International Olympic Committee (IOC)
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Glasgow 2018 has revealed its ‘Live City’ festivity plans for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) should it win its bid to host the event.
Business

International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate Sergey Bubka has teamed-up with UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) to develop a "route map" for the future of sport and its relationship with governments, business, education and society.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has met with the sport’s European commissioner Androulla Vassiliou to discuss the development of sport in the region.

Athletics
Stadia

Officials for Rio de Janeiro’s athletics stadium for the 2016 Olympics have revealed that its roof will have to be rebuilt, with work not expected to finish a year before the Games.
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Youth Olympic Games bidders Buenos Aires has defended its financial status, following concerns published in the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s evaluation report last week.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate Thomas Bach has said today that he would like to launch a global Olympic TV channel should he be elected.
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The deadline for members to submit candidacy for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential elections has passed.
Events

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today opened the bidding process for the 2022 winter Olympics and the 2020 winter Youth Olympics.
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Oslo has announced its intention to bid for the 2022 winter Olympics, following a city council decision made yesterday.
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From its inception and first edition in Singapore in 2010, the Youth Olympic Games is now one of the most prestigious multi-sport games properties. However, the process of deciding who will stage the next editions is still designed to present as few barriers as possible to aspiring YOG hosts. Bidding cities are prevented from spending on advertising and there are restrictions on the number of new venues that can be included in any proposal.
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Bid leader and Colombian minister of sport, Andres Botero Phiillipsbourne, shows some powerful images and explains why bidding host Medellin is the right fit for the 2018 Youth Olympics.
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Buenos Aires has fallen behind Glasgow and Medellin in its bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympics, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s evaluation commission reports funding concerns.
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South African president Jacob Zuma said today that his country would be "very happy" if it became the first African nation to host the Olympics, with the 2024 Games in sight.

Wrestling
Business

International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate, Denis Oswald, has said that the Olympic programme could solve its problems with a more “creative approach” to choosing participating sports.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential candidate Denis Oswald has today presented his manifesto from Lausanne.

Wrestling
Business

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has defended the process for voting sports on and off the Olympic programme, following criticism of wrestling’s removal and quick return as a candidate for inclusion in the 2020 Games.
Business

Leading sports officials have questioned the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s process of including and excluding sports from the Olympic fold.
Business

Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge that wrestling is a “fundamental” sport, following its shortlisting to return to the Olympic fold.