Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "International Olympic Committee" produced 20 items.
| 1. Bosman is still proving a difficult opponent | June 3, 2010 |
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Contract disputes still a huge part of football. Fifteen years after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that professional football players were free to leave their... |
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| 2. Amnesty says situation in China is declining | July 29, 2008 |
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EU has yet to respond to watchdog's claim says that China's human-rights record has worsened in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
The Chinese authorities have rejected a... | |
| 3. There is more to sport than just politics | April 9, 2008 |
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The Greeks invented the Olympic Games almost 3,000 years ago and even then the Olympic ideal wasn't exactly what it said on the tin. The marathon, for example, seems to have... | |
| 4. Restoring the ekecheiria... | April 3, 2008 |
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The Fundamental Principles of the Olympic Charter are fine stuff: “...to place sport, everywhere, at the service of the harmonious development of man...establishment of a... | |
| 5. Taking on the dopes who spoil sport | September 20, 2007 |
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Doping is threatening the reputation and commercial viability of some of the EU's most popular sports. Lucy Shackleton reports on efforts to wipe out drug use. This year's... | |
| 6. ‘At the mercy of the courts' | September 20, 2007 |
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A series of major rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) have made it one of the most important institutions for sport in the EU. William Gaillard of UEFA, European... | |
| 7. EU in ‘coconut moment' as Blair and Brown plant ideas | June 30, 2005 |
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I blame Barcelona. The Catalan city's successful staging of the Olympic Games in 1992 set an unfortunate precedent, creating false expectations that being an Olympic host... | |
| 8. The ‘beautiful game' settles for a draw in constitution | June 24, 2004 |
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IT WAS September 2000 and yet another pivotal moment at the United Nations. Romano Prodi was sitting next to Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder at the millennium summit.... | |
| 9. Greeks request Europol terror threat analysis for Olympics | May 6, 2004 |
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EUROPOL has been asked to carry out an analysis of the threat which terrorists pose to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The request – made to the Union's police agency by... | |
| 10. Funding for doping agency put on hold | January 4, 2001 |
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SPORTS Commissioner Viviane Reding has delayed a proposal to inject Union cash into the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) until a dispute over how much say the EU will have in... | |
| 11. Reding promotes sports to EU policy premier league | November 25, 1999 |
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CULTURE Commissioner Viviane Reding will unveil plans next week to bring European sport out of the EU policy backwaters. In a wide-ranging report to be presented to Union... | |
| 12. Reding seeks changes to doping rules | October 28, 1999 |
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SPORTS Commissioner Viviane Reding is set to issue a final set of demands to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the rules which should govern a planned new body to... | |
| 13. Commission ready to join new doping forum | July 29, 1999 |
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EUROPEAN Commission officials say they are close to a deal which would seal the EU's involvement in a new watchdog to police doping in sport. The institution is on the verge... | |
| 14. EU ultimatum over new sports doping watchdog | April 22, 1999 |
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GERMANY is set to issue a final warning to the organisers of the Olympic Games to act on EU concerns about a new body being set up to police doping, or risk losing Union... | |
| 15. Bonn bids to crack down on doping in EU sports | January 21, 1999 |
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GERMANY has unveiled plans for new EU-wide rules to crack down on the use of performance-enhancing drugs amid growing concern that the problem is tarnishing the image of... | |
| 16. Sports stars highlight benefits to EU regions | September 4, 1997 |
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THE importance of sport in the development of Europe's regions will come under the spotlight at a forum later this month attended by leading sports personalities. Former... | |
| 17. LETTERS | April 17, 1997 |
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From Claudia Roth MEPRome, Athens and Stockholm are misguided in their campaigns to host the 2004 Olympic Games. All three cities are unsuitable candidates since the... | |
| 18. MEPs champion equal rights at Games | July 18, 1996 |
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SOME of the most memorable moments in the history of the Olympic Games have been provided by female competitors. The youthful exuberance of the former Soviet gymnast Olga... | |
| 19. ESC's trump card | May 30, 1996 |
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CARLOS Ferrer has a canny knack of being able to gain access to people who matter. As president of one of the EU's least prominent institutions, it is a useful trick. In the... | |
