BEIJING AFP — Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt replied to criticism directed at him by IOC President Jacques Rogge on Friday by saying that he was not disrespectful to his rivals, he was just out to have fun and entertain. The 22-year-old Jamaican - who had just added a...
BEIJING AFP — When veteran Chinese leader Zhou Enlai was asked in the early 1970s what he thought of the impact of the French Revolution of 1789, he replied: "It is too early to say." How much harder then to speculate on the future. And when it came...
LONDON AFP — The Beijing Olympics will see the biggest anti-doping effort in history but the omens for a drug-free Games are not good. Alongside steroids and the blood-booster EPO, testers have promised developments in tracing substances such as human growth hormone, which are undetectable with standard testing methods....
LAUSANNE, Switzerland AFP — The head of the International Olympic Committee IOC Jacques Rogge on Monday said there was "confusion" among the public about the rising costs of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "There is unfortunately some confusion among the general public between the operational budget for the...
PENSACOLA, Florida AFP — Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin renewed his challenge of a drugs ban before a US judge on Monday, but the International Olympic Committee said the court had no jurisdiction in the matter. Gatlin took his case to court after losing his appeal to the Swiss-based...
BEIJING AFP — International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday that protests dogging the torch relay had left the Games in crisis and urged Beijing to honour pledges to improve human rights. After hundreds of baton-wielding police shielded the Olympic torch through San Francisco to avoid the chaos...
BEIJING AFP — International Olympic Committee chiefs met Friday to wrap up a week of meetings in Beijing that have been overshadowed by controversy surrounding China and disruptions to the Olympic torch relay. With the flame now in Buenos Aires, the IOC executive board was to discuss whether future...
BEIJING AFP — Beijing Olympic organisers said Monday they backed a ban on political protests by athletes attending this year's Games, amid uproar over an effort to silence British athletes. Following widespread anger, the British Olympic Association BOA backed down Sunday on its plan to prevent British competitors from...
WASHINGTON AFP — US lawmakers moved quickly to show support for Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid, announcing plans here Sunday for legislation to ease visa hassles for Olympic athletes, officials and coaches. One day after the US Olympic Committee Board of Directors approved the Illinois city over co-finalist Los Angeles...
SOCHI, Russia AFP — Organisers of the Sochi Olympic bid expressed confidence Wednesday that the city could offer the most compact venue for the 2014 Winter Games. International Olympic Committee IOC representatives began the third of their five-day evaluation of the southern resort by visiting the site planned for...
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea AFP — President Roh Moo-Hyun has urged the International Olympic Committee IOC to award the 2014 winter Games to South Korea as a way to bring peace to the divided peninsula. The hosting of the Games "in the only remaining country divided by Cold War rivalries"...
GENEVA AFP — North Korea and South Korea have made major progress on the way to creating a unified team for the 2008 Games in Beijing, the International Olympic Committee said. The two countries agreed following talks during the Asian Games this month to tackle the key technical issues of...
STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden could, in theory at least, lose its much celebrated ice hockey gold from the 2006 Turin Winter Games due to a team homecoming celebration that violated Olympic regulations, the Swedish Olympic Committee SOK told AFP. "It's a theoretical question but the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation...
The first World Baseball Classic confirmed that baseball is no longer simply the national pastime of a single country, the United States. (1) It is thoroughly international. The sport has become a national pastime in several other countries, including Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, and...
COLORADO SPRINGS, United States AFP — US Olympic Committee officials will fight to have softball reinstated to the Olympics and women's ski jumping added by 2010, but will not push for baseball's return to the Games lineup. Softball's ouster from the Olympic sport offerings came on a 52-52 vote...
SINGAPORE AFP — British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac managed to avoid an unseemly row over culinary heritage as they went into Olympic battle for the respective capital cities. The two leaders, whose relationship has often been difficult, especially since a recent bitter row over...
SINGAPORE AFP — Political and sporting heavyweights from five of the world's greatest cities staged a frantic final round of lobbying in Singapore as Olympic officials prepared to decide the venue for the 2012 Games. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC's) annual session was due to open on Tuesday evening,...
NEW YORK AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lent her political weight to New York City's 2012 Olympic bid, joining a send-off rally for the delegation attending next week's International Olympic Committee meeting in Singapore. New York is competing with Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow for the...
PARIS AFP — New York 2012 bid leaders are in a race against time to save their crumbling Olympic dreams. One senior bid official admitted by phone to AFP that they had until this weekend to find a solution following the rejection of the planned two billion dollar Olympic...
PARIS AFP — Olympic long-jump legend Bob Beamon has accused London 2012 bid leader, double gold medalist Sebastian Coe, of treating fellow Olympians with a lack of respect. Beamon is furious his photograph was used in a promotional brochure for the London bid without his permission. The brochure,...
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