Sports Business Journal has hired Rachel Axon to cover the Olympic beat and the 2024 Paris Games.
Previously, Axon was a sports investigative reporter at USA Today, where she investigated a variety of issues, focused on sports, institutional response to sexual abuse and Olympics. There, she also won a SABEW award for government writing (large division).
She was also a semifinalist for Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for series on COVID outbreaks in meatpacking plants.
She worked at USA Today Sports Media Group for six years, holding the posts of sports enterprise/investigative reporter and Olympics reporter. She contributed to NBC Sports and was a UF beat reporter at the Orlando Sentinel.
Axon has a B.A. in journalism from St. Bonaventure University in New York.
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