre-season test. This takes place from Wednesday, February 26 to Friday, February 28, included at the International Circuit Sakhir in Bahrain. It has not yet been confirmed, but the format should be three days of two four -hour sessions with a one hour lunch break between the two.
When is the first race of the 2025 season?
Unlike 2024, the new season begins with the Australian Grand Prix in Albert Park in Melbourne. This takes place from Friday March 14 to Sunday March 16.
The F1 season begins in Melbourne for the first time since 2019 – Getty Images / Chris Putnam / Future Publishing
How many races will there be in 2025?
For the second time in the history of F1, the season will include 24 Grand Prix and six sprint races, ending in the season final in Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi on December 8.
When and where are sprint races?
They are in China, Miami, Belgium, Austin, Sao Paulo and Qatar. The format will remain the same in that there will be sprint qualifications to define the grid for the Sprint race and eight world championship points are allocated for the winner to a point for the eighth finisher.
In short, the weekends of the Sprint 2024 race are as follows.
Chinese Grand Prix, March 21-23
Miami Grand Prix, May 2-4
Belgian Grand Prix, from July 25 to 27
Grand Prix of the United States, from October 17 to 19
Sao Paulo Grand Prix, November 7-9
Qatar Grand Prix, November 28-30
When is the summer break?
2024 contained both an official summer break – including a compulsory two -week stop period for all the staff of the F1 team – and an unofficial fall break with three weekends in a row. However, this has disappeared from the 2025 calendar with the races generally a little more spread.
July and August may be less eventful than they were, with a three-week gap between the British Grand Prix on July 6 and the Belgian Grand Prix on July 27. This year’s summer break begins after the Belgian Grand Prix, on Monday August 4. The action returns on Friday August 29 with the practice of the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort.
What do new car deliveries look like?
The cars of the 2025 F1 class were unveiled with the very first unified launch event of the sport, which took place at the O2 Arena on Tuesday, February 18. While the cars they take at tests will probably be different with regard to aerodynamic parts, deliveries are those in which the teams will run for the coming season.
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The Sauber Team Kick Sauber livery is presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England.
Williams FW47
The Williams livery was presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England.
Haas VF-25
Oliver Bearman from Great Britain and Haas F1 Esteban Ocon de France and Haas F1 with the presentation of the team’s livery during F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England
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The new Formula 1 team of the Bulls Racing Bulls Formula One is presented during the launch event of the Formula 1 – 2025 “F1 75 Live” season in London in London
Alpine A525
The Alpine livery for the 2025 season was launched during the live launch event F1 75 at the O2, London. Image date: Tuesday February 18, 2025
Aston Martin AMR25
The Aston Martin F1 team is presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, England,
Mercedes W16
The Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team is presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, England.
Red Bull RB21
Max Verstappen of the Netherlands and Oracle Red Bull Racing Waves at the crowd during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England.
Ferrari SF-25
The Scuderia Ferrari is presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England.
McLaren MCL39
The McLaren is presented during the F1 75 live at the O2 Arena on February 18, 2025 in London, in England.
What are the pilot programs?
There are quite a few changes to the grid in 2025, Sergio Perez being released by Red Bull the latest news. There are also no six recruits of the season in the middle of the grid. Yes, Oliver Bearman, Jack Doohan and Liam Lawson all participated in races, but none of them started a season before. They are joined by Kimi Antonelli in Mercedes, Isack Hadjar in RB and Gabriel Bortoleto in Sauber, who have never run in F1.
There are also changes elsewhere while Lewis Hamilton makes his Ferrari debut, Carlos Sainz moves to Williams, Esteban Ocon passes to Haas and Nico Hulkenberg moves from Haas to Sauber.
What is the full calendar of 2025?
How to watch F1 on TV and streaming
As has been the case for some time now, in the United Kingdom, Sky Sports F1 has almost exclusive coverage rights for the season. They will show all training sessions, qualification sessions, sprint qualifications and races throughout the season. Pre-season test also probably.
