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Fifa shows Iraqi footballers the red card after Sunni-Shia struggle
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 days ago
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The decision by Fifa, the world football body, comes three months after Iraq hosted its first international competition since the 2003 American invasion and curbs one of the few joys available to Iraqi civilians. The head office of the Iraqi Football...
Tags: Iraqi Football Association, Baghdad Iraqi, olympic committee, Fifa Emergency Committee, IFA, footballers association, Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq War, Basil Gorgis, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, FIFA, allnews
Skiing chiefs threaten Russian Olympic committee
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 10 days ago
Credibility The International Ski Federation says if the tendency continues, action will be taken against the Russian Olympic committee or whoever is responsible. Russia's stars are currently preparing for the Winter Olympics in three months’ time.
Tags: olympic committee, skiing chiefs, Burkina Faso, Lon, Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, Winter Olympic Games, Kaisa Varis, Sergey Shiryayev, Bioethics, Cheating, Doping, allnews
Iraqi MPs to meet Sunday to break electoral law deadlock
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 days ago
Credibility Iraqi MPs will meet again on Sunday to try to break the deadlock on a stalled electoral law, which has left the country's planned January general election in doubt. "The vote is postponed until tomorrow," parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai told reporters...
Tags: Iraqi Football Association, olympic committee, FIFA, Iraq, Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, Politics, Iraq national football team, Hussein Saeed, allnews, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, Football Association of Ireland, Sport in Iraq, Iraq Football Association, Blatter, and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Sepp Blatter
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
Lukin backs Crawford Report
Sydney :: Australia | 15 days ago
Credibility The report questions so-called funding "bias" towards Olympic sports at the expense of more resources being directed at higher participation sports such as cricket, football codes, basketball, hockey and netball. Despite weightlifting being one of the...
Tags: Australian Institute of Sport, olympic sport, Crawford Report, sport funding, John Coates (sports administrator), olympic committee, David Crawford, federal government, Australia, Sydney, Australian Olympic Committee, Dean Lukin, John Dowling Coates, Olympic Games, allnews, Australian Sports Commission, Coates, Summer Olympics, Sport in Australia, Australia women's national water polo team, Rebecca Rippon, Rudd, Human Interest, Business Finance, Politics, Sports science, Curriculum, Education in England, Exercise, Physical education, Education
Iraq threatened with expulsion by FIFA
Baghdad :: Iraq | 15 days ago
Credibility LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq faces being kicked out of world soccer after its football association was disbanded, the sport's governing body FIFA said Tuesday. "FIFA has learnt that the Iraqi Olympic Committee announced the dissolution of the governing board...
Tags: Iraqi Football Association, FIFA, olympic committee, warns iraq, iraq faces, fifa warns, world soccer, Iraq, Baghdad, Sport in Iraq, Iraq Football Association, allnews, Iraq national football team, Mexico and United States football rivalry, FIFA World Cup records, Diego Maradona, Major League Soccer, Giorgio Chiellini, Robin van Persie, Preki, Post-invasion Iraq 2003￢ﾀﾓpresent, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations
Tagliabue to head a study of USOC
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Olympic Committee announced Thursday former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue would head a committee to study the organization's practices. Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Jim Scherr resigned as the organization's chief executive officer...
Tags: Paul Tagliabue, olympic committee, Chicago, United States Olympic Committee, allnews, Business Finance, Stephanie Streeter, United States at the Olympics, Dick Ebersol, International Olympic Committee, Larry Probst, Sports rules and regulations, Summer Olympics, Rachel Mayer
Chuene and ASA get the boot
Åsa :: Sweden | 26 days ago
Credibility In a surprise move South Africa’s Olympic governing body, Sascoc, has suspended Athletics South Africa (ASA) president Leonard Chuene, the board of ASA and its members “with immediate effect pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation and further...
Tags: Caster Semenya, Athletics South Africa, athlete south, Leonard Chuene, ASA, president leonard, south african, track chief, gender test, olympic committee
100 days from Vancouver, USOC looks for a leader
Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | 28 days ago
Credibility Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes...Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes...That CEO will replace Stephanie Streeter, who is winding down a tenure...
Tags: olympic committee
Winter Games...
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility John Furlong, the CEO of Vancouver�s Olympic Organizing Committee, carries a miner�s lantern containing the Olympic Flame out of the Panathenaic Stadium following a handover ceremony in Athens yesterday. After an eight-day trip around Greece, the flame...
Tags: Metro Vancouver's TransLink, olympic flame, Canada, B.C, Greece, Greek Association, winter games, Victoria International Airport, Fani Halkia, olympic committee
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