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2016 Games bid cities launch final year of campaigning
By Karolos Grohmann
ATHENS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Four cities vying to host the 2016 summer Olympics throw themselves into a final year of hectic campaigning on Thursday to convince the IOC their bid has what it takes to deliver a successful Games.
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Female ski jumpers push lawsuit over Games
(Adds VANOC reaction)
By Allan Dowd
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A coalition of international women ski jumpers, suing for the right to compete in the 2010 Olympics, boosted their case on Wednesday by adding an another athlete from host country Canada.
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Rogge says global crisis won’t hurt Olympic cities
By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP)—IOC president Jacques Rogge says the global financial crisis should not hurt preparations for upcoming Olympics.
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Rogge says IOC more credible on doping since Beijing
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a more credible organisation on doping since the Beijing Games where only eight athletes were suspended for using banned substances, said president Jacques Rogge.
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By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP)—The Beijing Olympics ended a month ago and still, not a single American athlete has been reported for a positive doping test.
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El Moutawakel to head panel on 2016 Olympic bids
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—Former Moroccan gold medalist Nawal El Moutawakel will lead the IOC panel assessing the four bids for the 2016 Olympics.
The highest ranking woman on the International Olympic Committee, El Moutawakel was appointed Thursday as chair of the 2016 evaluation commission.
The panel will visit the four candidate cities—Chicago; Madrid, Spain; Tokyo; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—in the first quarter of 2009 and compile a report assessing the bids.
The report will be sent to IOC members one month before they vote on the host city on Oct. 2, 2009, at their session in Copenhagen, Denmark.
El Moutawakel also headed the IOC evaluation commission for the 2012 Olympics, which were awarded to London in 2005.
“The team will have the complex and exciting task to evaluate the potential of four highly capable candidate cities,” she said in a statement. “Our role will be to assess their technical capabilities in a transparent and neutral way.”
El Moutawakel became the first woman from a predominantly Muslim nation to win an Olympic medal when she took gold in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. She was the first Moroccan athlete to win a gold medal.
El Moutawakel was elected to the IOC executive board at the Beijing Olympics, the first woman from a Muslim nation on the rule-making body.
Members of the evaluation commission also include Olympic Games executive director Gilbert Felli; IOC members Craig Reedie of Britain, C.K Wu of Taiwan, Guy Drut of France and Mounir Sabet of Egypt; athlete representative Alexander Popov of Russia; Els van Breda Vriesman of the Netherlands, representing the international sports federations; and Australian Gregory Hartung of the International Paralympic Committee.
A representative of national Olympic committees and advisers will be appointed later.
“We have a professional team with a wide range of knowledge and experience,” IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
Updated: 2007-11-16 From: Xinhuanet
MADRID, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — The International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said on Thursday that “zero-tolerance” policy against doping would see a notable increase in drug tests to be conducted in the Beijing Olympics next year.
Looking ahead to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Rogge revealed the IOC would be enforcing their “zero tolerance” policy on doping by conducting some 4,500 tests in and out of competition.
“That is 25 percent more than in Athens in 2004 and 90 percent higher than in Sydney in 2000,” said the IOC head at the opening ceremony of the World Conference on Doping in Sports.
Rogge also highlighted a series of measures recently proposed to strengthen the policy.
“These measures include the denial of participation in the next Olympic Games for athletes and their entourage who have been sanctioned for more than six months,” he said.
“We will impose automatic suspensions after a positive A sample.
“We will impose stronger financial penalties for national Olympic committees and athletes and implement stricter interpretations related to Therapeutic Use Exemptions.”
