Sentence examples for ioc from from inspiring English sources

By Saturday, August 2, when the IOC held its press conference, Jacques Rogge sought to keep the IOC's skirts clean -- distinguishing himself and the IOC from China and BOCOG.

But the pressure on the IOC from athletes outside Russia has grown in recent weeks.

Back in 1932, another letter to the IOC from the panicked Lake Placid organisers bemoans the number of countries threatening to pull out due to lack of funds in the recession.

In 1911 Count Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from Italy, suggested that Sweden should either include winter sports in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm or stage a separate Winter Olympics in the same year.

'We ask that you publicly disassociate the IOC from these ill-founded, unwarranted and damaging comments which have been made about the sport that we all love and have dedicated ourselves to,' they wrote.

The mere threat of a large-scale boycott might well disincentivize such regimes from trying to host in the first place, and prevent the IOC from awarding them the games if they do bid.

The IOC recovered from the Salt Lake scandal, changing the way the bidding process worked for future Olympics, capping the amount IOC members could receive from potential host cities.

I don't know what more the IOC wants from us because we've got as many Olympic attributes as any other sport.

IOC members from across the world, including Princess Anne, Sepp Blatter and Frankie Fredericks, grapple with the problems inherent in pressing the right voting button at the right time.

He later "vetoed" the results of the 1906 Games and retroactively withdrew IOC status from them, even though he himself had listed them as official IOC Games in his 1906 Olympic Review.

ESPN.com reported that confidential IOC minutes from a meeting before the 2000 Sydney Olympics suggested that the organization had received "threatening letters on the issue from several different Arab Olympic committees".