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PLAY THE GAME AT THE OLYMPIC CONGRESS About the IOC meetings News from the IOC meetings Comments Themes CALL FOR ACTION AGAINST ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION IN SPORT Open letter to the President of the IOC, Jacques Rogge and IOC members. Read and join the call here FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER News from around the web News and views selected by staff at Play the Game. Click the title to read a summary and follow the link to read the story • Sports Movement agrees on unified strategy to tackle irregular betting - Under the leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the sports movement today agreed... • Time for IOC to learn from new medias that appeals to young people - Communications guru Martin Sorrell advised global sports leaders at the IOC Congress in Copenhagen... • Fidel Castro congratulates Brazil with the election of host for 2016 Summer Olympics - Rio’s Olympics Win Is ‘Victory of Third World,’ Castro says. Source: Bloomberg.com • Brazil: Moving from second to first rate country - After having been chosen as host for the 2016 Summer Olympics Brazil will transform sporting... • IOC: McDonald's will not run from sponsor contract - The International Olympic Committee's marketing boss believes Chicago's rejection by... Click here for more news		What actually went on at the IOC meetings, that took place in Copenhagen the first nine days of October 2009?  What did the delegates think, how did the media work, what kind of political games were played in the corridors of Bella Center and what did all the thousands of people involved with sport, not present at the meetings think? These are questions Play the Game looked into on this site during the IOC meetings. Play the Game encourages its followers to send us articles and posts related to the IOC meetings. To post a comment, please go to our comment section. If you wish to make your own contribution, you can do so by mailing Stine Alvad at stine@playthegame.     Latest news from the IOC summit Comment: Rogge clears the way for further reform 10 October 2009 The next four years will show to which extent Rogge will succeed in becoming the great reformer of the Olympic movement that he was expected to when he took office in 2001. IOC’s President Rogge takes controversial questions from the press at closing of IOC Session 09 October 2009 President Jacques Rogge took questions from the press at the closing of the IOC Session in Copenhagen. Two new Olympic sports elected despite controversy 09 October 2009 Despite discussions of whether the process of election of the new Olympic sports have been sufficiently transparent, rugby and golf were elected as the two newcomers to join the existing 26 Olympic sports by 2016. Click here for more news.... Bookmark this Page  Twitter          Delicous    Facebook    Stumbleupon    More    Technorati    Digg          Reddit         Buzz         Email

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