Another Interesting Piece on the IOC

[Briant_Gumble]

If the mission of the IOC wasn't obvious, they are planning to drop wrestling from the games. Golf and rugby will have events in Rio. Golf as an Olympic event pretty much sums up the IOC.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578299693435845664.html

Wrestling was one of the original Olympic sports and there's more skill to it than a lot of Olympic events.

It's boring as **** to watch though, so I guess the money men don't fancy it.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Hein is Doing CYA

Found in another thread:

February 13 - Hein Verbruggen, Honorary President of the International Cycling Union (UCI), has written to all 15 members of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Board to defend himself over accusations that he was central to a cover-up involving Lance Armstrong.

Interesting cycling did not come up as a sport to end a few days ago given the enormous doping controversy it sustains. I guess the television ratings are excellent.

http://www.insidethegames.biz/sport...ggen-denies-involvement-in-armstrong-cover-up

 

[skippy]

Inside the games Comments do not seem to work , so here is my contribution :

" Why would anyone have to write to their " peers " if they were Innocent ? Smells fishy that , HV said , " NEVER , Never , never .." about Armstrong , then Lance reveals the TRUTH !

Daily we see the Aigle tag team duo , coming out with a series of " Foot in mouth " declarations , which bury their credibility deeper in the mire !

Only recently we had HV , reveal that it was routine , to tell Cycling Stars , that they had exceeded the " Doping Limits " ! He says , so that gthey would give up Doping ? Who was he kidding ?

At 71+yo , time he considered retiring , before the Swiss Authorities , act on the information supplied by Paul Kimmage's Lawyer , in Nov 2012 !

 

[purcell]

Wrestling was one of the original Olympic sports and there's more skill to it than a lot of Olympic events.

It's boring as **** to watch though, so I guess the money men don't fancy it.

I think the real problem with wrestling is that it does not require any fancy new facilities to put on. If the host cities don't have to build a new $500 million arena there is probably less room for bribery and skimming by the IOC and it's "executive members"

 

[DirtyWorks]

I think the real problem with wrestling is that it does not require any fancy new facilities to put on. If the host cities don't have to build a new $500 million arena there is probably less room for bribery and skimming by the IOC and it's "executive members"

More simply, they have broadcasting problems too. They don't have cameras sufficiently close to the action. A number of their sports have the same production values they did 20 years ago. Why? I don't know.

Compare London's wrestling production values with Track and Field and it's clear how much better Track and Field has done improving the broadcasted show.

 

[del1962]

More simply, they have broadcasting problems too. They don't have cameras sufficiently close to the action. A number of their sports have the same production values they did 20 years ago. Why? I don't know.

Compare London's wrestling production values with Track and Field and it's clear how much better Track and Field has done improving the broadcasted show.

Wrestling as a spectacle is the WWF, nothing to do with sport though

 

[DirtyWorks]

Wrestling as a spectacle is the WWF, nothing to do with sport though

That's not what I'm talking about though. The legitimate sport is elemental and just plain hard!

 

[D-Queued]

Vomit worthy.

IOC president Rogge voices support for McQuaid

At one point I was disappointed that Mr. R Pound was overlooked for the IOC President role in favor of Rogge. In retrospect, Pound has accomplished a much more impressive legacy for fair sport by establishing WADA.

Rogge can now clearly be identified with the corruption of the old boys club. Between the absurdity of the decision on Wrestling and now the support for one of the biggest crooks in sport, the IOC has fully revealed itself in the last couple of days.

Disgusting.

If there is any core sport which has earned itself an exit from the Olympics on the basis of the merits of its actions, it is cycling.

Dave.

 

[DirtyWorks]

****stan vs. the IOC

The IOC is demanding unconditional, supra-national, sports authority. The first half of the country name bordering India is in the swear filter.

This skirmish between the government of ****stan (country bordering India) and the IOC emphasizes the intent of the IOC to create and sustain a worldwide, completely autonomous monopoly in a wide number of sports.

****stan changed their National Sports policy to emphasize "grassroots" sport. Summarized, as I understand it, the government wants many people participating in sport and will fund the infrastructure to do so, thereby lowering the costs and increasing the opportunity for many to play sports. A report was released in Australia that suggested something similar was more wise and lower cost sports policy and was condemned by Australian IOC members.

In the same policy, they forced term limits (two) onto Olympic officials. the Olympic organization of ****stan's leader has violated those terms.

