WADA chief warns lax doping rules could cost sports slot in Olympics
July 6, 2007
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency warned Friday that “more than a handful” of Olympic sports have failed to comply with anti-doping rules, endangering their place in future games. “We suspect there is substantial noncompliance by many of the international federations,” Dick Pound told the International Olympic Committee assembly.
Russia’s St Petersburg to bid for 2020 Games
July 6, 2007
Russia’s second city St
Petersburg will bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, the city
governor said on Friday, a day after Russia’s Sochi had won the
right to stage the 2014 Winter Games.
Pole vaulter Gibilisco faces two-year doping ban
July 6, 2007
Former pole-vault world champion
Giuseppe Gibilisco is facing a two-year ban for a doping
violation, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Friday.
Illness rules Uganda’s Inzikuru out of Osaka
July 6, 2007
Uganda’s world steeplechase
champion Dorcus Inzikuru will not defend her title in Osaka
after taking a six-month break from running due to ill health,
newspaper reports said.
China to try to engineer perfect Games weather
July 5, 2007
The weather forecast for
Beijing’s August 2008 Olympics Games will be fine and sunny.
And any dark, ominous-looking clouds will be immediately zapped
from the heavens.
IOC official bemoans China Olympics protests, says games ‘force for good’
July 5, 2007
A leading IOC official complained Thursday that political groups are using the 2008 Beijing Games as a platform for protests against China’s government, and insisted that the games are “a force for good.” Hein Verbruggen, the International Olympic Committee member overseeing Beijing’s preparations, said that “all-too-often-unrealistic expectations” were being placed on the games, which begin in…
Several factors at play in Sochi’s win for 2014 Olympics
July 5, 2007
The Putin factor. The Samaranch factor. The African factor. All were crucial in Russia’s victory in the race for the 2014 Winter Olympics, a campaign that underlined the growing influence of global political and economic might in the bid process. “It’s a little frightening for the future because if you are a small country it’s going to be hard to put together a bid like that,” said French IOC member…
IOC approves Youth Olympics; first set for 2010
July 5, 2007
Olympic leaders voted Thursday to create a Youth Olympics meant to drag kids from computer screens and onto the playing fields. The first is planned for summer 2010 for 3,200 athletes, ages 14-18. It would be the first major global sports festival created by the International Olympic Committee since the advent of the Winter Games in 1924.
IOC re-elects 27 members en bloc
July 5, 2007
IOC president Jacques Rogge and 26 other members were re-elected as a group by their colleagues Thursday in a process instituted after the Salt Lake City bidding scandal. The 27 members were put to a vote in one bloc at the International Olympic Committee assembly. They were re-elected to eight-year terms in a secret ballot by a vote of 90-5 with four abstentions.
Olympic vote a boost for Russia, Putin
July 5, 2007
A single road snakes past shabby houses and dismal small farms, marking the way from Sochi’s seashore into the mountains. Soon, this same route will be transformed, with a gleaming high-tech train line and smooth, swift new roads to carry travelers to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Seven years is a short timetable for such an ambitious project, but the International Olympic Committee believes Russia can…
