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• Chicago hoping for Obama booster in Olympics bid

  - 2008-08-15

  BEIJING AFP — Should Barack Obama win the US presidential election it would be a huge plus for Chicago's bid to win the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, its bid chief told AFP. Pat Ryan said that both Obama and his Republican rival John McCain were supporting...

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• IOC chief Rogge backs axing D'Arcy from Australian swim team

  - 2008-04-23

  SYDNEY AFP — International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday he supported the Australian Olympic Committee's expulsion of Nick D'Arcy from this year's Beijing Games. D'Arcy, 20, has appealed the AOC's decision to the Confederation of Arbitration for Sport. He was thrown off the team last week...

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• Putin springs a surprise as he leads from the front for Sochi

  - 2007-07-04

  GUATEMALA CITY AFP — Russian President Vladimir Putin duly led the presentation for the Black Sea resort of Sochi here on Wednesday to win the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but stunned his audience by speaking in English in public live for the first time ever. Putin,...

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• Russian resort Sochi wins battle for 2014 Winter Olympics

  - 2007-07-04

  GUATEMALA CITY AFP — President Vladimir Putin played the star role as the Black Sea resort of Sochi won the battle for the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday, bringing the event to Russia for the first time. Sochi, where the Russian president has an official residence, beat the South...

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• Charm factor will help us, says Sochi bid chief

  - 2007-06-26

  PARIS AFP — The natural charm of the Russian character will help win the Black Sea coastal city of Sochi the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, their bid chief Dmitry Chernyshenko told AFP on Tuesday. Chernyshenko, an advertising guru and born in Sochi, added that the fact...

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• Baku will bid for 2016 Summer Olympics: Aliyev

  - 2007-04-09

  MASALLI, Azerbaijan AFP — The Azerbaijani capital Baku, flush with oil revenues, will bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, President Ilham Aliyev said Monday. "We have put forward a bid to host the Olympic Games in 2016," Aliyev said during the opening of a sports complex in the...

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• Olympics: Mayer drops lawsuit against Olympic chief

  - 2007-02-08

  LAUSANNE, Switzerland AFP — Walter Mayer, the former Austrian coach at the centre of the Turin Winter Games doping row last year, has dropped legal action against International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, an IOC spokeswoman said. "We were told the case is dropped and the president is no...

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• SKorea pardons tycoons to boost economy

  - 2007-02-08

  SEOUL AFP — South Korea has announced pardons for more than 430 convicted business leaders and politicians in a bid to boost the economy 10 years after the Asian financial crisis. The list agreed at a cabinet meeting includes Park Yong-Sung, a member of the International Olympic Committee and...

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• New UCI president McQuaid promises new approach

  - 2005-09-23

  MADRID AFP — Irishman Pat McQuaid has been elected the new president of cycling's world governing body at the 174th congress of the International Cycling Union UCI. McQuaid, 56, replaces 64-year-old Dutchman Hein Verbruggen, who has been world cycling's chief for the past 14 years but was nominated an...

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• IOC president Rogge wants WADA policy changed

  - 2005-06-27

  PARIS AFP — IOC president Jacques Rogge has criticised WADA's policy to not consider positive a doping test which contains corticoids at a concentration of less than 30 nanogrammes per millilitre. Rogge told L'Equipe newspaper that the World Anti-Doping Agency's directive to its laboratories should be changed. "It's...

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