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Bach: PED Testing Not an Expense, But an Investment in Future Of Athletics
“The future of sport greatly depends on our success of manipulation and related corruption in the fight against doping, any kind.” -International Olympic Committee President Dr. Thomas Bach addressing...
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IOC Appoints Head Of Rugby World Cup As New Sports Director
Kit McConnell is joining the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as its new sports director, leaving his current role as head of the Rugby World Cup, it was announced this week. The 40-year-old New...
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Diack: Accusations Against World’s Dominant Sprinting Nation Becoming ‘Absurd’
Concern within the IOC and ASOIF about WADA’s idiosyncratic administrative behavior is further illustrated by the controversy involving Jamaica. This reached a climax last Saturday, during the IAAF’s...
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Asia, Africa Work To Break Down Gender-Equality Barriers At Women In Sport Forum
Asia and Africa have made a strong and active commitment to break down still further the gender equality barriers facing in women in sport as the first Afro-Asian Women and Sport Forum came to a close...
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IOC President honoured with Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been named among those honored at the fifth Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Awards today. The German 1976 Olympic fencing...
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Many Young People Don’t Know About Pierre de Coubertin, Warns Trinidad and...
The future of the Olympic Movement is under threat, warned President of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) Brian Lewis. Many young people do not know who Baron Pierre de Coubertin –...
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U.S. Receiving “Lot of Encouragement” From IOC Members For 2024 Olympic Bid,...
A potential bid from America for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics is receiving strong support already from International Olympic Committee (IOC) members it was claimed today by Larry Probst, President...
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IOC President: There Must Be Total Commitment For Rio 2016
Rio 2016 – “There must be total commitment” David Miller reports on IOC President Thomas Bach’s inaugural teleconference. IOC President Thomas Bach has introduced an innovative series of...
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Russia To Establish Protest Zones During Sochi 2014, Bach Reveals
Russia is to set-up public protest zones during Sochi 2014, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach revealed this week. Details of the decision, aimed at trying to defuse...
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Executive Board Discusses Olympic Agenda 2020
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board concluded a four-day brainstorming seminar today in Montreux, Switzerland, where discussions were led by IOC President Thomas Bach and centered...
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Thomas Bach Offers IOC Executive Board an IQ Test
The revolution begins tomorrow – or rather, as the new IOC President would prefer to term it – the evolution. Following a nominal recent Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, they all...
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Russian Doping Problems Continue as Weightlifters, Cyclists Banned for Failed...
A bad year for Russian sport has ended on a further sour note with the announcement that eight athletes, six from weightlifting and two from cycling, have been handed doping bans. In what, given the...
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Appointment of Putin ally to head IOC Evaluation Commission adds controversy...
Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, has been appointed chairman of the International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission that will analyse the bids...
View ArticleUSOC discuss possible cities to submit bids for 2024 Summer Games
Expressly encouraged by IOC President Thomas Bach to enter a bid for the Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee — although insisting it has not been decided whether or not to enter a candidate for the...
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Task forces and project manager introduced by IOC to combat Rio 2016 crisis
Task forces covering three different areas, the appointment of a project manager and greater collaboration with key stakeholders are among measures outlined by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
View ArticleNorway’s Youth Games set IOC and FIS an example
David Miller reports on protecting Freestylers from themselves. The Norwegian organising committee of the next Youth Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer is setting a premptive lead for the IOC and the...
View ArticleUN Secretary-General and IOC President Scheduled to Sign Memorandum of...
Work is still in progress on the final paper, but the Memorandum of Understanding, which is scheduled to be signed next Monday, April 28th, by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IOC President Thomas...
View ArticleThomas Bach’s Open-Door Olympic Laboratory
How to run the Olympic Games? The former Soviet Union once campaigned for the IOC to introduce UN-style one-country-one-vote membership. President Thomas Bach’s innovative ‘Agenda 2020’ scrutiny,...
View ArticleSpeech by IOC President on Sport for Development and Peace in New York
“In our ever more diverse and individualized societies sport is the best, in some cases, even the only, bond regardless of social, racial, political background” The International Olympic Committee is...
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Sports federations making unacceptable demands for the Rio 2016
Sports federations are making unacceptable demands about facilities for the Rio 2016 Games the city’s Mayor has said, in a strongly-worded rebut to ongoing criticism. Speaking to reporters, Eduardo...
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