Channel 4 will again have its strong qualifications and its highlights, with the British Grand Prix in July Broadcast Live.
If you are outside the United Kingdom, you can also subscribe to the F1TV of F1 for monthly costs throughout the season.
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Coco Gauff, the US Open reigning champion, will now go to the third round. (Photo by Charly Tribalel / AFP via Getty Images)
(Charly Triballeau via Getty Images)
US Open 2024 continued on Wednesday with a solid slate of tennis stars, notably Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic among those who strive by the title of Flushing Meadows.
The female and defending champions both had moments of discomfort – literally in the case of Djokovic – but both qualified in the third round without dropping a set.
After a difficult first set, Gauff managed to win Tatjana Maria’s victory in two sets, surviving the German player to the third round. Although Gauff was able to use her athletics to her advantage, Maria made him work in the first set, forcing her all around the field.
Gauff took the first match with relative ease, but quickly died in 2-1 after a very maria effort. Gauff finished things with a few solid games and finally took an advance of 5-3 after winning a long game with several equality breaks. Maria took advantage of a few uns forked mistakes to do it 5-4 and get in a GAUFF’s advance match. Gauff then remained creative, obtaining the advantage after a delicate drop of drop in the inner corner.
At the point of filming, Gauff’s confidence apparently hesitated, and it lost the advantage after another double fault, its seventh of the whole. A long rally at the breakdown was strangely interrupted by the electronic detection system, although the ball is well inside the line, forcing Gauff and Maria to replay the point. Finally, Gauff, visibly frustrated by her performance so far, has been able to take the first set after Maria hit the ball in the net.
Gauff was much stronger in the second set, quickly capturing the first three games. Maria made him work for the fourth, but Gauff was finally able to take the lead 4-0. Gauff, having largely tired Maria, 37, then took the following two games to win the 6-4, 6-0 match.
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GAUFF also fought against errors, making nine double defects and more than 20 unrefitted errors (mainly in the first set) to complicate what should have been an easy victory. In the end, however, Gauff was able to win the victory.
She was back on the training court a few minutes later.
Djokovic had a similar problem in the next match at the Arthur Ashe stadium, faced with a rigid test of his Serbian compatriot Laslo Djere in a 6-4, 6-4, 2-0 victory.
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Djere appeared about to put a fear in Djokovic for two hours in a row, but continued to go up. Djokovic, who had coaches working on his chest at one point, saved three points of break in the first set before obtaining his own break to steal the first set.
Djere paused in the second set, but Djokovic responded with two consecutive breaks to catch another set. Once he increased 2-0 in the third, Djere retired from the match, having undergone a knee operation earlier this year.
In other big matches in the slate, the Americans Emma Navarro and Madison Keys both won victories in two sets to go to the third round. On the men’s side, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe will compete in a fully American third round match after the two won in the second round.
Report: the reasons for Chido Obi Martin at the exit of Arsenal were clear
Chido Obi -Martin did not leave Arsenal for lack of money – it was rather the time for play, according to reports.
The youngster defected between the competitors of the Premier League last year, but that had nothing to do with the obtaining of a larger package of remuneration.
The Daily Mail reports that “the feeling he had a better shot to crack the first team”.
Now Arsenal has seen two of their promising young talents, Chido Obi and Ayden Heaven, go to Man United in a few months.
Obi has already made his senior debut for Manchester United, in a match against Tottenham, while Heaven was included on the bench for the last two games of United under Ruben Amorim.
What Fabrizio Romano said about the two starts for Arsenal
Despite the initial disappointment, Arsenal does not dwell on departures, according to Fabrizio Romano, the club made serious efforts to keep the two players, offering them competitive contracts, but finally respected their decisions to pass.
Writing for Givemesport, Romano explained: “Arsenal was disappointed when Chido Obi left in summer and Ayden Heaven followed in January, while they were trying to keep both and offered important contracts. But no one loses sleep.
“The club did everything they could, and ultimately, Arsenal always produces the best talents. Mikel Arteta trusts the long-term academy, as we see with Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly. »»
While Arsenal wanted to keep the two players, they were much less concerned with losing the sky compared to Obi.
