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Irish Golfer Harrington Calls for IOC to Intervene in McIlroy Olympic Dilemma
Padraig Harrington has called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help world number one golfer Rory McIlroy decide which nation to represent at Rio 2016. Two-time Open champion Harrington...
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Possible Allround Speedskating Event Included in Olympic Winter Games
Support from International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has been received by the Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst, after International Skating Union (ISU) President Ottavio Cinquanta...
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2020 Olympic Games – Instanbul Ranked as One of the World’s Top Ten Tourist...
With Istanbul being ranked as one of the world’s Top Ten tourist destinations by the New York Times, campaigners for the city’s 2020 Olympic bid see their pledge underlined for Istanbul to provide an...
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Kalmadi Chairs Asian Athletics Association Meeting Despite Corruption Charges
Suresh Kalmadi is at the center of a new controversy after he chaired a meeting of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) Executive Council in New Delhi, which was attended by International Association...
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UCI Under Intense Criticism, and Not Just by Lance Armstrong
Deflecting an inevitable question about the crisis within the International Cycling Union (UCI), International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, having just made his first visit to the...
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Korean Olympic Committee President to Step Down
Park Yong-sung has surprisingly decided not to seek a second term as President of the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), claiming that he had managed everything he had set out to achieve. The announcement...
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The Omens Are Unpromising for Coubertin’s Idealistic Test of Character,...
When you reach the age of 20, bursting with innovative ideas and ambitions, you do not decide it might be a good idea to deport your grandfather for being out of date. Yet modern pentathlon, doyen...
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The Embarrassment for the IOC is that They Have Been Skewered by Their Own...
Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive board removed a sport from the Olympic program and woke up to discover they had lit a bonfire. Tens of thousands worldwide leaped to the...
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Africa Could Host Olympics but Suffers from “Prejudice” Claims Hayatou
Africa has several countries capable already of hosting the Olympics and Paralympics but is being denied the opportunity because of “prejudice,” it has been claimed by Issa Hayatou, President of the...
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Wrestling’s Olympic Future: Now What?
So interesting, indeed, to bear witness to the emotional recoil to the move by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) policy-making executive board to cut wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games....
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USOC’s 2024 Triple-Play Bid-City Letter
Finally, a U.S. Olympic bid process that, from the outset, takes the long, strong view. It only makes sense. The two people in charge of the U.S. Olympic Committee — chairman Larry Probst and chief...
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Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Organizing Committee Confirmed
Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Organizing Committee has been confirmed having achieved “solid progress on the media villages, the venue masterplan and the recruitment of staff” by the International...
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Rogge to Meet New International Wrestling President Next Week
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge will hold a meeting with the new head of wrestling next week to discuss the sport’s controversial from the list of core Olympic sports...
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Don’t Return Medals to IOC in Protest, Russian Olympic President Tells Wrestlers
Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Alexander Zhukov has urged the country’s Olympic wrestling medalists not to return their medals to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in protest against...
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No Safety Fears Over Tokyo 2020, IOC Evaluation Commission Assured
There should be no safety concerns about holding the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo the team of inspectors, headed by Britain’s Sir Craig Reedie, were assured today as they started assessing...
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Swiss Voters Reject Bid for 2022 Winter Olympics
It would seem that not every country’s residents believe that hosting an Olympic Games justifies the enormous public cost in time and money. Swizz voters on March 3 rejected a proposal to bid on...
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Swiss Exit Opens Door for German Bid for 2022 Winter Olympics
The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) has admitted there is now a strong possibility that Munich could bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after Switzerland voters rejected the...
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Samaranch: Madrid’s 2020 Summer Olympics Bid Must Go On
Madrid’s decision to continue campaigning for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, despite Spain’s economic crisis, has been strongly defended by the country’s most senior International Olympic Committee...
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Building of Rio de Janeiro’s First Anti-Doping Laboratory Starts
Brazil is getting its first World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory in preparation for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Design of Brazil's first WADA-accredited doping control lab....
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Turkish President: Choosing Istanbul 2020 Would Show ‘Olympics is Truly...
Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül today told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission that choosing Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics would send a historic message...
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