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In 1936, The International Olympic Committee(IOC) put on one of the saddest propaganda displays in human history. They did this on behalf of a crazy despot who would go on to execute millions of people for not measuring up to the standards of an Aryan Superman master race. The 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, served as a great coming out party for international fascism. It was a form of warfare before the first shots of WW II were ever fired. With Leni Riefenstahl panning the camera, the propaganda film Olympia hit the screens in 1938 to spread the false...

Beijing events could be postponed in case of heavy pollution: IOC Monday • March 17, 2008 The International Olympic Committee said Monday that it would set up a special panel to recommend the postponement of events at the Beijing Olympics in case of heavy pollution. IOC Medical Commission chairman, Arne Ljungqvist, announcing the IOC's own analysis of air quality data for Beijing, said that the body would be formed with representatives from his commission and from sports federations. "We have to have a mechanism in place to provide the coordination commission with the facts," he said, referring to the IOC...

BEIJING (AP) -- Beijing's air quality is better than expected, though a study shows athletes in outdoor endurance events will face some risks from pollution and the weather may be less than ideal at this summer's Olympics. ...snip... an analysis by four independent experts of data supplied by Beijing organizers found heat and humidity might be a greater threat to athletes than the city's noxious air. ...snip... "It means we may not see much of world records under unfavorable conditions, but that's not the main purpose of the Olympic Games -- to set records."

BERLIN (AFP) - International Olympic Committee vice-president Thomas Bach said a number of top athletes were considering boycotting the games in China over the bloody crackdown on protesters in Tibet. Bach told Bild am Sonntag newspaper he understood the athletes' concerns about the situation in Tibet but said he was advising them to participate. "They will realise when they assess the situation that it is better to make an appearance than to stay away. That is a symbol that will be noticed by the public," he said. Asked if human rights had been a concern when Beijing was selected to...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China's crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes. "We believe that the boycott doesn't solve anything," Rogge told reporters on this Caribbean island. "On the contrary, it is penalizing innocent athletes and it is stopping the organization from something that definitely is worthwhile organizing." Demonstrations against Chinese rule in Tibet on Friday — the most violent riots there in nearly two decades — left at least 30 protesters dead, according to a...

The International Olympic Committee has deigned to allow athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to blog. However, the IOC wants to make sure that athletes know the rules beforehand. They cannot post pictures, audio, or video of the events because the IOC does not recognize blogs as a form of journalism: The IOC has set out guidelines for blogging at the Beijing Games to ensure copyright agreements are not infringed. They include bans on posting any audio or visual material of action from the games themselves. ... "The IOC considers blogging... as a legitimate form of personal expression and not...

Rights group lashes IOC chief over China controls Fri Nov 30, 1:11 AM ET The International Olympics Committee has failed to ensure that China honors promised media freedoms ahead of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games, a press rights group has claimed. In an open letter to IOC President Jacques Rogge, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders recounted cases of foreign reporters briefly detained and roughed up while investigating village protests and other sensitive topics. China has vowed to set aside long-standing restrictions on foreign reporters before and during the Games, allowing them to roam the country without the usual need for official approval...

BEIJING (AP) - The Olympic Games are a year away, but protests have already begun from groups who want the event to change China. Also clouding the picture Tuesday was a thick blanket of smog that has hovered over the city for weeks—not the blue skies hoped for by the organizers of the Beijing Games. Officials including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will mark the start of the one-year countdown with a lavish ceremony Wednesday in Tiananmen Square. But on Tuesday, Chinese authorities detained six activists descending part of the Great Wall with a 450-square-foot banner reading, "One World,...

Synchronised swimming not for gays The governing body for aquatic sports and their World Masters Championships insist that synchronised swimming is for females 09-August-2006 Tony Grew A gay synchronised swimming team has been banned from performing at an international meet, as the International Olympic Committee continues to insist that the sport is for females only. The ten men and four women squad from the San Francisco Tsunami Swim Club had been invited to perform a routine at the FINA Masters in Stamford, California this week. Local organisers knew that the male team would not be able to compete organised a...

A men's synchronized swim team has been barred from a meet at Stanford University, reinforcing an International Olympics Committee decision designating the sport as women-only. The San Francisco Tsunami Swim Club's team was set to perform an exhibition at the Federation Internationale de Natation World Masters Championships. But the international governing body that oversees the meet scuttled the plans. The synchro team has competed at national competitions, the Gay Games and the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships. San Francisco Tsunami describes itself on its Web site as a gay and lesbian aquatics team that is open to all.

