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10 Oct 3:44 pm
... : More: "If the B.C. Court of Appeal orders the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee to put on
an event for female ski jumpers, the International Olympic Committee won't recognize the results or hand out medals, Dick Pound, Canada's IOC member said Thursday. Even worse, he said, it would likely wreck any future
chances of Canada hosting another Olympics." Why not just abolish the Olympics? The whole enterprise is increasingly corrupt and lame anyway.
21 Aug, 2008 8:54 pm
International Olympic Committee to investigate Chinese
gymnasts age. Gee, wonder what took them so long.
27 Jan, 2004 11:36 am
BBC News: "A vice-president of the International Olympic Committee has been arrested on corruption charges in South Korea. " Kim Un-Yong, a former South Korean politician and diplomat, was one of the leading
contenders for the IOC Presidency in 2001. BBC News offers a brief biographic backgrounder here. The IOC had previously suspended Kim from his IOC position pending the outcome of
20 Oct 2:38 pm
The International Olympic Committee is expected to be
granted observer status at the U.N. General Assembly today. Twenty-five nations (including the United States and the United Kingdom) are supporting a draft resolution to give observer
status to the IOC, which...
26 Aug, 2004 11:43 am
The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that
the US Olympic Committee has asked the Bush re-election campaign to pull an ad that refers to the
Olympics, on the grounds that it hijacks the name of games, the symbols of which are protected under trademark law. The ad notes that at "this Olympics there will be two
more free nations" (refering to Afghanistan and Iraq) but does not show
13 Aug, 2008 9:53 pm
... have been marked by controversy relating to the human rights record of its host, China. Two days ago, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added to the debate by demanding that YouTube block a video of a protest by Students For A
Free Tibet. The ... projected various images on the wall of the Chinese consulate in New York, and the video of the protest was titled "Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony." This
is not the first time the IOC has used an intellectual property claim to stomp on speech. ...
2 Oct 9:22 am
The New York Times reports that the International Olympic Committee has denied the United States bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Madrid and Rio de Janeiro await the final decision. See full coverage
here: Chicago Loses Bid for 2016 Olympic Games. The United States bid has received a lot of attention -- mainly because President Obama has put
his weight behind his country and his hometown and because conservatives -- contradicting their usual ...
26 Jan, 2004 8:35 am
AP: "Prosecutors [in Seoul] plan to question IOC vice president Kim Un-yong on Monday for a second time over corruption allegations, a news agency reported Sunday. Kim faces allegations
that he collected illicit money from former South Korean Olympic officials and embezzled funds from taekwondo organizations." On January 23 the
International Olympic Committee executive board announced
that
14 Aug, 2008 11:26 am
... not considered Games-related. This would include Chinese language versions of the BBC, Voice of America and Amnesty International. Chinese
officials noted that this practice would protect their young people. Though Chinese officials promised openness, they ... even pretend to have open access to the Web's information, not
even in a relatively well-defined set of Olympic sites dominated by foreigners who are, for the most ,fixated on sport, not dissention. The
damage this causes is two-fold: Chinese ...
10 Jan, 2008 12:22 pm
... East Asian Legal Studies program, Professor Guttman described the continuing development of the modern Olympic Games as the International Olympic Committee prepares to pass the torch to China for
the games of 2008. "I begin by saying emphatically that the ... Games and politics should be kept separate… it was the Marxist view that interpreted sports as a form of politics." The
modern Olympic games were the brainchild of Pierre de Coubertin, a French historian and patriot committed to restoring his ...
10 Jun, 2007 7:56 pm
... these forms of private rule making have focused on corporations, consumers and investors in the West, the confluence of the upcoming Olympic Games to be held in Beijing, combined with China's increasingly powerful position as a developing state willing to project ... , bags and stationery."
Olympic Firms Abusing Workers, BBC News, June 10, 2007. As a consequence, the International
Olympic Committee has been forced to respond--carefully noting that it would not merchandise the
Olympics using goods ...
