VIENNA AFP — The drugs scandal involving Austrian skiers at last year's Winter Games claimed a high profile scalp on Tuesday with the resignation of the vice-president of the country's Olympic committee. Peter Schocksnadel said he was quitting his post as he was no longer able to defend the...
VIENNA AFP — Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said Salzburg's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics could not be measured in monetary terms during the third day of the visit by the IOC evaluation commission on Friday. The Austrian city is up against the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi...
KRASNAIA POLIANA, Russia AFP — A smiling Russian president Vladimir Putin demonstrated his skiing skills while promoting the 2014 Winter Olympic bid by Sochi. Putin, an advanced skier, made several descents and then posed for photographers with children from the station's skiing school. Putin said the Black Sea...
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NEW DELHI AFP — Sergei Bubka, the greatest pole vaulter of all time, has tennis on his mind these days. The legendary athlete's son, named Sergei Bubka Junior, preferred tennis after a brief flirtation with pole vault and is now a regular on the ATP's second-string Challenger circuit. ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, United States AFP — Bob Ctvrtlik was named international vice-president for the US Olympic Committee USOC, the new post aimed at increasing USOC interaction with global sport groups. Ctvrtlik, 42, is one of three Americans on the International Olympic Committee IOC, joined by Anita DeFrantz and Jim...
COLORADO SPRINGS, United States AFP — Possible budget cuts and jailing of dope cheats are concerns that will be solved before the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics begin in 120 days, an organizing committee official said. Italian lawmakers have proposed trimming 16 million euros from the Games budget to ease...
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LONDON AFP — London's bid to host the 2012 Olympics suffered a blow when they withdrew their enticement to the 10,500 athletes and team officials of free flights to London, free phone calls and free British train travel. It comes just two days ahead of The International Olympic Committee's...
PARIS AFP — The race for the right to host the 2012 Olympics has come down to a three-city contest between Paris, London and New York, sources close to the IOC's evaluation commission have told AFP. The draft report of the 13-strong commission, who spent four days in each...
PARIS AFP — A private IOC poll into public support for the five cities vying for the right to hold the 2012 Olympics has delivered a blow to New York, one of the favourites. The International Olympic Committee poll reveals that only 59 percent of New Yorkers are backing...
LONDON AFP — London Mayor Ken Livingstone refused, for a third time this week, to apologise for offensive remarks made to a Jewish journalist. Despite a fresh call Friday from Prime Minister Tony Blair to say sorry, Livingstone was in no mood to back down. However, the left-wing...
MADRID AFP — The IOC's evaluation commission arrived in Madrid - the first port of call in its tour of the five cities vying to stage the 2012 Olympic Games. The 12-strong commission, which will spend four days in the Spanish capital, is led by 1984 Olympic women's 400m...
MADRID AFP — Madrid claimed that their bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games had received an early boost following the first full day of an International Olympic Committee IOC evaluation commission visit. "We are very satisfied," said Feliciano Mayoral, the deputy president of the Madrid-2012 bid committee. ...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Marion Jones again denied taking banned drugs to help win five gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, her latest statement coming hours after the International Olympic Committee announced a steroid probe. IOC chief Jacques Rogge has asked the group's disciplinary commission to investigate the doping...
MOSCOW AFP — Russia plan to challenge the International Olympic Committee's decision to allow American rider Tyler Hamilton to keep his time-trial gold medal despite failing a doping test in Athens. Hamilton has twice tested positive for a blood transfusion in the last month. First in Athens after winning...
LAUSANNE AFP — The five bidding cities for the 2012 summer games will be visited from February 3 to March 17, the International Olympic Committee said. The IOC's evaluation commission will visit Madrid from February 3 to 6, London from February 16 to 19, New York from February 21...
Olympics IOC CHECKS OUT MADRID: Madrid will be the first stop on an IOC tour to assess the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics. The IOC said Monday its evaluation commission will visit the Spanish capital on Feb. 3-6, followed by London, New York, Paris and Moscow....
SOFIA AFP — Ivan Slavkov was set to come before the International Olympic Committee ethics commission in Lausanne after being suspended on August 14 for suspected corruption. The 64-year-old president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, the son-in-law of the late Bulgarian communist dictator Todor Zivkov, risks being thrown out...
SEOUL AFP ? South Korea's International Olympic Committee vice president Kim Un-Yong told an appeals court hearing he had been wrongly convicted and jailed on corruption charges, the presiding judge said. "Mr. Kim Un-Yong continued to plead not guilty," Kim Yong-Kwan, a senior judge at the Seoul High Court,...
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