Philip Hersh

LONDON – It seems the 2012 Olympic organizers want to punish those ticket-holders actually showing up to watch sports.  The background rock music at most venues is so loud it could make anyone stone deaf in minutes. There was no such noise at the...

On the surface, it looks as if the past 48 hours has brought nothing but good news for women athletes. *Qatar, which never has had a female Olympian, announced its London Summer Games flag bearer will be a woman athlete, shooter Bahiya al-Ahmad.  She...

The international court decision allowing past British dopers to compete in the Olympic Games was an issue of law, not morality, no matter how much the holier-than-thou wailers from across the pond wanted to couch it as possibly leading to the end of...

Ed Korfanty  is a member of the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame,  a three-time world champion in the veterans’ saber division  and coach of the most decorated fencer in U.S. history. And now he is an event. This week’s saber World Cup meet in...

On the final day of the figure skating season, the grind apparently caught up with everyone as the women finished the World Team Trophy in Tokyo. U.S. champion Ashley Wagner won the free skate and moved from fifth to third overall despite negative grades...

To paraphrase a famous utterance, the financial agreement announced Thursday between the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International is a small step in settling account ledgers and a giant leap in getting past the idea that this was more about......

Ten things I know, and you should: 1. I hope I'm wrong, but my gut feeling is 2010 Olympic figure skating singles champions Kim Yuna of South Korea and Evan Lysacek of the United States are done with competitive skating.......

The sport of track and field -- and the sports world in general -- is far poorer today. Two track-and-field legends, Harold Connolly and Scott Davis, died Wednesday. Connolly was an Olympic champion whose Cold War love story captivated the......

The future of one pro beach volleyball tour apparently is imperiled by financial trouble. Another with a back-to-the-future set of rules hits its beachhead in Chicago this weekend. As my boss pointed out when I mentioned the confluence of these......

Wednesday, I posted an essay from 1980 U.S. Olympian Anita DeFrantz on the pain she still feels over the 1980 Olympic boycott. (To read it, click here). Here is a more anecdotal voice on the 1980 boycott, that of longtime......

By Philip Hersh News and comment: News: U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor Proctor & Gamble will announce Wednesday it has become an International Olympic Committee global sponsor as well. Comment: Another plus for the USOC in its efforts to regain...

The London 2012 Olympic Stadium as it looked earlier this month. (Associated Press / Kirsty Wigglesworth) By Philip Hersh Tuesday marks two years to go to the July 27, 2012 opening of the London Summer Olympics. To the man running......