Word: ioc
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...retrospect, you had to see it coming. The Australians had boasted for years that the 2000 Olympics would be "the cleanest Games ever" and that they were going to test athletes on an even more stringent standard than the ones the IOC usually uses...
...country riven by civil war since 1991, lacking a government until elections were held two weeks ago, the Somali Olympic Committee has struggled to get even those two athletes to the Games. "We are a poor country," says SOC president Farah Addo, with great understatement. The IOC, which routinely offers assistance to smaller countries, granted the team $22,000. That covered the cost of travel, insurance and equipment. "But what about the three years preparing them, buying all the equipment, feeding them, keeping them in training?" Addo says. None of the major sporting goods companies has offered any assistance...
...IOC insists it is only trying to protect the public. "We want to recover the URLs from people who have websites that claim an affiliation with us that does not exist," says IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber. "Some are claiming to sell tickets they do not have, and others are promoting betting on the Olympics." But the IOC, an organization not renowned for its sensitivity to criticism, appears also to be trying to stifle coverage. Servan-Schreiber says that once the IOC had "recovered" disputed URLs, it would allow responsible organizations to license them. "This would give us more editorial...
...appropriate commercial purposes. "This is a classic example of the net running faster than the people on the ground," said Jonathan Robinson, CEO of NetBenefit, probably Europe's largest domain name registration company. A staunch defender of trademarks on the Internet, Robinson has some sympathy for the IOC's plight but he believes that they are going...
...real danger created by this dispute is that the IOC has chosen to fight in the U.S. courts rather than in the international tribunals which have been adjudicating these disputes. ICANN and WIPO have been slowly developing the competence and collecting the precedents necessary to create a truly global arbitration process worthy of the World Wide Web. If any organization should understand the importance of global cooperation it should be the IOC. But the ancient Greek proscription against engaging in warfare during the Olympic games apparently is lost on these modern defenders of something even more important than the Olympic...