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If you can feel the excitement as the International Olympic Committee nears a July vote on the site of the 2014 Winter Games--well, you have a delicate enough touch to win gold in curling. After frenzied bidding for '08 (Beijing) and '12 (London), this race--between Pyeongchang, South Korea; Salzburg, Austria, and Sochi, Russia--is low-profile even by Winter standards. Winter Olympiads are largely a way to put a ski village on the map; the Summer Games can be an image-changing urban-renewal tool. IOC pickers increasingly vote for the Winter site defensively, factoring in whom they favor for the next Summer Games. One aspect that could add urgency: global warming may cut the number of cities cold enough to host. "The Alps may become a dwindling prospect," says Ed Hula, editor of the Around the Rings newsletter.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) includes among its members active athletes and presidents of the International Sports Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs). Numerous IOC members participated at the Olympic Games as athletes, including medal winners.
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On Human Rights Day, Olympic Watch’s Chairman Jan Ruml wrote a letter to Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging him to raise human rights issues with China at every possible occasion. The letter informs Mr. Rogge of the Minimum Standards for Beijing 2008 (which were enclosed as an attachment to the letter) as a joint position of several human rights organizations. Lastly, Mr. Ruml raises the case Ye Guozhu, an evictee activist, whose plight is typical of the kind of human rights abuse in China today, and urges Rogge to inquire about his case during his next meeting with the Beijing 2008 Olympics organizers.
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Reuters reported on Tuesday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decide to reschedule some events at the Beijing Games if it finds the level of air pollution to be a health threat to athletes. The decision to reschedule will be decided just before or even during the Games.
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In a scathing report released just weeks before the start of the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, the White House Office of Drug Policy criticized the International Olympic Committee's drug testing program. The report, based on a two-year, $1 million study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, concludes that that the financial windfall available to medal-winning athletes motivates many competitors to use performance-enhancing substances. The report ... highlights the IOC's conflict of interest in conducting drug testing: while the organization claims to want drug-free competition, the image of the Games, and their ability to attract lucrative corporate sponsors, would be damaged if star athletes were eliminated from competition by positive drug tests. The body responsible for overseeing drug testing at the Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency, is a part of the IOC. A new worldwide anti-doping agency, independent of the IOC, should be established to ensure fair and effective testing of athletes, the report concludes.
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Validated by IOC, the Olympic Flame will be lit in Olympia, Greece according to tradition on March 25, 2008. From March 25 - 30, the Torch Relay will travel across Greece, ending at the Panathinaiko Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. After the handover ceremony in the stadium, the Olympic Flame will arrive in Beijing on March 31, 2008. In Beijing, a ceremony will be held for the arrival of the flame into China and Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay will commence.
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