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Phelps’s broadside against USA Swimming highlights a leadership void, falling medal share and unresolved safeguarding scandals as LA 2028 looms

Asked about his move this week to federalize policing in Washington, he brought up concerns over security around the 2028 Olympics in LA and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, whose final is in NYC area

The Olympics’ newest rowing competition is a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one

Exclusive interview: Pierre Ducrey has outlined how swimming, and a huge audience inside the stadium, has afforded an ‘opportunity’ to provide a thrilling finale to the Games, a role usually handed to track and field

Plus: Congress might blow up the pro sports business model, and Las Vegas is struggling

One year on from the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, French politicians and sports organisations are hitting out at the government's proposed cuts to the budget for sport – after pledges to improve access to grassroots sport were made following the country's record medal haul last summer.

The American is entering a new field.

The US president, Donald Trump, signed an executive order on August 5 to set up a government taskforce to manage the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. During the White House announcement, Trump said: “We’ll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military.”

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry is in the spotlight on how she handles her "baptism of fire" over Russia, former IOC executives have told AFP. With just six months to go to the opening ceremony for the Milan-Cortina Winter Games the odds are that Russian athletes -- normally a…