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...asked the International Olympic Committee to take the extraordinary step of scheduling the swimming finals in the morning in Beijing - which, since the city is 12 hours ahead of East Coast time, would position them ideally for a live U.S. broadcast. In a letter sent earlier this week to IOC President Dr. Jacques Rogge and obtained by TIME, Kerry Stokes, chairman of Australia's Seven Network, voiced strong objections...
...thrilled to keep it close, or put another way, pleased that Canada kept it close. "We had no tears for disappointment and no tears for happiness," said Swedish captain Erika Holst. Having outscored opponents 46-2, Canada freshened debate about whether women's hockey belongs in the Olympics. The IOC is committed to women's hockey until the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Beyond that date, there's discussion about limiting the tournament to the top-ranked teams and of introducing a measure to thwart lopsided scores...
...Channel has an economy that is motoring along at a steady clip, while France's is mired in high unemployment and anemic growth. President Jacques Chirac was reported earlier this week to have said of the English that "one could not trust people with such awful cooking." The IOC didn't care...
...failure of that approach in the face of full-court lobbying by the British left him bitter. "What made us lose was fair play," Delanoe said from Singapore. In Paris, Pascal Bildstein, vice president of the French Triathlon Federation, was more explicit: "When Princess Anne promises all the IOC members an audience with the Queen, it's just not ethical. This was a victory for Anglo-Saxon lobbying, and a loss for real Olympic values...
...fact, most other athletic organizations are clearly aware of performance-enhancing drugs’ downfalls. The National Basketball Association (NBA), the NFL, as well as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to name but a few, have all instituted random steroid and amphetamine testing. They have also enforced strict penalties in an effort to keep sports drug-free. The IOC, according to its official web site, has been “radically against doping” for the past 30 years, operating under the principles of “protecting athletes’ health, respecting medical and sporting ethics, and maintaining...