USOC Brings In Record Total Revenue In '12 WBSC, MLB Consider Condensed Olympic Schedule FILA Looks To MMA For Wrestling Changes USA Synchro Debuts Month-Long Campaign Columnist: IOC President Should Not Be IOC Member Philly "Enthusiastically" Embraces Hosting Games USA Wresting Joins Lobbying Coalition Olympic Boxing Will Allow Pros For '16 Games USATF CEO Contract Extended Through '18 Mike Plant Takes U.S. Speedskating Reins
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London Hauling: USOC Brings In Record $337.4M In Total Revenue Last Year
Published May 16, 2013 by Tripp MickleIncreased broadcast rights fees for the London Games drove the USOC's total revenue to a record $337.4M last year, according to tax filings the organization released yesterday. The total marks a 20% increase from the $280.6M in revenue the USOC collected in ‘08, the last time a Summer Games was held. The organization receives 12.75% of TV rights revenue the IOC collects from NBC and the network’s payment jumped from $893M for the ‘08 Beijing Games to $1.2B for London. As a result, the USOC’s ...
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WBSC, MLB Consider Condensed Olympic Schedule, Shortening Games
Published May 16, 2013...d Baseball Classic in MLB's mind has replaced the Olympics because the Olympics come in the summer. ...Whiteside notes the absence of MLB players in the Olympics was "a major factor in the IOC's decision to drop...
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FILA Plans MMA-Influenced Changes To Wrestling In Effort To Keep Sport In Olympics
Published May 15, 2013...g a makeover in a push to keep their sport in the Olympics" by "taking tips from the mixed martial arts worl... ...pularity” amid the threat of elimination from the Olympics (AP, 5/14).
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USA Synchro Debuts "Synchro De Mayo" Campaign To Increase Exposure, Participation
Published May 03, 2013In an effort to pull synchronized swimming "from the shower-drain of sports obscurity," the sport's revamped NGB has "declared May ‘Synchro de Mayo,’ a push to expose newcomers to the sport through performances and free lessons,” according to Rachel Bachman of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. USA Synchro Exec Dir Julie Swarts said that the “hope is that expanded membership in USA Synchro will attract corporate sponsorship and build the U.S. team.” While other nations “fund their synchronized swimmers...
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Columnist: IOC President Should Come From Wide Pool, Not Be IOC Member
Published April 29, 2013After IOC President Jacques Rogge last week said that his successors in the office "no longer should be volunteers but paid employees," all future IOC presidents "must be selected from a wide pool of candidates that cannot include any past or present IOC members," according to Philip Hersh of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Rogge’s "valid reasons for wanting a paid president included having 'independent people.'" Hersh asks, "How independent could a person be after having been part of a self-selected IO...
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Digital media outlets account for 25% of U.S. credentials for Sochi Games
Published April 29, 2013 by Tripp Mickle...national publications putting an emphasis on the Olympics,” Sandusky said.
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USOC back to one hospitality spot
Published April 29, 2013 by Tripp Mickle...ouse in Vancouver because it was a North American Olympics, and it opted to have a hospitality center in Van... ...lt Lake City, and it has grown in each subsequent Olympics. ...its USA House in Vancouver six months before the Olympics.
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Philly Mayor: City "Enthusiastically" Embracing Potentially Hosting '24 Olympic Games
Published April 23, 2013...racing the prospect of bidding on and hosting the Olympics and Paralympics in 2024,” according to Lubrano &...
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USA Wrestling Joins Other Nations In "Save Olympic Wrestling Coalition," Lobbying IOC
Published April 22, 2013USA Wrestling on Saturday in Las Vegas announced that it was "participating in the 'Save Olympic Wrestling Coalition,' which will work primarily behind the scenes" to convince the IOC to "reverse its decision in February to drop the sport from the games beginning in 2020," according to Steve Carp of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. USA Wrestling Exec Dir Rich Bender said, “There’s a lot that has to be done, and there isn’t much time in which to do it.” Carp noted the coalition, which includes Ru...
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Sochi ‘spectator’s pass’ creates questions, concerns
Published April 15, 2013 by Tripp MickleOrganizers of the Sochi Olympics plan to require ticket holders to have a “spectat... ...than 1 million tickets are typically sold for an Olympics. ...ponsors brings more than 1,500 guests to a Winter Olympics. ...Beijing organizers developed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Nike takes another step onto the ice, nears deal with skater
Published April 15, 2013 by Tripp MickleNike will use its deal with Gracie Gold to promote its women’s workout apparel. Photo by: GETTY IMAGES Nike is close to signing U.S. figure skater and Olympic hopeful Gracie Gold. Gold, 17, will be the company’s second figure skater. Nike signed Sochi 2014 hopeful Ashley Wagner, a 21-year-old from Virginia, earlier this year, and it plans to feature both athletes in public relations and marketin...
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NBC gathers Olympic athletes for Sochi promo
Published April 15, 2013 by Tripp MickleA Winter Olympics has a quarter as many sports and athletes as its... ...dcaster and the USOC have undertaken for a Winter Olympics, and it’s comparable in size and scope to the Wes... “The Olympics are unlike other sports that are result oriented,... ...ets the athletes in front of people who watch the Olympics for the stories behind it. It drives viewership i...
