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I will go to the Olympics: Bush
Beijing :: China | 3 days ago
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Bush has said he will not use the Olympics as an opportunity to criticize China, nor will he change his plan to attend the Games in Beijing this summer. In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, Bush said: "I'm going to the Olympics...On Wednesday, movie...
Tags: George W. Bush, Renmin University of China, Darfur, Beijing, IOC, Steven Spielberg, Chinese Foreign Ministry, China, Summer Olympics, Boycott, allnews, Olympic Games, Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee, Politics
S. Africa says Semenya can keep gold medal
Eldoret :: Kenya | 3 days ago
Credibility South Africa's Ministry of Sport says 800-metre world champion runner Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal, and that the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Halifax on Wednesday...
Tags: Caster Semenya, gold medal, Kenya, Eldoret, International Olympic Committee, Brimin Kipruto, Asbel Kiprop, Rashid Ramzi, Kiprop, allnews, Gender verification in sports, Gender role, Gender identity, Gender, Intersexuality, Olympic Flame, Sidney Crosby
IOC Strips Men's 1500m Winner of Gold, 4 Others Disqualified
The International Olympic Committee stripped a gold medal from a Bahraini middle-distance runner Wednesday along with disqualifying four other Olympic athletes because of confirmed doping results at the 2008 Beijing Games. The Moroccan-born Ramzi was...
Tags: IOC, Olympic Games, Beijing, Rachid Ramzi, Nicolas Willis, Ramzi, Samuel Sanchez, International Olympic Committee, olympic committee, Alexander Kolobnev, Summer Olympics, Italian, Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Bahraini, Davide Rebellin, Olympics, gold medals, allnews, Stefan Schumacher, United Kingdom, Vanja Perisic, Sport, London, Ljungqvist, IOC Strips Men, Mehdi Baala, Fabian Cancellara
Former IOC executive criticises Chicago 2016 bid effort
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 4 days ago
Credibility Chicago's bid leaders "totally missed the plot" ahead of the city's shock first-round elimination in voting to pick the 2016 Summer Games host, said a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive. Chicago's early exit showed it never connected...
Tags: Chicago, IOC, Michael Payne, U.S, Denmark, Copenhagen, United States Olympic Committee, Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Winter Olympic bid scandal, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Olympics, allnews
Athletics: Ramzi stripped of Olympic title
Manama :: Bahrain | 5 days ago
Credibility Ramzi, who was his country's first Olympic champion, was one of five athletes who tested positive in April for new blood-booster Cera. The 29-year-old faces a two-year ban but is expected to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Kenya's Asbel...
Tags: Rashid Ramzi, gold medal, ramzi stripped, Beijing, Asbel Kipruto Kiprop, Bahraini Olympic Committee, beijing olympic, olympic gold, silver medal, olympic champion, Bahrain, Manama, Cheating, Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, Asbel Kiprop, Wada, Drugs in sport, Doping, Bioethics, allnews, Mehdi Baala, Olympic Games, Willis, Kiprop, International Olympic Committee, Nick Willis, Bahrain at the Olympics, Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Davide Rebellin, Lyudmyla Blonska, Summer Olympics
Olympic ski jumping remains men-only zone
Vancouver :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility Only one American ski jumper has ever won a gold medal in international competition. That was achieved earlier this year, at the world championships, by the athlete who holds the record for the longest jump on the hill that will hold the 2010 Olympics.
Tags: IOC, skiing jumping, Vancouver Organizing Committee, world championship, American, Canada, Vancouver, Sports rules and regulations, Ski jumping, Winter Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Olympic sports, Olympics, allnews
Ticket monopoly brings one man big profit
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility It's a safe bet that few Americans headed north for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics have ever heard of a secretive New Jersey multimillionaire named Sead Dizdarevic...You can't buy an official ticket to the Games without ringing the cash register for...
Tags: Sead Dizdarevic, Jet Set Dizdarevic, Sarajevo Dizdarevic, USOC, Atlanta Organizing Committee, IOC, Billy Payne, Salt Lake City, John Krimsky, travel packager, Olympics, Olympic Games, United States Olympic Committee, Winter Olympics, William Porter Payne, Sport in London, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne
Olympic tickets go quickly as computer system back up
Vancouver :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Nov. 7 ran into a computer glitch that led to hundreds of thousands of frustrated fans unable to log into the official ticketing website at the appointed hour. The computer glitch that caused the problem a week ago, Denton explained, was a change in...
Tags: ski jumper, B.C. Court of Appeal, B.C. Ambulance Service, winter olympic, olympic ticketing, female ski, ski jumping, Vancouver Organizing Committee, خليج فارس, Canada, Vancouver, Tickets, Winter Olympics, Ticket, allnews, Sikh, Guru Nanak Dev, Revolutionaries, Sikh gurus, Disaster Accident, Lindsey Van, Winter Olympic Games, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Law Crime, International Olympic Committee, flu pandemic, Swine influenza, Influenza vaccine, Pandemics, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Epidemics, Health Medical Pharma
IOC awards Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games broadcast rights
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 9 days ago
Credibility The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Friday announced agreements with MediaCorp, SingTel and StarHub to become the official broadcasters within Singapore for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010. Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS),...
Tags: youth olympic, olympic games, Singapore, IOC Executive Board, SingTel, MediaCorp, StarHub, Pakistan, Islamabad, Summer Youth Olympics, Youth Olympic Games, International Olympic Committee, Singapore Telecommunications, Technology Internet, Entertainment Culture, Olympics, Sports rules and regulations, Multi-sport events, allnews
Ex-French Olympics chief Serandour dies
Paris :: France | 9 days ago
Credibility Thursday at the age of 72 after a long illness, it was announced here. May 2009 when he handed power to Denis Masseglia, a vice-president...He was shattered by France's failure to win the right to host the 2012 Olympics and caused controversy in 2008...
Tags: Henri Serandour, CNOSF, France, Paris, Summer Olympics, Hercule Poirot, Henri Sￃﾩrandour, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, allnews
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