13 Jul, 2021

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(ATR) Baltimore, Maryland is the only one of the 17 U.S. cities bidding to host matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup that does not have a major professional soccer team.

But Terry Hasseltine, president of the Baltimore-Maryland 2026 bid, tells Around the Rings that not having a Major League Soccer franchise could help the city win hosting rights.

"One of the things I believe is beneficial to FIFA is the bigger footprint that they could potentially leave on our market," Hasseltine says.

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Cali 2021 Could Have Crowds

(ATR) The I Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, could be held in front of spectators.

During the most recent visit by representatives of Panam Sports to supervise their preparations, there was a request from the local authorities to the Colombia's Ministry of Health to allow up to 30 percent capacity at the sports venues.

But the President of the Organizing Committee, Baltazar Medina, clarified to Around the Rings that there are still more than five months to go until the event and the epidemiological situation will determine the conditions for holding the Games.

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ATRadio: A Global Conversation on Athletics

Through the end of April World Athletics is seeking direction from the public on the future of the sport. Olympian Willie Banks is heading the campaign to gather opinions with a survey known as Global Conversation. He joins ATR Editor Ed Hula to talk about the project.

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Bach inaugurated an Athletes Forum in Asia and shows himself side by side with athletes at the beginning of the year

The highest authority of the International Olympic Committee is opening up ways to deal directly with them outside the offices, an attitude that was revealed especially in its exhaustive tour of Central America. At the launch of the Forum, he made no references on the possible boycott of Paris 2024.

Michael Phelps elected for the International Swimming Hall of Fame

The Baltimore Shark, winner of 23 gold medals at the Olympic Games, is one of those chosen from a 2023 class that will have a historic event: Trischa Zorn-Hudson will be the first Paralympic swimmer to be part of this recognition.

The TAS reduced the doping sanction to a famous Ukrainian gymnast and he can now compete again

Oleg Verniaiev, Olympic parallel champion in Rio 2016, had been suspended for four years. The Arbitration Court for Sport (TAS) gave rise to his appeal and the sentence was reduced to two years, so it was automatically enabled: “To all those who didn't want me to come back, see you soon,” he wrote on his social networks.

Athletics goodbye to Dick Fosbury, the “nut job” who couldn’t play sports and revolutionized high jumping

The American died at the age of 76 and marked an era in athletics with the “Fosbury flop”, the innovative style that led him to be Olympic champion in Mexico 1968 and that the world uses today. “I was already practicing backjumping in high school and everyone was laughing at me,” he said in an interview.

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