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27 August 2010
Last Sunday Ali Karimi - aka Asia's Maradona – was fired from the Tehran team Steel Azin FC for not fasting during Ramadan. Karimi is no ‘nobody’ in Iran. He is the second most merited on the national team, third on the top...
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16 August 2010
Richard Pound, member of the IOC and the only IOC-internal critic of the Youth Olympic Games, waived the trip to Singapore, where the first Youth Olympic Games started this weekend.
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03 August 2010
The Somali National Olympic committee on Saturday disclosed that the war-ravaged country will participate in the upcoming world youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the first ever such competition for youths organized by the IOC.
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28 July 2010
The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has left its clear mark on David Cameron's visit to Washington. The biggest oil disaster of our time overshadows the war in Afghanistan and the financial crisis that the two...
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08 December 2009
Last month an American journalist was detained and questioned at length by Canadian border guards who wanted to know if she was planning to do any public speaking on the 2010 Winter Olympics. The journalist was shocked, but the...
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01 December 2009
A petition urging Olympic sponsors to take a stand against women discrimination continues the fight for inclusion of a women’s ski jump event on the programme at the Vancouver 2010 Games.
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20 November 2009
When the torch passes through Canada's aboriginal communities it won't shed any light on the poverty that keeps their children from the Olympic dream
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16 November 2009
A new book by Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky alleges that former IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a member of the Soviet Union’s infamous spy network, the KGB. German journalist Jens Weinreich, an expert in sports...
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13 November 2009
The 14 female ski jumpers fighting to be allowed to compete at the Winter Games 2010 next February in Vancouver went to court yesterday to continue their battle.
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29 October 2009
Unbalanced budgets and a lack of sponsors have had the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee fearing for the success of the Vancouver Games, but a 20 million dollar guarantee from the IOC is said to have secured the 2010 Winter...
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