The 2010 Winter and 2012 Summer Games in London alone cost it $2.2 billion. The network paid $894 million for the Summer Games last year in Beijing, ...Read the complete article: IOC Looking at $2 Billion for US Olympics Rights
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The lawyers of Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou have sent a letter to the IOC contesting the decision to deny her Marion Jones' 100-meter gold medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.Read the complete article: Thanou sends letter to IOC contesting medal snub
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Last week, the IOC executive board reallocated the 200 gold medal and long jump bronze stripped from Jones for doping but declined to upgrade Thanou from silver to gold in the 100.
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The IOC said Thanou did not deserve to be promoted because she had "disgraced herself and the Olympic Movement" with her behaviour at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where she avoided a drug test and then faked a motorcycle accident.Read the complete article: Katerina Thanou to appeal IOC's decision not to award her Marion Jones' Sydney ...
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One option would be an appeal to the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, while her lawyer, Gregory Ioannidis, has indicated that she may sue the IOC for damages.
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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Dec. 15, 2009) - Today, at the Montreal-Trudeau Airport, CATSA presented its Winter Games team made up of Screening Officers going to British Columbia and those remaining vigilant at home. CATSA also reminded travellers that they need to pack smart to avoid delays at pre-board screening during the busy winter travel season.Read the complete article: CATSA Presents its Winter Games Team and Reminds Travellers to Pack Smart
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"Screening Officers across the country during the Winter Games will be as vigilant as ever. That's because they understand that no matter where they are in the country, their efforts - individually and collectively - make a difference", said Kevin McGarr, President and Chief Executive Officer at CATSA.
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VANCOUVER - Not so long ago, 2010 Olympic organizers were struggling to cope with the huge task of staging a Winter Games in the teeth of a world-wide recession.Read the complete article: Companies scramble to sponsor the Games
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The late interest has resulted in organizers going "well past" their original revenue target of $760-million in domestic sponsorship dollars, with more on the way, VANOC deputy chief executive officer Dave Cobb said Monday.
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No names have been confirmed by the committee but outsiders see a healthy list of potential chiefs whose first job would be to shore up relations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and combat the U.S. group's reputation for arrogance.Read the complete article: US Olympic Committee near new CEO, eyes Vancouver
Among the possible choices are A.D. Frazier, radio station owner and chief operating officer of the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, International Baseball Federation President Harvey Schiller, former Salt Lake City Olympic executive Fraser Bullock, National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, and Heidi Ueberroth, an NBA executive and daughter of former powerful USOC Chairman Peter Ueberroth.
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When it was added to the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, it was as if a pot of gold had been placed at the end of their snowbank.Read the complete article: Flashback: Rebagliati won gold, lost it, and got it back at 1998 Winter Games
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His Olympic giant slalom event included two runs down Mount Yakebitai on the first Sunday of those '98 Games. When Rebagliati placed eighth in the first run under blue skies, it appeared that his medal hopes had gone up in smoke. The wind picked up. Snow began to fall. A fog rolled in. The temperature quickly dropped. Things were not looking good.
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The International Olympic Committee redistributed the medals won by the disgraced sprinter Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympics on Wednesday, ...Read the complete article: IOC Redistributes Jones's Medals and Retires One
The IOC executive board on Wednesday nominated six new members - including three women - for election at the IOC general assembly in Vancouver in February. ...Read the complete article: Jordanian prince among 6 proposed new IOC members
Ron Judd, an Olympics junkie and Seattle Times columnist who has covered Olympic sports since 1997, will use this space to serve up news and opinion on the Summer and Winter Games -- also inviting you to chime in on Planet Earth's biggest get-together.Read the complete article: Woodinville luger Niccum qualifies for 2010 Games
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Veteran doubles luge slider Christian Niccum of Woodinville and his sliding partner, Dan Joye of Carmel, N.Y., qualifed for the 2010 Games today with a fourth-place World Cup finish in Lillehammer, Norway.
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Gold for Thanou would have sent the message that athletes can spit on the rules of fair play and get away with it. The IOC would have appeared spineless, valueless, had it wriggled out of this by saying it has no proof that Thanou was dirty in 2000 and therefore couldn't prevent her from inheriting the medal. The notion that Olympic gold represents the highest pinnacle of sporting achievement would have been tarnished.Read the complete article: Tough justice ensures Olympic gold glitters
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has given the late Jack Poole their highest honour, The Olympic Order, according to a report by the Vancouver Sun.Read the complete article: IOC posthumously awards its highest honor to late Vancouver Organizing ...
Mr. Poole, one of the people behind the bid by Vancouver to host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, passed away on October 23 after losing a fight with pancreatic cancer.
The CEO of the Vancouver organizing committee (VANOC), John Furlong, was quoted as saying "Jack Poole is truly deserving of the tremendous honour of the Olympic Order in recognition of his enormous contribution to the 2010 Games," also stating that further comment will be made when the IOC makes a formal announcement of the award.
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Willard has been involved in Special Olympics for almost 10 years and was a member of the Summit County Warrior regulation volleyball team that recently won the state title at the Special Olympics State Summer Games.Read the complete article: Local man chosen for National Games
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“Brooks puts forth the effort to go above and beyond every time he is competing,” Caler said. “The coaches feel he will be a huge asset to Team Ohio as it competes in the National Games.
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