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07/19/11 International soccer's governing body has always been a punchline for corruption in sports. They make the NCAA look like UNICEF. Even the International Olympic Committee looks honest next to soccer. But in truth, the scale of FIFA's corruption defies any sports context. Sepp Blatter and co. are in a league of their own here. FIFA's the organization that yields a fortune thanks to massive tax ...
07/14/11 TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo shouldn't be discouraged from bidding for the 2020 Olympics just because South Korea recently secured the 2018 Winter Games, the head of the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
07/09/11 DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - Sweden's Gunilla Lindberg returned to the International Olympic Committee executive board Saturday, becoming the second woman on the ruling 15-member body.
07/05/11 On Wednesday the International Olympic Committee will select between Munich, Pyeongchang, and Annecy to determine the location of the 2018 Winter Olympics. 0 0 1 242 1138 Sustainable Development 27 7 1373 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style ...
07/04/11 Philip Hersh, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO While a U.S. bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics still seems very unlikely, USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun didn't completely rule it out last week. Blackmun's point was nothing had changed since the issue came up three weeks ago, when International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge seemed to be begging the U.S. to bid. That was in the immediate ...
07/02/11 LONDON (AP) - Send the Winter Olympics to a new frontier in Asia, or go back to the roots of winter sports in the heart of Europe? That sums up the choice facing the International Olympic Committee when it selects the host city for the 2018 Games.
07/01/11 CHICAGO -- While a U.S. bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics still seems very unlikely, USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun didn't completely rule it out this week. Blackmun's point was nothing had changed since the issue came up three weeks ago, when International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge seemed to be begging the U.S. to bid. That was in the immediate aftermath of Comcast / NBC ...
05/27/11 Agencies Berlin, May 27: Up to 10 cities are considering bidding for the 2020 summer Olympics even though only one has officially submitted its application three months before the deadline, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday.
04/28/11 Swimmer Jessica Hardy, who missed the Beijing Olympics because of a doping violation, has been cleared for the London Games after the International Olympic Committee informed her she would not be subject to a contentious rule that threatened her eligibility.
04/27/11 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sport's highest court has been asked to provide a definitive ruling on the International Olympic Committee's eligibility regulation for doping offenders, the IOC and U.S. Olympic committees said on Wednesday.
04/06/11 A look at the six new events the International Olympic Committee has approved for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
04/06/11 A look at the six new events the International Olympic Committee has approved for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Women's ski jumping: Will be held on the normal or 106-metre hill. Each athlete will have two jumps. Score will be based on both distance and style.
02/20/11 HALIFAX - Emily Fulton dreams of wearing a maple leaf-emblazoned hockey sweater some day and skating alongside other Canadian women on Olympic ice.And so it wasn't easy for the 18-year-old forward from Stratford, Ont., to hear the president of the International Olympic Committee cast doubt upon her sport during the Vancouver Games last year.Citing the competitive imbalance between countries ...
02/05/11 PARK CITY, Utah - Amid gusty winds and icy conditions, and under the watchful eyes of International Olympic Committee officials, the Canadian halfpipe team came up big at the freestyle world ski championships.
02/03/11 Pat McQuaid would welcome an investigation into alleged corruption at the UCI from any organisation including the IOC (International Olympic Committee). The comments comes after he told Cyclingnews' sister publication, Procycling, that corruption was impossible to facilitate at the UCI.
01/01/11 There are those who would throw in with the International Olympic Committee and end the hypocrisy some of it, anyway and acknowledge certain realities in the increasingly sordid realm of big-time college football.
12/27/10 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- It was hardly a marquee moment in the history of world sports. Curious crowds on a Middle Eastern beach watched events that included horse riders slicing a lemon with a sword and a cousin of croquet called woodball. Yet there was the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, looking on from the VIP seats and then coming down to present some ...
11/13/10 IOC chief Rogge has full confidence that the legacy of the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be carried forward in China. Edmond Tang Since being elected president of the International Olympic Committee in 2001, Belgian Jacques Rogge impressed people by his seriousness toward doping and the initiation of the Youth Olympic Games.
10/25/10 (AP:ACAPULCO, Mexico) It's hard to imagine an Olympic opening or closing ceremony without fireworks exploding in the night sky over a packed stadium. That tradition could be on the way out, though, under a proposal being considered by the International Olympic Committee.
10/19/10 Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee said the defending Olympic champion in the 400 meters would be ineligible for the London Games because of an IOC rule that automatically disqualifies any athlete banned for more than six months. But the arbitrators who banned him for 21 months refute that. In their ...
09/25/10 Global sports events like next month's Commonwealth Games will always face last-minute problems but it is the way organisers deal with them that will make or break them, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Saturday. | 
