Category: OLYMPIC
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IOC launches bold initiative on gender equality
Lausanne, Mar 16, 2017: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board today approved a major review project regarding gender equality in the Olympic Movement. With the help of its partners, the Summer and Winter International Sports Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the IOC is undertaking a comprehensive review of the current state of…
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PyeongChang 2018 to deliver Unique Olympic Winter Games experience
Lausanne, Mar 15, 2017: With PyeongChang 2018 now less than a year away, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Coordination Commission wrapped-up its eighth visit (13-15 March 2017) to the Korean host city confident that athletes and fans in 2018 would have a unique Olympic Winter Games experience. Speaking at the end of the meeting, Coordination…
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IOC statement on IOC Member Frank Fredericks
Lausanne, Mar 7, 2017: The IOC Executive Board (EB) met today to discuss the allegations in the ongoing procedure initiated by the French Judicial Authorities against former IAAF President Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata Diack, the then marketing consultant of the IAAF. The IOC EB reiterated its full commitment to cooperate with the…
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Information for the media – IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport in Monaco
Lausanne, Mar 6, 2017: After the success of 2011 and 2014, the 5th edition of this premier international conference in sports and exercise medicine will return to Monaco from 16 to 18 March 2017 (Prevention). This Conference, organised every three years, brings together eminent international specialists in injury and illness prevention to collaborate and share…
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Paris transport operator invites commuters to move for Paris 2024
By Amelia Fisher-Starzynski, Paris, March 3, 2017: Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP Group), Paris’ public transport operator, has today launched a new initiative to encourage physical activity, raise awareness and drive support for Paris’ bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. RATP, a Paris 2024 bid partner, will invite people travelling on…
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Budapest out of Games, LA and Paris already finalists
Feb 23, 2017: Sad news. For the Budapest 2024 team, for the IOC, and more broadly for the entire Olympic movement. Constrained to hold a referendum on his candidacy for the Games of 2024, the Hungarian capital preferred to put the thumbs. She retired from the race, leaving Los Angeles and Paris to compete for…
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Paris 2024 shares its vision for the most sustainable Games ever during innovation conference in Munich
By Amelia Fisher-Starzynski, Paris, Feb 22, 2017: The Paris 2024 Bid Committee has joined stakeholders from across the sporting, business and political spectrum to address the environmental challenges facing the sport industry and share its bold strategy for the most sustainable Games ever at Climate Action’s Sustainable Innovation in Sport 2017 conference in Munich, Germany.…
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Budapest to stop, the race for the Games in the unknown
Budapest, Feb 20, 2017: Viktor Orban, They left at five. They could very soon find themselves in two. Two candidates for one place. And even, who knows, two rivals but no beaten. After Hamburg in November 2015, then Rome last spring, a third postulant at the Summer Games in 2024 could very soon put his…
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Refugee Olympic Team announced as winner of Laureus Sport for Good Award for Sporting Inspiration
Monaco, Feb 13, 2017: On August 5, 2016 ten athletes who made up the Refugee Olympic Team made history and captured the hearts of the world as they walked into the Maracanã Stadium at the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony directly ahead of host nation Brazil. At that moment, the first Refugee Olympic Team to compete…
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Paris 2024 shares its vision for the Paralympic Games at the IPC headquarters
By Amelia Fisher-Starzynski, Paris, Feb 10, 2017: Sir Philip, One week after the submission of the final candidature file to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a delegation from the Paris 2024 Bid Committee has visited the headquarters of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in Bonn, Germany to share its project with leaders of the Paralympic…