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Golf, rugby added to Olympics lineup
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
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Golf and rugby were added to the Olympics lineup for the 2016 and 2020 Summer Games in an International Olympics Committee vote in Denmark Friday. Golf will return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 when Canada's George Lyon took the gold medal.
Tags: International Olympic Committee, IOC, Canada, Rio de Janeiro, Tiger Woods
Jacques Rogge re-elected IOC president
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility Jacques Rogge has been re-elected president of the International Olympic Committee for a final four-year term. The 67-year-old Belgian, who has served as IOC president since 2001, was the only candidate in Friday's election. Rogge needed a simple majority...
Tags: Jacques Rogge, IOC, International Olympic Committee, ioc president
IOC hopes to hit $1billion sponsors goal by Vancouver Games
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility The International Olympic Committee could add as many as three top-tier sponsors in the coming months that would help them meet their $1 billion target for the 2010-2012 two-Games package, IOC marketing chief Gerhard Heiberg said. Heiberg, speaking to...
Tags: IOC, Gerhard Heiberg
Decision on Jones' relay partners expected Dec. 18
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sport's highest court will decide in December whether Marion Jones' U.S. relay teammates can keep their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The International Olympic Committee had originally hoped to have a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport...
Tags: Marion Jones, highest court, Decision on Jones, International Olympic Committee, U.S, sydney olympic, relay teammates, IOC, expected dec, relay partners
IOC rides recession to build best egg
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility The figure is an increase of $US33 million ($A37.08 million) since the start of the year. IOC president Jacques Rogge said this was in part due to cut backs on running expenses "without cutting our assistance to sport" and also to income from marketing...
Tags: IOC, Jacques Rogge, reserve fund
Wie, Pettersen tout golf's bid for Olympic spot
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility Michelle Wie has no doubts about where an Olympic gold medal would rank in the minds of professional golfers. Wie is in Copenhagen to help convince the International Olympic Committee to put golf on the program for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games in a vote...
Tags: IOC, Copenhagen, International Olympic Committee, Jonah Lomu, rugby sevens
NBA ponders regular London games
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The O2 Arena in Docklands hosted a pre-season match between Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz on Tuesday and NBA chiefs want to use the venue again. "We're running out of runway a little bit but we still hope to do it," NBA commissioner David Stern insisted....
Tags: London, NBA Commissioner, David Stern, Luol Deng, Chicago Bulls, IOC, o2 arena, london olympic, Utah Jazz, commissioner david
Olympic questions rise from rubble
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility As Chicago 2016 winds down its operations, questions continue to bubble up about how bid leaders miscalculated their chances of hosting the Olympic Games . Many of the questions have come from Washington, where White House aides over the weekend said...
Tags: NBC Chicago, Regional Loyalties Killed Chicago, Business Reporter Chicago, Patrick Ryan, Rio de Janeiro, IOC, Tokyo, olympic bid, Copenhagen, summer games
IOC asked to monitor human rights
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility The New York-based group has been intensely critical of the rights abuses that occurred in China in the run-up, during and in the wake of last year's Beijing Olympics. They included the imprisonment and harassment of dissidents, censorship and internet...
Tags: IOC, International Sports Monitoring, International Olympic Committee, Vancouver
IOC says no fear of backlash from US sponsors
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 months ago
Credibility The International Olympic Committee's marketing boss believes Chicago's rejection by Olympic voters will not affect the status of Illinois-based McDonald's as a leading sponsor. "(McDonald's) have told us absolutely no," IOC director of television and...
Tags: Chicago, IOC, Rio de Janeiro, U.S, The International Olympic Committee, rio win, The Associated Press, Richard Carrion, Tokyo, chairman richard
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