With such global brands as Visa, Volkswagen, General Electric and Samsung aiming at profits from sponsoring the Beijing Olympics in August, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee has firmly instructed visitors to the games on what they are not allowed to bring with them to the People's Republic of China. Forbidden is "anything detrimental to China's politics, economy, culture or moral standards - including printed material [like this column] film negatives, photos, records, movies, tape recordings, videotapes, optical discs and other items." A June 11 editorial in The Washington Times adds that "visitors with mental illnesses and sexually transmitted diseases will be barred from the country. Such mental illness presumably will include being a nut about freedom. Also banned are politic...
Hello my name is [Michael Jordan] and welcome to one of my favorite places in the world, the United Center. I am sorry I could not be here today," Jordan said during the video presentation. "I was looking forward to telling you how excited Chicago is about hosting the 20 1 6 Olympic Games. I thank you for your consideration of our wonderful city. "Chicago is an Olympic town and the International Olympics Committee will know this before they leave," [Bob Pickens] told the Defender. "I am proud to have represented the U.S. during the 1964 Games and Chicago is a proud city that will serve the Games with honors." 'This is my second Olympics coverage but my first to America," said Peter Chevosky, a newspaper reporter from Germany. "Chicago is a good place. It has a lot of different things ...
If the U.S. Olympic Committee submits a bid for the 2022 Winter Games with Denver as a candidate, the black eye of the Mile High City once returning the Olympics won't play a factor with International Olympic Committee voters, according to the leader of the IOC. There would definitely be no grudge for the fact that Denver abandoned the race," IOC president Jacques Rogge said Tuesday at The Broadmoor hotel before the end of the IOC international athletes' forum, a biennial gathering staged in the U.S. for the first time.
TAMPA, Fla. -- That supposed bastion of amateur athletic purity, the Olympics, finally stopped swimming against the tide and consented to the use of professional athletes following the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. That decision opened the door for the greatest assemblage of hoops talent ever, the United States' "Dream Team," to run roughshod over the competition in men's basketball at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. 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.
If the U.S. Olympic Committee submits a bid for the 2022 Winter Games with Denver as a candidate, the black eye of the Mile High City once returning the Olympics won't play a factor with International Olympic Committee voters, according to the leader of the IOC. There would definitely be no grudge for the fact that Denver abandoned the race," IOC president Jacques Rogge said Tuesday at The Broadmoor hotel before the end of the IOC international athletes' forum, a biennial gathering staged in the U.S. for the first time.
Say it ain't so ... somebody! Baseball and softball will go on a four-year disabled list and may face career-ending injuries as part of the Olympic Games. Both sports are out of the Olympics as of the 2012 London Games. That decision was made by the International Olympics Committee in 2005, an organization dominated by Europeans. They'll be the first sports dropped since polo was axed in 1936 and the flimsy excuse offered is that they don't have enough world appeal.
The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation says he's "sure" an agreement will be reached with the NHL to keep the world's best players in the Olympics. International Olympic Committee executive board member Rene Fasel, who concluded a trip Wednesday to Colorado Springs with IIHF general secretary Horst Lichtner, reported progress from meetings with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman last week in New York.
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The South Korean city of Pyeongchang won the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, beating out Munich and Annecy, France. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge announced the body's decision in Durban, South Africa, to an audience that included South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, German President Christian Wulff and French Prime Minister Francois Fillion - all there to do last-minute lobbying on their countries' behalf.
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