The Broken Pipeline: How The Collapse of College Sports Threatens U.S. Olympic Dominance

The NCAA settlement may have dismantled America’s Olympic talent infrastructure

The end of a dynasty didn’t start with a loss on the podium. It started with a 10-minute Zoom call.

In June 2025, the Track & Field athletes at Washington State University, a program that had produced four Olympians for the Paris Games just a year prior, were summoned to a vir…