The IOC is demanding ****stan eliminate the two-term limit and is threatening ****stan with removal if they do not change this policy. Cool, right?

http://www.sports.gov.pk/SportsPolicy/RNSPolicy2005.html

http://www.nation.com.pk/****stan-n...15-Feb-2013/ban-looms-as-ioc-meet-on-****stan

 

[DirtyWorks]

IOC member steals 1.1 Billion Pounds

Rather old story that leads to another, newer story, IOC members accused of sports fraud surrounding the theft of over a billion pounds skimmed off of India's Commonwealth games which leads to a criminal investigation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12265465

Months later, NOT ONLY are the same guys are elected unopposed to lead India's Olympic organization. India's supreme court rightfully insists the elections be held according to Indian law, not IOC charter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/20600380

India's ban is not about the theft of 1.1 billion (with a B) pounds. Well sort of, they got caught. It is about the IOC's supra-national demand for complete authority being rightly denied.

 

[DirtyWorks]

****stan IOC Ban #2

As a follow-up to the original post on ****stan versus the IOC, the Supreme Court's decision on the matter is interesting reading.

http://www.sports.gov.pk/SportsPolicy/Decision_SupremeCourt_SportsPolicy2005.pdf

I can't copy out of the document, but the Supreme Court makes it clear on page 4 that the ****stan Olympic Committee can operate under the IOC's charter and the IOC is welcome to operate in ****stan. If the IOC wants to use ****stan government money, then ****stan's national sports policy, including the term limits the IOC doesn't want, applies.

IMHO, this is one source of IOC wealth and power, siphoning ANY government's money.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Plus ca change?

IN A.D. 393, the ancient Olympic Games were abolished — they had become too corrupt.

I read it in an article about wrestling being voted out of the Olympics games, but that was not the salient point for me. The corruption and the games being ended - there's history repeating.

We can get a bit riled up about cycling being ejected. I say stuff it - eject the Olympics instead.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Rio Games Funding

All you need to know:

‘The federal government said three years ago that the World Cup will to cost 52 billions Real (Euros 21 billion) and that this money would come entirely from private sources. Today around 15 billion of the 52 billion have been spent. And 97% of that 15 billion is from public funds.’


http://transparencyinsportblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/romario-youve-got-balls-andrew/

We know that the process of awarding contracts is steered through IOC members. What's Pat and Hein's cut of +/- $7 billion Euros of government funding?

 

[RobbieCanuck]

Late to post this, but Jacques Rogge retells the UCI anti-doping message #2, biopassport version, "cycling is clean and at the forefront of anti-doping"

"It would be unfair to penalize the huge majority of clean athletes by banning UCI from the Olympic Games"

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Jacques Rogge is so far out of touch with reality he might as well be in outer space. If he thinks cycling is clean, even today when WE KNOW cycling continues to be plagued by doping, then what must he think about other sports. Does he think they are cleaner than clean?

Rogge is a sad and pathetic head of the IOC. No wonder he beat out **** Pound by getting voted in as head of the IOC. There would have been no misunderstanding where Pound stood on doping and cycling. The corrupt IOC members could not have tolerated a head that would have actually done something about doping.

Pat McQuad has sucked up to Rogge and the IOC in a major way, and Rogge has bought the bull$$!t Cycling is a disaster. The sport has been badly tarnished for the last 25 years and it will take at least 10 to 20 years of the athletes (not the UCI or the IOC) proving to the fans they are clean.

Fans who have followed cycling and the Olympics for a long time, like me, are just plain fed up with the empty rhetoric of the boneheads who run the UCI and the IOC.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Pat McQuad has sucked up to Rogge and the IOC in a major way, and Rogge has bought the bull$$!t

It's more cooperative than that.

Someone dreamed up the bio-passport, and the IOC put holes in it so the federations still had control of doping positives and anti-doping controversy.

The IOC sports get to run the story of "problem athlete" every time there is some doping controversy.

Rogge and the IOC like it that way. There's no "out of touch" about it. The IOC are as responsible for doping as the athletes themselves. The IOC likes the results of doping. They don't like doping controversy.

Not news to many, Hein/cycling was the last IOC sport to agree to use the bio-passport.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Los Angeles Bid for 2024

This is a pretty fair article on a Los Angeles bid.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-la-oly-bid-20130317,0,5836175.story?page=1

Interesting tidbits, the IOC was demanding 60 cents of every broadcast AND advertising revenue dollar.

Under a long-standing deal, the USOC received 20% of the IOC's global sponsorship revenue and 12.75% of the U.S. broadcast rights fee. That left 203 national Olympic committees to share the rest.

Anywhere the Olympics is held, USOC gets paid pretty well.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Verbruggen is IOC Doping Czar

Hein's the doping enforcer for the IOC.

