News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| 2 days ago
The guidelines provide advice to anti-doping agencies on how to implement programs to collect and store athletes' blood samples and monitor them for any variations that could indicate doping — without an actual positive test. "This is a long time
News Source: Merced Sun-Star
| 3 days ago
Russia unveiled the new logo for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, a design based on the organizing committee's Internet domain name. The lower-case logo is set in a rounded blue typeface and contains no images other than the five Olympic rings, and
News Source: Reuters
| 3 days ago
IOC president Jacques Rogge said on Tuesday he trusted Russia to provide all the necessary security arrangements for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi following a deadly train bombing at the weekend. "The Russian authorities are aware of the need to
News Source: The Star
| 6 days ago
International Olympic Committee (IOC) head Jacques Rogge said on Thursday that France striker Thierry Henry had done what could be expected of him in admitting to his handball in the World Cup playoff against the Republic of Ireland. �I�m
News Source: The Irish Times
| 6 days ago
In that time he will oversee the continent's challenge for Olympic success at the London Olympics 2012 plus the finalisation of the arrangements to acknowledge the role of sport in the new European Union constitution. Hickey, President of the Olympic
News Source: Times Online
| 15 days ago
BMW saloons will also be used for VIPs, sports chiefs and corporate guests after the German carmaker was chosen over Ford and Nissan as the official car sponsor of the London Games. While the elite will be driven between venues along specially
News Source: Star Phoenix
| 21 days ago
Doping was firmly entrenched in the sporting culture, largely tolerated, if not tacitly accepted, by those who competed in everything from cycling's Tour de France to baseball's World Series. Victor Conte operated in near impunity, pushing out
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 22 days ago
Time Warner when the IOC opens negotiations for the lucrative U.S. broadcast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics . Argentina ; all pay-TV rights in Bolivia , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Paraguay , Peru , and Uruguay ; and satellite-only rights in