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The ANOC Podcast: Ireland NOC President Champions Gender Equality Progress. Sarah Keane discusses her efforts to get more women on board.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia nears the finish line in its bid to bring the Asian Games to the kingdom for the first time. Riyadh and Doha, Qatar were the only cities to submit a bid by the April 22 deadline set by the Olympic Council of Asia. The OCA’s evaluation committee visited both cities in November. The decision on a host for 2030 will be made December 16 at the Olympic Council of Asia’s General Assembly in Muscat, Oman.Around the Rings spoke with HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Alfaisal, the Riyadh 2030 bid committee president, just a few days before the decisive vote.

In this 1995 interview, Rafer Johnson talks about changes for the Olympics and carrying the Olympic flame.

The ANOC Podcast: NOCs Navigate the Pandemic.

Robin Mitchell discusses challenges and hardships facing the world's 206 national Olympic committees

The pandemic has hit elite athletes particularly hard - cancelled sponsorships, job losses, and the postponed Tokyo Games have combined to make it a miserable year.

The Foundation for Global Sports Development earlier this year launched BOOST2020 grant in an effort to offset some of the hardship. GSD culled some 100 applications before settling on ten recipients of $10,000 grants each.

ATR Editor in Chief Ed Hula recently spoke with three people closely involved with the program -- Megan Halicek, a former competitive gymnast and now the program director for GSD; John Moffet, retired Olympian swimmer who helped select the 10 winners, and J. Dee Marinko, a sitting volleyball athlete, one of the award recipients who discusses the peace of mind the grant has given him.

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Some advice on governance for the international boxing federation from Richard Caborn.

Marking the one year anniversary of the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, ATR presents the debut of the ANOC Podcast. ANOC secretary general Gunilla Lindberg talks with Around the Rings Editor Ed Hula about Doha 2019, what's ahead and the help NOCs are receiving to counter the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australian Olympic Committee President and IOC member John Coates was closely involved in the preparation and staging of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In this edition of Around the Rings Radio, he talks to ATR Editor Ed Hula about those Games as well as preparations he is supervising in Tokyo as chair of the IOC Coordination Commission.

The final press conference of Sydney 2000 President and Olympics Minister Michael Knight on the final day of the Games, Oct. 1, 2000.

Australia's Cathy Freeman woke up Sept, 26, 2000 a national hero, an international celebrity. The night before she won gold in the 400m, her specialty. She talks about the Olympic experience at a press conference in Sydney Sept. 26, 2000.