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What Does the Sheikh Want?
Marius Vizer was recently elected president of SportAccord, the umbrella organization of international sports federations. Ordinarily, this development would be consigned to the sports section’s back...
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Don Porter Swinging for the Fences
Don Porter has served as president of the International Softball Federation (ISF) since 1987, and has been re-elected five times since then. Prior to that he served as the first Secretary-General of...
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Who Runs the IOC?
When, against expectation, Buenos Aires was elected host of the third Summer Youth Games for 2018. The crucial element was a gaffe by Juan Manuel Santos, state president of Columbia. It’s something...
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Paralympic Movement Had Best Year Yet in 2012, Says IPC President
Sir Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), said that 2012 was the “greatest year yet” for the Paralympic Movement following the launch of its annual report Wednesday....
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Olympic Boycotts Do Not Work
The Honorable Lindsey Graham, Republican, South Carolina, United States Senate 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510-4001 Dear Sen. Graham: Please allow me to start with a joke. I...
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Turkey Needs to “Clean Their House” if Istanbul 2020 is to Win Bid, IAAF...
Turkey’s government needs to do more to demonstrate that it is dealing with its country’s doping problem if Istanbul’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is to be successful, International...
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Why London 2012 Worked – the Critical Success Factors
The scale of success achieved at the London 2012 Games has become clearer and more vivid over the past year, providing a new blueprint for the planning and delivery of major events worldwide. There has...
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Jackie Chan Pitches Up in Support of Baseball-Softball Olympic Bid
Martial arts movie legend Jackie Chan has added his support to the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) campaign to get the sports back on the Olympic program for the 2020 Games. Jackie Chan...
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IOC Presidential Candidate Wu Offers to Help London Olympic Museum Project
C K Wu, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) President currently campaigning to take up the most powerful position in world sport as the leader of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has...
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Athletics World Champions are Getting Older
Track and field world champions are getting older again, after a near decade-long spell at the start of the millennium when their average age was getting progressively younger. Usain Bolt's three gold...
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The Case for Squash as the New Olympic Sport Over Baseball, Softball and...
The time is long gone since I was coached – though I was never better than merely energetic – by the inimitable Nasrullah Khan, member of Pakistan’s legendary squash family and resident professional at...
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A Green and Safe Tokyo Games Question Mark
As the IOC prepares to vote on the 2020 Olympic Games’ host city in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, experts are voicing increasing concern about the full extent of the environmental legacy of the 2011...
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IOC Reaching New Scale of Media Operation for 2020 Games Location Announcement
When some years ago the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a session to discuss the future of the Olympic movement, there was a group of a few journalists reporting from these discussions and...
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Wrestling Floors Opponents with First Round Victory
BUENOS AIRES, Brazil - Wrestling has retained its place on the Olympic sports program after winning a clear-cut victory over its two rivals today in the Argentinean capital. On a day described by Nenad...
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How Tokyo 2020 Won Its Olympics, Paralympics Bids Despite Fukushima
BUENOS AIRES, Brazil — Money, technical capacity, infrastructure and a sprinkling of striking signature developments, such as the $1.5 billion Zaha Hadid-designed Kasumigaoka Stadium and Tokyo Bay’s...
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Who Do You Love?
As circuses go, this one is most excellent. The question: who will be the next ringleader and where is the next tent to be pitched? Here Friday morning in the corner of the Hilton Hotel lobby one could...
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Bach Must Now Turn to Future After Being Winner ‘Majority of People’ Wanted
By David Owen on Sept. 10, 2013 in Buenos Aires - “Ouffff!” The first word uttered by Thomas Bach as International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, at around 12.42 p.m. today, may not have been very...
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Ben Johnson Documentary Raises Questions About the Integrity of Sports
To mark the impending 25th anniversary of the 1988 Seoul Olympic 100-meter final—where as you may recall the winner, Ben Johnson, ran into a spot of bother with the dope testers—a documentary about...
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Alan Hubbard: Sport Needs to Stop Blowing Hot and Cold Over Where It Holds...
Back in 1968, just before the start of the Olympic Games in searingly hot, uncomfortably high altitude Mexico City, the late Chris Brasher sounded an ominous warning. “There will be those who die,” he...
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‘Uniqueness Of Olympics Has To Be Respected’ Warns IOC As Bach Holds Summit...
A commission has been set-up by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to investigate the increasingly crowded sporting calendar but which has already decreed that the Olympics must remain the most...
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