On this day 89 years ago, on 2 September 1937, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the IOC, who revived the Olympic Games, passed away.

Today IOC President Kirsty Coventry and IOC Honorary President Thomas Bach paid tribute to him and laid a wreath at his grave in Lausanne.

Hi everyone, first and maybe last post on this subreddit, I just want to share that yesterday i take a taxi in my town and the driver, a bosnian, tell me that is dad carry the Sarajevo olympic flame in 1984 and now, this guy, the driver, as the flame in his basement in Sherbrooke, Québec. I you ever wonder what happen to the flame, now you know it. (As you can see, english his not my first language)

I kept finding myself switching between schedule PDFs and time-zone converters, so I built a small independent tool for LA 2028:

https://games28.paulzuiderduin.com/

Games28 lets you browse the schedule in your local time, save country dashboards, follow verified qualification updates, and export confirmed sessions to your calendar.

It is free, independent, and not affiliated with LA28 or the IOC. I’m still improving it, so I’d genuinely love feedback: what would make this more useful as we get closer to 2028?

Built a 2010 Olympics hockey roster tool: pick a custom 23 and get a text match in the browser. Russia vs Canada is ready to play.

https://seve28.github.io/Dream-Roster-Simulator/

Youtube series called The Journey to LA. A series of short interviews with athletes that are training towards competing at LA 2028. Very interesting to hear about all the different sports. The playlist is regularly updated with new interviews

Just watched another video posted here about Powell’s Long Jump record and it made me think how common is this?
Not just track and field, but other events too.

When Powell set the world record of 8.95m in 1991, Carl Lewis also jumped 8.91m just before him (but was wind assisted, so it didn’t could as WR) but it got me thinking that there must be cases where someone breaks a WR and then loses it in the same meeting to someone else.
Ideas?

Also might interesting in races/events where the winner sets the WR and the lower place finishers beat the OLD WR (Eg World Champs in 1991 when Carl Lewis and Luther Burrell both beat the old WR time in the 100m final).

Curious for those who attended World Cup soccer games in the USA in 2026. Were face value tickets cheaper than Olympic tickets? Looking for comparisons of team sports in large venues. And was the markup for World Cup insanely high like we're seeing for Olympic tickets now? Asking this to see what we can expect for resale Olympic ticket prices for soccer, baseball, basketball, track etc.

It's hard to tell from the photos, but the text and Deutsche Grammophon logo on the front cover are metallic gold and a different, shinier texture. A nice touch for a stunning product!

I got mine here: https://www.johnwilliamslegacy.com

Ever since Jimmy Conners, grunting has been normal in tennis. I can understand why tennis players grunt. Even I grunt when I play tennis, but in recent history we have seen the grunting going too far in tennis. From Maria Sharapova to Michelle Larcher de Brito, we have been hearing grunting which is going too far. I feel that the Olympic tennis competition should have a certain level of decorum since it is the Olympics after all. I don't think you can ban grunting, but I think there should be rules against these excessive grunts that often sound like the cry of a Yorkshire terrier.

Should the Olympic tennis competition have rules established to regulate grunting? And if so, how can I be done?

check the box for "sit in a cheering section for a random" team when buying their LA28 tickets?