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... : 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.

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

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

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 ...

... 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 ...

... movement. Not the host governments of Canada, B.C. and Vancouver. Not the Vancouver Organizing Committee or Vanoc. Not the taxpayers who are helping to underwrite the Games to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. "The ultimate governing authority of the Olympic movement," wrote the trio of appeal court judges, "is the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a non-governmental not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Switzerland." [...] But no one should have any illusions about ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...