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Rio 2016 Olympic Stadium ‘Closed Indefinitely’ Amid Safety Fears
Engineers in Rio de Janeiro examining the structural damage to Estádio Olímpico João Havelange have warned that it could take them up to two months to find a solution. The stadium, which is due to host...
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Instanbul 2020: Fast Times for Istanbul’s Olympic Bid
No one ever said they weren’t anything but smart and clever here. They knew coming in, because the working group report last spring from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said so, that...
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Gender Equality Key in Baseball-Softball Regaining Olympic Status
Gender equality, with concurrent men’s and women’s tournaments staged in the same arena, as in tennis, could be a key element in the campaign by Baseball and Softball to return to the Olympic Games in...
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Mike Miller Appointed as World Olympians Association’s First Chief Executive
Mike Miller, former head of the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been appointed by the World Olympians Association (WOA) as its first chief executive. The Briton, whose appointment has been...
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Wrestling Hires Consulting Firm to Restore Olympic Status
International management firm TSE Consulting have been appointed by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) to develop a strategic plan, which it hopes will help retain its...
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IOC Presidential Candidates Should Share Vision
Here’s a revolutionary idea — revolutionary, that is, only if this were 1750, not 2013. What about having each of the candidates for the International Olympic Committee presidency actually present his...
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Small Town Tulsa and Joint Bid from San Diego and Tijuana Among Proposals...
U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun revealed that 10 American cities have expressed interest in bidding for the 2024 Olympicsand Paralympic Games, including Tulsa, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and a...
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British Horse Racing Takes Hit
With11 of his best horses recently tested positive for prohibited substances, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai,...
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AIBA President Reassures Olympic Boxing Community Following WBC Complaint
International Boxing Association (AIBA) President C K Wu has sent a letter reassuring the Olympic boxing community that there are no problems following a public attack from the World Boxing Council...
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USA and Iran Wrestling Teams to Meet Each Other as Part of Campaign to Save...
An international match between the United States and Iran is due to take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena this month as part of the campaign to keep the sport in the Olympic Games. The...
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Bach Officially Confirms He Will Run for IOC President
Germany’s Thomas Bach today officially announced that he will be a candidate to replace Jacques Rogge as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The announcement was made at a press...
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McQuaid Struggling to Win Nomination for UCI President Re-election as...
A campaign to prevent Pat McQuaid from standing for re-election as President of the International Cycling Union (UCI) is gathering momentum in both Ireland and Switzerland, the only two countries who...
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Ng Ser Miang to Confirm He Will Run for IOC President
Singapore’s Ng Ser Miang will officially announce on Thursday (May 16) that he is to put himself forward as a candidate to replace Jacques Rogge as President of the International Olympic Committee...
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U.S., Iran and Russia Join Forces to Save Olympic Wrestling
The United States, Russia and Iran wrestling teams are preparing to meet Wednesday, May 15, 2013, for an historic exhibition in New York that will be televised live by the NBC Sports Network and...
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Founding Working Group Calls for Universal Monitoring System to Fight Illegal...
A group set-up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge to fight irregular and illegal betting in sport has called for a universal monitoring system to help stop the...
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Chairman of IOC Marketing Commission Says “We Need an Iron Fist in a Velvet...
The election of a successor to President Jacques Rogge in September is, in the opinion of Norwegian International Olympic Committee member and Chairman of the IOC Marketing Commission Gerhard Heiberg,...
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Puerto Rican Richard Carrión Enters Race for IOC President
Richard Carrión today gave official confirmation he is entering the race to succeed Jacques Rogge as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, bringing to three the number of declared...
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Nuzman Denies Backing Baseball-Softball for 2020 and Reiterates Support for...
Honorary International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Carlos Nuzman has insisted he has not backed the joint baseball-softball bid for inclusion at the 2020 Olympics, despite the World Baseball...
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IOC Presidential Candidate C.K. Wu’s Vision is Education
C.K. Wu of Chinese Taipei, the president of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and a member of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) policy-making executive board, on Thursday...
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Sports Bidding for 2020 Olympic Games Prepare to Learn Fate in St Petersburg
In a brief media release last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) shed a little more light on the announcement in St Petersburg this week of the final shortlist of sports bidding to make...
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