The US government has retained its annual financial contribution to the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA), increasing tensions between American stakeholders and AMA on the efficiency and transparency of the anti -doping organization.
The ADAD and the American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) confirmed on Wednesday that the United States had refused to pay the $ 3.6 million it had promised to the AMA as part of its normal financing process for 2024. The New York Times indicated that the decision to retain funding was manufactured by the White House in consultation with Congress, on concerns concerning AMA management of a case in 2021 in which 23 swimmers Chinese were discreetly eliminated after having tested positive for the same prohibited substance.
“Adad must take concrete measures to restore confidence in the global anti -doping system and provide athletes with full confidence they deserve,” the White House said in a press release, which reported the New Wednesday. “When the dollars of American taxpayers are allocated, we must ensure complete responsibility and it is our responsibility to guarantee that these funds are used in an appropriate manner.”
The White House press office did not immediately respond to a message from USA Today Sports.
USADA CEO, Travis Tygart, said in a statement that he had made this decision as “the only good choice to protect the rights of athletes, responsibility and equitable competition”.
“Unfortunately, the current AMA leaders have left the United States without any other option after omitting several very reasonable requests, such as an independent audit of AMA operations, to achieve the necessary transparency and responsibility To ensure that the AMA is able to protect athletes, “said Tygart, who has repeatedly criticized Wada.
Tygart also pointed out that no government had given the AMA more money since its foundation in 2000 than the United States, while explaining that non-payment would have “no impact” on the ability of American athletes to compete in international sports.
The $ 3.6 million due by the United States, when it is automatically equaled by the International Olympic Committee, represent around 14% of the AMA $ 52 million budget for 2024. The United States should pay $ 3.8 million for 2025.
Tygart had previously suggested that the United States could retain its annual AMA funding as a means of arouing reform following the scandal of Chinese swimmers, in which 23 athletes were tested positive for the same prohibited substance, trimetazidine, A few months before the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. The anti -doping authority of China did not publicly disclose the positive tests, at Need, and the AMA discreetly erased swimmers after agreeing with the affirmation of China according to which positive tests were the result of contamination in a hotel.
When the New York Times and the German diffuser Ard highlighted the last case, the leaders of the AMA quickly defended to defend themselves against the claims of criticism, in particular Tygart, which they had actually swept the case under the carpet. Wada then on several occasions Tygart and the United States as trying to politicize sports.
Asked about the American decision’s ramifications to retain funding, AMA spokesperson James Fitzgerald, wrote in an email on Wednesday that, as part of the organization’s statutes, any country that does not pay its Promised contributions is prohibited to have a representation on the board of directors or executive of the AMA foundation or at the Wada Committee, which helps to manage it. This means that Dr. Rahul Gupta, who oversees the National House Drug Control Office of the White House, will no longer sit on the executive committee.
The decision comes as the United States is preparing to host a series of prestigious international sporting events over the next decade, including the 2026 World Cup for male football, the 2028 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the 2034 winter games in Salt Lake City.
The New York Times reported that before retaining the funding of the AMA, the White House sought the possible ramifications of the decision and “concluded that this could mean losing to accommodate the 2034″ winter Olympic Games ” – Although this seems unlikely given the strength of Salt Lake from Salt Lake to Salt Lake “offers and the shortage of other interested and well-equipped hosts. Olympic and paralympic American did not immediately respond to a message asking for comments.
The IOC officially granted the 2034 winter games in the United States during a vote last summer after a controversial meeting during which CIO members torn, among other things, the Rodchenkov law, which allows the US authorities to pursue criminal charges in doping that affects American athletes. The leaders of the American auctions tried to appease these concerns and undertook to reiterate their support for the AMA as “the supreme authority” in the global fight against the doping of sports.
Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatuday.com or on social networks @ Tomschad.bsky.social.
This article originally appeared on USA Today: US Funding Wada returns in the midst of concerns concerning the Chinese doping scandal
