Tag: IOC
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IOC Executive Board meeting in February
Lausanne – Switzerland, Jan 17, 2013: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) will meet in Lausanne at the Lausanne Palace Hotel on 12 and 13 February 2013. The EB is scheduled to receive reports from various IOC commissions, including the Olympic Programme Commission, and updates on the activities of the IOC administration and…
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2020 Candidate Cities submit their Files
Lausanne – Switzerland, Jan 07, 2013: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that it has received the Candidature Files of the three Candidate Cities bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games: Istanbul (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan) and Madrid (Spain). [1] The IOC Evaluation Commission, chaired by IOC Vice-President Sir Craig Reedie, will now analyse the…
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Death of IOC Honorary Member Maurice Herzog
Lausanne, Dec 16: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was saddened to learn of the death of IOC honorary member Maurice Herzog at the age of 93. Herzog became an IOC member in 1970, a position he held for a quarter of a century before being named an honorary member in 1995. He was IOC Chief…
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IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens
Lausanne – Switzerland, Dec 05: The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that four athletes who won medals at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games have been disqualified after further analysis of their stored samples resulted in adverse analytical findings. The four athletes are Yuriy Bilonog (1st, men’s shot put; Ukraine), Svetlana…
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World Conference on Sport, Culture and Education
Lausanne, Nov 27: The 8th World Conference on Sport, Culture and Education came to a successful conclusion in Amsterdam (Netherlands) today, with more than 500 participants from 110 countries issuing a call to action in a unanimously approved final Declaration. The Amsterdam Declaration was tabled by International Olympic Committee (IOC) Commission for Culture and Olympic…
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Successful IOC Debriefing of London 2012
Lausanne – Switzerland, Nov 21: The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Debriefing of the London 2012 Games wrapped up today in Rio de Janeiro, bringing a close to a week-long transfer of knowledge between organisers of the Games of the XXX Olympiad and future host cities. Representatives from the IOC and the London 2012 Organising Committee…
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London 2012 Paralympic debrief to begin in Rio
Germany, Nov 20: The organizing committee of what International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven described as the best ever Paralympic Games will share their knowledge and experiences of London 2012 with future organizing committees and the 2020 candidate cities this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Starting on Wednesday (21 November), around 50…
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IOC strips Uzbek wrestler Soslan Tigiev
Lausanne – Switzerland, Nov 07: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has disqualified Uzbek wrestler Soslan Tigiev from the men’s 74kg freestyle wrestling event during the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London, where he placed third. Immediately after his participation in the event on 10 August, Tigiev, 29, provided a urine…
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Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games
Lausanne – Switzerland, Oct 26, 2012: The first visit of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Coordination Commission for the second Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) wrapped up today in Lillehammer, Norway. Chaired by IOC member and USA ice hockey Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero, the Commission was impressed with the early progress made by the Lillehammer…
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IOC Executive Board meeting in December 2012
Lausanne – Switzerland, Oct 24, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) will meet in Lausanne on 4 and 5 December 2012. On the first day, the EB will have a joint meeting with the Executive Council of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC). The EB will then hear reports from IOC…