THE HULA REPORT: Question Time for Mr. Putin
The questions that Ed Hula, Around the Rings founder, would like to ask the Russian leader.
BEHIND THE SCENES: Russia reveals the impossibility of sport being apolitical
Thomas Bach himself is convinced that sport and politics are inseparable. He explained this in 2014, a year after becoming president, in a speech at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
HULA REPORT: Russian attack dooms prospects for SportAccord
The IOC barely survives the war against the pandemic and seems ready to turn the corner towards Paris 2024. Now a new war over old grievances is looming as the next existential threat to the Olympic and world sport
BEHIND THE SCENES: From “plastic” snow to the future of “Big Air” and the impossibility of a Winter Games in the Southern Hemisphere
With long experience in evaluation and coordination commissions of the Olympic Games, José Luis Marcó analyzed in an interview with Around the Rings the changes of the last decades and the challenges for the future.
Gianni Infantino: Ridiculous remarks, a criminal probe, and a billionaire’s life paid by FIFA
The FIFA president said his plan, which UEFA, CONMEBOL and the IOC oppose, would give “hope to Africans so that they don’t need to cross” the sea and risk their lives. He was criticized for his lack of sensitivity and tried to backtrack
THE HULA REPORT: The Bubble Games
Are these Games simply too big to cancel?
BEHIND THE SCENES: Beijing 2022 opted for discretion, even sending a message to the world about the Uyghur conflict
China understood that the world was waiting for the Games, but that the world is not for games.