16 Mar, 2008 9:00 pm
... to an Olympics-governed parcel of land set aside exclusively for all Olympics games. When the International Olympics
Committee chose China for the 2008 summer Olympics, the handwriting clearly was on the wall that plenty of worldwide dissent would arise
... the expectedly harsh response from the Chinese government -- are just one of the reasons to consider not watching the Chinese Olympics live or on television. To do otherwise
will be to give up the opportunity to take a clear stand against human- ...
23 Mar, 2008 10:38 am
... 13- 15. The Toronto Star reports that the mayor has confirmed that the mission will proceed in spite of the ongoing controversy. During the International Olympic Committee's vote to determine the host of the 2008
summer Olympic games, Toronto came in ... online. Human Rights: Among the many ongoing human rights abuses in China, in an effort to clean its
streets for the Olympics, China is implementing strict policies with reference to the mentally ill and homeless. It was reported that last month a ...
24 Jul, 2008 4:42 pm
... SPORT reports: Athletes from Iraq have been banned from taking part at this summer's Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee has announced. The team was already the subject of an interim ban after the Iraqi government
replaced the country's ... Live sports news correspondent Gordon Farquhar added: "The four Iraqi athletes that qualified could have competed under the Olympic flag but the deadline for confirmation of places has passed." I would hope that the IOC would make an exception to ...
30 May, 2007 1:10 am
... place.'"China's new Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, lashed back: "'There is a handful of people who are trying to politicize the Olympic
Games. This is against the spirit of the Games. It also runs counter to the aspirations of all the people in the world, and ... reason to play the card? Surely it is not the only one.
Last month Amnesty International asked the International Olympic Committee to pressure China on account of repression within China itself -- a concern that's particularly
noteworthy ...
8 Aug, 2008 10:16 pm
... the Olympics, athletes have been encouraged to wear facemasks and stay inside to be ready to perform in their event. In March, the International Olympic Committee issued a report saying "some events will
not be conducted under optimal conditions" and "the Games are more about competing in the Olympic spirit, than about breaking records." It's
doubtful that many athletes will agree that they are headed to the world's biggest athletic ...
10 Oct 7:02 pm
... Golf and Rugby and the coming Olympic agenda. As reported by UPI (United Press International),
the IOC (International Olympic Committee) on Friday,
October 9, 2009, added ... 's and women's golf as well as rugby to the lineup of Olympic sports for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic games. The men's and women's golfers ... have played a round of golf or visited a golf practice facility. How many other Olympic sports have anything near to that kind of inclusivity??? What is the TOTAL of regular sports activists ...
29 Jun, 2008 1:57 pm
... , one declaration, and one condition. The SFRC's report notes that "U.S. ratification is . . . important for a practical reason: The International Olympic Committee has stated that it will only award the
Olympic Games to countries that are party to the Convention. The city of Chicago is among the finalists to host the 2016 Summer
Olympics, but it would likely not be awarded the Games if the Convention is not ratified by the United States."
28 Jul, 2008 5:11 pm
Last week, the International Olympic Committee announced
that it will bar Iraqi athletes from competing in this summer's Olympic games in Beijing. In June, the Iraqi government chose to disband its
National Olympic Committee (NOC) in violation of ... , which may have led to sectarian tensions
between the two groups. The Iraqi government dissolved the NOC in May on the grounds that the committee did not have enough members to form a
legal quorum. However, the NOC is missing four of its members due to ...
24 Jul, 2008 1:47 pm
A decision today by the the International Olympic Committee
to uphold a ban on Iraqi teams at the 2008 Beijing Games exposes a rift in Iraq's government, and may lead to a lawsuit. The IOC said the Iraqi government missed ... s National
Olympic Committee, claiming, among other reasons, that it was illegitimate because it lacked a legal
quorum. (The AP reports that four members of the committee, including its chief, were kidnapped two years ago and their fates are unknown.)
Moreover, a rift may exist ...
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