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Flawed Strategy, Mistakes Jeopardizing Tokyo's Bid To Host 2020 Olympics05 / 22 / 13With just over three months until the IOC votes on the 2020 Olympic host city, the bid "seems adrift and still lacking a cogent message about why Tokyo should host the biggest global sporting event," according to Jack Gallagher of the JAPAN TIMES. Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose’s recent "unfortunate c... |
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G4S CEO Stays, Two Lieutenants Go
Security firm G4S CEO Nick Buckles has "survived calls for him to resign following the company's failure to provide enough guards to secure" the London Games, according to Rupert Neate of the London GUARDIAN. G4S said on Friday that it would keep Buckles in the top job despite his acknowledgement to ...
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IOC Praises '14 Youth Olympics Progress
The IOC Coordination Commission for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games concluded its third visit to the Chinese city today, with the commission members praising the strong progress made across all areas of the organization with just less than two years to go until the second edition of the summer ...
Britain's Olympic Sports Pooling Rights
Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic sports are "pooling their commercial rights into an independent company" that will market them collectively, hoping to make it easier for potential sponsors to buy into the post-games feelgood factor, according to Roger Blitz of the FINANCIAL TIMES. About 80 sp ...
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G4S Chiefs Await Olympics Review
Execs from security firm G4S will "come under pressure" on Thursday when the board meets to discuss its failure to provide the 10,400 guards commissioned for the London Games, according to Gill Plimmer of the FINANCIAL TIMES. G4S is due to discuss a review of the "high-profile failure," commissioned ...
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Sochi Stands To Be The Best
There is a consensus among those doing preliminary site inspections that the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games "are shaping up to be spectacular," according to Scott Burnside of ESPN.com. U.S. men's hockey GM Brian Burke was in Sochi last spring and told ESPN.com he thinks the 2014 Games could be "the ...
Olympic Notes
The Bulgarian Ministry of Sports and Youth is "mulling serious changes" in the way sports are financed in the country after a London Games performance "largely deemed a failure." Among the changes would be decreasing the funding for the federations for Olympic training by BGN 6-7M ($4-$4.6M) in '13 ...
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Sochi 2014 Announces Slogan
Organizers of the '14 Sochi Games celebrated the 500-days-out mark yesterday by unveiling the event's official slogan: "Hot.Cool.Yours." SOCOG President & CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said that the slogan is "aimed to bring more foreigners to Sochi and also make Russians proud." He noted that ...
British Volunteers To Get Olympic Money
Volunteering groups from the London Games are set to receive millions of dollars from the Big Lottery Fund, according to Jasper Copping of the London TELEGRAPH. The community organization is set to "receive a share of the proceeds" worth up to £40M ($65M) when the former athletes' apartments i ...
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Rio Employees Fired For Stealing
The Organizing Committee of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games "fired 10 employees for downloading data without permission from computers at the London Games," according to Pedro Fonseca of REUTERS. On Friday, a statement by the committee said that the employees were working at LOCOG, "as part of the partne ...
IOC And IOA On Collision Course
The Indian Olympic Association is objecting to the IOC's "dictate" that it should "hold its election due next month under the supervision of the world body," according to the PTI. The IOC had written two letters stating that "the election process of the IOA would have to be held in strict compliance ...
