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☆ Olympics-IOC Has Full Confidence in Paris 2024 Olympics Security Plans
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

(Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday said it was confident French authorities would keep the Paris 2024 Olympics safe with an extensive security plan. The opening ceremony is considered a major security challenge by itself with more than 45,000 security staff deployed on that day. French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that France was prepared to move the opening ceremony to another location should the security situation require it. With a security budget of 320 million euros ($348.42 million), France will be deploying some 35,000 security staff for the days after the opening ceremony, with many competitions and events held in the centre of the city. "This confidence was built on a report received in December (from French authorities) ... on the measures to be taken during the Games," said Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Mark Adams, Christophe Dubi, Dubi, Karolos Grohmann, Ken Ferris Organizations: Reuters, Olympic Committee, Games, IOC, Olympic Locations: Paris, France, Israel, South Korea's

☆ I.O.C. Says It Was Target of Elaborate ‘Fake News’ Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Tariq Panja | More About Tariq Panja | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The International Olympic Committee issued an unusual statement on Thursday saying it had been targeted by “fake news posts” that it said contained “defamatory content, a fake narrative and false information.” The elaborate campaign included manufactured quotations from I.O.C. The film remains visible on other platforms, however, including the encrypted messaging and content platform Telegram. It was a separate post on Telegram that appears to have prompted the Olympic committee to issue its statement on Thursday. Text accompanying the fake news report said the I.O.C. included links to its website and all of its official social media channels in its statement on Thursday, and requested that news media members contact it to confirm the authenticity of information circulating about the organization on social media.

Persons: Tom Cruise, Israel —, Mark Adams, Thomas Bach, ” Mr, Bach, “ Organizations: Olympic, YouTube, Telegram, Olympic Committee, State Department, Palestinian Locations: Israel, Palestine, Paris, Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Iran, China, India, Munich

☆ IOC members call on Bach to stay on past 2025
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach gestures as he speaks during a news conference, ahead of the 141st IOC Session, in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2023. Elected in 2013, Bach is due to step down in 2025 in line with current Olympic Charter rules, following a first eight-year term and a second four-year one. Sunday's open declaration by IOC members followed speculation in recent months that Bach could potentially continue as president of the one of the most powerful bodies in global sports. Several other members also called on Bach to stay on and asked for a Charter change. Being a core author of this Olympic Charter drives me to be more loyal to this Olympic Charter," Bach said.

Persons: Thomas Bach, Niharika Kulkarni, Bach, Sunday's, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Luis Mejia Oviedo, Mark Adams, Adams, Karolos Grohmann, Clarence Fernandez, Hugh Lawson, Christian Organizations: Olympic Committee, 141st IOC, REUTERS, Rights, IOC, Olympic, Olympics Games, Thomson Locations: Mumbai, India, Rights MUMBAI, German, Paris, Sochi, Tokyo, Ukraine

The International Olympic Committee's executive board imposed the suspension on the Russian Olympic Committee for a breach of the Olympic Charter — a book of rules and principles for international sports bodies — by incorporating sports councils in four regions in eastern Ukraine. Russian Olympic officials provoked the dispute last week by accepting the councils in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia as its members. Those vetting processes by different sports will continue despite the IOC suspension imposed Thursday, which does not affect Belarus. Adams said the Russian Olympic Committee had been informed of its suspension before the IOC announced it publicly. The Russian Olympic Committee can challenge the IOC decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Persons: Thomas Bach, Bach, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mark Adams, Adams Organizations: GENEVA, —, IOC, Olympic, Russian Olympic Committee, Russian Olympic, International Olympic, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Paris Games, UEFA, European Championship, ROC, Sport, “ ROC, Paris Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Mumbai, India, “, Russian, Belarus, Switzerland, Lausanne, paris

☆ 2030 Winter Games 'too soon' for Japan's Sapporo - IOC
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Sudipto Ganguly | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MUMBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Japan's Sapporo withdrew its bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics because the Games were "too soon" for the city, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday. The mayor of Sapporo said on Wednesday that the northern Japanese city will consider hosting the Winter Olympics in 2034 or later after the fallout from the bribery and bid-rigging scandals linked to the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. It's non-committal on both sides," IOC spokesman Mark Adams told a press conference after the opening day of its executive board meeting in Mumbai. But they have obviously made it clear that 2030 is too soon for them." Venues vying to hold the 2030 Games include Salt Lake City in the United States, Sweden, Switzerland and France.

Persons: Mark Adams, Sudipto Ganguly, Ken Ferris Organizations: Japan's Sapporo, International Olympic, Japanese Olympic Committee, Tokyo Games, Thomson Locations: MUMBAI, Sapporo, Tokyo, Mumbai, Salt Lake City, United States, Sweden, Switzerland, France

☆ Russian Olympic Committee handed immediate ban says IOC
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Sudipto Ganguly | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during an Executive Board Meeting, ahead of the 141st IOC Session, in Mumbai, India, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni Acquire Licensing RightsMUMBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Thursday for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said. "... it violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine, as recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in accordance with the Olympic Charter." While Ukraine welcomed the move, the Russian Olympic Committee called it counter-productive. The IOC had not sanctioned the Russian or Belarusian Olympic Committee or Russian IOC members since Moscow's 2022 invasion but did ban athletes from those countries in the first few months after what Moscow calls a 'special military operation'.

Persons: Thomas Bach, Niharika Kulkarni, Thursday's, Mark Adams, Andriy Yermak, Sudipto Ganguly, Karolos, Gabrielle Tetrault, Farber, Yuliia, Karolos Grohmann, Ken Ferris Organizations: Olympic, 141st IOC, REUTERS, Rights, Russian Olympic, International Olympic Committee, IOC, Russian Olympic Committee, National Olympic Committee, Presidential, Belarusian Olympic Committee, Moscow, Thomson Locations: Mumbai, India, Rights MUMBAI, Ukraine, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, ROC, Gdansk

☆ Gas Prices Fall Below Last Year’s Average
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Hardika Singh | David Uberti | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When gasoline prices shot upward earlier this year, Mark Adams tapped the brakes on his hobby of exploring ghost towns and other historic sites across Oregon and sharing the imagery on YouTube. Now, he is back. A medical-device technician by day, Mr. Adams bought a more fuel-efficient car and has since watched his weekly gas bill fall from as high as $75 to about $30. It is enough of a difference that the 57-year-old has begun charting out which abandoned structures he is going to visit next.

☆ Now is not the time to lift Russia, Belarus sanctions-IOC
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Nelson Acosta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no immediate plans to lift sanctions on Russia and Belarus even though the qualifying process for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics goes into full swing next year, the Olympic body said on Monday. The IOC issued guidance to sports governing bodies in February to remove from competition athletes from Russia and Belarus, which Moscow used as a key staging area for the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine that Russia calls a 'special operation'. While events that count towards qualification in some sports for the Paris Olympics have already been held, most sports will stage their continental or global qualification events in the coming 18 months. I would not want to comment on the state of qualification of athletes for Paris." While the IOC's position could change in the future, some federations have been clear that the only way to reinstate Russia and Belarus in their sport would be the removal of Russian troops from Ukraine.

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