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...Iraqi minister of sport and youth, in a letter, that it would uphold an earlier ban on the Iraqi Olympic team after the government unilaterally replaced the members of its national Olympic panel - the Iraqi affiliate of the international committee - two months ago. The move was taken by the IOC as corrupt conduct and it cited "political interference" as its reason for the ban. "We deeply regret this outcome which severely harms the Iraqi Olympic and Sports Movement and the Iraqi athletes but which is unfortunately imposed by the circumstances," read the letter. In May the Committee had given Iraq...
...meter runner, whose best times are far slower than international standards, was an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship athlete, paid for by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and trained by the IAAF, a program that offers special opportunities to competitors in troubled conditions...
...they were unaware of Andyar's whereabouts. TIME contacted both the Afghan Olympic Committee and the country's track-and-field association in Kabul, but neither knew where Andyar was. An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have the last word...
Andrei Krotun, leader of the Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta community's protest, says residents have been desperate to draw the attention of the International Olympic Committee to their plight. But when the IOC inspectors finally did come on April 23, he says, police beat up protestors. Police deny any cruelty, and the Voice of Russia radio station quoted French ski star Jean-Claude Killy, the head of the IOC's delegation, as saying that he was impressed with the speed of preparations...
...Apparently this potential for indirect global change played a part in naming China the host of the 2008 ceremonies. The New York Times reported in July 2001 that the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) delegates “expressed widespread hope that a seven-year buildup to the 2008 Games would accelerate openness in China and facilitate improvement in its record on human rights.” IOC President Jacques Rogge recently called upon the Chinese government to respect its “moral engagement” to improve its human rights practices in the months before...