Sometime in the year 2000, The IOC through Hein demands France will not enforce doping laws. Hein personally accepts a letter from the French Sport Minister declaring France will not enforce their doping laws if Paris wins the 2008 Summer bid.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/football/2013/03/20/02003-20130320ARTSPO00687-buffet-a-subi-des-pressions.php

Thanks again to Race Radio, the story was first published 10 years ago: http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/arch...eson-und-pflichtgefuehl,10810590,9902382.html

 

[DirtyWorks]

2012 French Analysis of Anti-Doping Process

Altogether, a grim but accurate analysis of the current state of affairs for doping, in French. There has been some doubt as to whether or not national anti-doping agencies are as weak as I claim. The google-translated report backs me up:

In order to harmonize the provisions of the World Anti give
international federations a prominent role but ambiguous. Indeed, at the expense of NADO and
States, they have a total authority over the terms of the fight against doping when
Competitions are under their auspices: they diligentent controls, choose laboratories
who practice analyzes have exclusive knowledge of results and impose sanctions.
Thus, on French territory, a major sporting event like the tennis tournament
Roland Garros totally escapes the jurisdiction of the AFLD: checks are made ??to
request of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) by a private company and samples
sent to a laboratory located in Canada. Another example, in addition to the Tour de France and the great
classic (Paris-Nice, Dauphine Libere, Paris-Roubaix) more than one hundred cycling grouping
a total of more than a thousand mostly young riders and amateurs, are placed under the aegis of
International Cycling Union (UCI) and beyond, apart from simple and any benefits
service, the French Agency. However, using these competitions and neutralize ways
public and mobilize national police forces.
Certainly, WADA has a right to inspect and can try to modify a decision addressing the
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but its independence vis-à-vis the International Federations
(FI) can not be complete because the joint composition of its decision-making bodies:
Foundation Board and Executive Board

http://www.academie-medecine.fr/Upload/SportDopage.pdf

 

[DirtyWorks]

Mike Plant Poisoning Another Sport

Another American IOC goodfella, Mike Plant, is transitioning from the U.S. Baseball front office to run the U.S. Speed Skating federation.

http://www.usspeedskating.org/node/1093

Speed skating has had a number of problems recently:
http://www.kutv.com/news/features/gephardt/stories/vid_149.shtml

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...20920_1_canadian-skater-simon-cho-arbitration


Mike's efforts to keep USA Cycling a stinking backwater are partially documented. My recollection is he was a co-conspirator with the eventual take-over of USA Cycling by Wiesel.

I have no doubt the Speed Skating Federation will generate less controversy very soon. Too bad little will change for the athletes.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Richard Pound Again

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...rug-cheats--****-Pound.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

In some instances we’re seeing a serious and determined bid by administrators not to rock the boat. There are administrators who decide they can’t afford bad publicity and who see discovering drug cheats as bad, not good. Surely most rational people would agree that they’re conflicted?

That must be the IAAF or Tennis he's talking about....

 

[Briant_Gumble]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...rug-cheats--****-Pound.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

In some instances we’re seeing a serious and determined bid by administrators not to rock the boat. There are administrators who decide they can’t afford bad publicity and who see discovering drug cheats as bad, not good. Surely most rational people would agree that they’re conflicted?

That must be the IAAF or Tennis he's talking about....

Good stuff from D!ck Pound as usual.

I didn't like the caption that accompanied his picture in the daily mail article, made him out to be extra cynical when I find him quite reasonable.

 

[DirtyWorks]

SportAccord

An interesting (to me) article regarding SportAccord mentioning Hein and the person replacing him. Definitely worth a read.

IMHO, the article suggests some changes are coming for the UCI as Rogge leaves and perhaps Hein's influence in the IOC declines.

http://www.3wiresports.com/2013/05/31/what-does-the-sheikh-want/

 

[DirtyWorks]

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/...ong+poised+awarded+Olympic/8522044/story.html

More Belorussian athletes tested positive on old samples means this shot putter is being promoted to third for the 2008 Olympics. At least the athlete's rhetoric is in exactly the right direction.

The IAAF is opening 6 cases on now-positive old samples! Again, the emphasis being Russian and Belorussian athletes.

 

[DirtyWorks]

An older opinion article that seems pretty good to me.

http://o.canada.com/2013/02/13/wrestling-the-odd-one-out-in-olympic-popularity-contest/

 

[DirtyWorks]

2020 Bid Update

Some news regarding the runoff for Spain/Turkey/Tokyo for the 2020 games bid.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL3N0F933920130703?irpc=932

Apparently no one in the IOC asked about the civil unrest in Istanbul. Which, IMHO, is telling of the IOC's indifference to human issues.

Sep Blatter's recent $100 million Real bribe to calm unrest in Brazil is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/s...ident-pledges-100-million-to-brazil.html?_r=0

He's giving back $100 million, the World Cup must generate a billion dollars or more in revenue. All on the back of government-funded infrastructure.