STOCKHOLM, March 2 (Reuters) - Sweden could lose their Olympic gold from Turin after breaking IOC sponsorship rules during their homecoming celebration three days ago, the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) said on Wednesday. The Swedish hockey federation showcased their own sponsors rather than those of the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK) during Monday's celebrations at Medborgarplatsen in south Stockholm. IOC rules state that only Olympic sponsors are allowed during the Olympic season, which officially ended on Wednesday, despite the last sporting events taking place on February 26. "SOK will do everything so that Tre Kronor (the Sweden team) don't run the...

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GREEK IOC member Lambis Nikolaou today denied playing a part in a voting mix-up during the July elections that allegedly led to London's selection as host-city of the 2012 Olympics. "The speculation concerning my role during the third voting round in the 2012 (host) city elections are completely without foundation," Mr Nikolaou said in a statement. "I did not vote in the third round, something I had already announced during the procedure," he said. The controversy arose on December 23, when Israeli senior IOC member Alex Gilady told BBC News 24 that London only won the bid for the 2012...

LONDON -- International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge plans to investigate reports China's child gymnasts and swimmers are being beaten by their coaches. Rogge was responding to a BBC report in which four-time Olympic rowing gold medalist Matthew Pinsent visited a school in Beijing -- host of the 2008 Olympics -- and saw child athletes being beaten.

London, Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow will finally learn on Wednesday who has prevailed in the battle to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.The cities' fate lies in the hands of the International Olympic Committee members (IOC), who may take less than an hour to reach a verdict. IOC president Jacques Rogge is expected to announce the winner at 1246 BST.BBC Sport explains the voting process and looks for clues on how it could go in Singapore. Who decides? Voters profiled Going for gold: Interactive voting guide   CHOOSING THE WINNER RIVAL IOC MEMBERS GB: Princess Royal, Craig Reedie,...

LONDON (AP) -- IOC president Jacques Rogge welcomed the resignation of the committee's jailed vice president and suggested a suspended Bulgarian member should do the same thing. Rogge made his first public comments Tuesday on the resignation of Kim Un-yong, who is serving a two-year prison term in South Korea on corruption charges. Kim, whose resignation was accepted Friday, stepped down rather than face an expulsion vote at the International Olympic Committee session in Singapore in July. "It's always nice not to have to vote on the exclusion of a colleague," Rogge said. "I still believe that the session would...

It was a small gesture, but a pointed one, and designed to underscore the Queen's staunch support for London's Olympic bid. As members of the International Olympic Committee attended a banquet last night, Buckingham Palace abandoned tradition to present each with a menu card written not in French, but English. For as long as anyone can remember menus at the Queen's official banquets have been written in French, generally regarded as the international language of cuisine. But, as three generations of the Royal Family and the Prime Minister joined sporting stars and dignitaries in the State Dining Room alongside the...

Olympic case dropped against Hamilton; Still facing Vuelta sanctions IOC medical chief blames lab error for 'inconclusive B-Sample' By Charles Pelkey news editor, VeloNews This report filed September 23, 2004 Tyler Hamilton's Olympic gold medal may be safe after the International Olympic Committee dropped disciplinary proceedings against him, but the Phonak rider could still face a two-year ban from cycling based on evidence of blood doping at the Vuelta a España. The IOC announced Thursday that it had dropped disciplinary proceedings against the Olympic time trial champion, begun after "an adverse analytical finding" on his A sample from the Athens...

IOC president's role questioned in Greek doping Rogge asked whereabouts of top sprinters, set deadline for info ATHENS, Greece - A top Greek athletics official on Saturday questioned the role of International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge in a doping case involving Greece’s top two sprinters. Greek athletics federation president Vassilis Sevastis said Rogge had asked about the whereabouts of Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou hours before they missed drug tests on the eve of the Olympics and set a two-hour deadline for the information. “It’s unheard of (for the International Olympic Committee president) to ask where these athletes are....

Friday, August 27, 2004 ELECTION 2004Bush to Olympics: Drop deadWhite House refuses to pull ad pushing freedom around world Posted: August 27, 20044:13 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The White House is thumbing its nose at officials with the 2004 Olympic Games, and will continue to run a President Bush re-election commercial which uses the Olympiad as a backdrop. "We are on firm legal ground to mention the Olympics to make a factual point in a political advertisement," campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters. "The ad reflects the president's optimism that freedom is overcoming terror, and democracy is spreading throughout the world."...