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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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Armstrong: I Doped for All Seven Tour de France Victories
Lance Armstrong has finally admitted to using banned performance-enhancing drugs throughout most of his career and in all seven of his Tour de France victories during an interview with Oprah Winfrey....
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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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Japanese Women’s Coaches Suspended by International Judo Federation After...
All the coaches involved with the Japanese women’s judo team have been suspended following the revelations of ill-treatment by former head trainer Ryuji Sonoda, it has been announced. The...
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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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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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World of Sport Rocked by Pistorius Murder Charge
The world of sport has reacted with shock and disbelief after South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, the poster boy of the Paralympic Movement, was charged yesterday with the murder of his girlfriend....
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Claim Anabolic Steroids Found in Pistorius House Latest Twist in Murder Tale
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have no plans at the moment to take action following reports in the South African media that anabolic steroids have been found at the home of Oscar...
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Record Television Audience of 34 million in China Watched London 2012 Table...
Table tennis is now China’s most watched sport and is still on the rise, with the sport accumulating nearly one-billion viewers in the world’s most populous nation last year, including 34 million to...
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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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The alliance between sport and Christianity: An unnoticed victory for Pope...
The resignation of the Pope came suddenly and the press reacted immediately. The comments of the press were not so much about the achievements of the Pope but about the resignation itself, this...
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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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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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Tereshuk Takes World Cup Gold in Palm Springs But Newcomer Steals Show
Ukraine’s Victoria Tereshuk claimed victory in the women’s event at the Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Palm Springs, but is was China’s silver medalist Xiaonan Zhang who stole the show as she claimed a...
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U.S. Speed Skating Embroiled in Scandal
Editor’s Note: With the next Winter Olympics less than a year away, U.S. short-track speed skating is spinning into chaos, a Chicago Tribune examination has found. Philip Hersh has summarized below...
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When It Comes to Doping, ‘The Simpsons’ Has It Right
There has been much well-informed discussion at this week’s two-day “Tackling Doping in Sport” global summit, where the great and good of the world’s anti-doping community have gathered to exchange...
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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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Coe’s British Olympic Association Already Looks Very Different to How...
Having run the most successful Olympic and Paralympic Games ever, leading the British Olympic Association (BOA) through the next four-year Olympic cycle through to Rio 2016 is not an overly daunting...
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Vizer Elected New SportAccord President
Marius Vizer was today elected the new President of SportAccord, beating his only rival, Bernard Lapasset. Vizer, President of the International Judo Federation (IJF), polled 52 votes to his rival’s 37...
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