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Daley Going To Turkey For Olympic Meeting

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.18.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley has traveled the world to promote Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. He's about to pile up even more frequent-flier mile...

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2016 Olympics Panel Picks Chicago For First Stop

Chicago Tribune | Philip Hersh | Posted 10.21.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago will be the first city visited by the International Olympic Committee's 2016 Summer Games evaluation commission next year, according to a Chic...

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IOC To Launch Investigation Into Ages Of Chinese Gymnasts

AP | Posted 08.21.2008 | Entertainment

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The International Olympic Committee will investigate whether the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the gold medal had underage athletes, saying...

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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: The Olympics, the Agony of the Seat

Jeffrey Jena | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

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Jeffrey Jena

I am trying very hard to put my backside in front of the television to root home our Olympic team, but in direct contrast to the old saw, my flesh is willing but my spirit is weak.

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Scandal of the Ages: Documents Reveal Underage Chinese Gymnast

David Flumenbaum | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home

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David Flumenbaum

Not only was He Kexin, the Chinese gymnast in question, born in 1994 and ineligible to compete in the Olympics, but Chinese officials, over the last few weeks, have tried to cover it all up.

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East Teaches West

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

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Dr. Susan Corso

Can you even imagine 2008 Americans doing anything all at once? In harmony, in agreement, in service to the greater good? I can't. Not in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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How to Read the Great Olympics Internet Censorship Drama

Monroe Price | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

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Monroe Price

The IOC has known that China's website policies would be a problem all along and informally sought to manage change.

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General Potemkin's Olympic Village

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media

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Leslie Harris

Any casual China watcher understands that media control stands at the heart of the governments' grip on power. The real surprise is that anyone believed that China would honor this commitment at the end of the day.

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Should Saudi Arabia be Banned from the Olympics?

David Wallechinsky | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

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David Wallechinsky

There are two countries, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have consistently prevented women from competing in the Olympics.

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Olympic Ambush Watch: Athletes, Tattoos, T-Shirts and Amnesty International

Monroe Price | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

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Monroe Price

If athletes genuinely want to express their opinion, that's fine. But let's not forget, there is also the right not to express an opinion. Athletes should feel no moral obligation to speak out.

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Journalism's "Olympic Truce" with China?

Monroe Price | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media

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Monroe Price

Now, possibly it's mutual pullback time. The earthquake helps for China's repositioning of the temperature of its newspaper reporting.

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Why Flunk the International Olympic Committee?

Mia Farrow | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

The crisis in Darfur is a genocide being underwritten by the IOC's chosen Olympic host. What have they done to end the first genocide of the 21st century? Nothing.

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Olympics In "Crisis," Says Olympics Committee President

AP | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

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Crisis. Disarray. Sadness. Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International O...

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Why China's Olympics is Good for Tibet, Darfur, and Puppies and Kittens

Rebecca Novick | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Rebecca Novick

Now, like a scenario dreamed up by Human Rights Inc., the Olympic torch is being carried across the continents of the globe, looking less like a glowing beacon of the human spirit than a symbol of violence and repression.

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Where Do Obama And Clinton Stand On China?

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.

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International Olympic Committee Warns Beijing Air Is "A Possible Risk"

Washington Post | Amy Shipley | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

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The International Olympic Committee acknowledged for the first time today that air pollution could be harmful for athletes at this summer's Olympics i...

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Marion Jones Formally Stripped Of Her Olympic Medals, Name Wiped From Record Books

AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 12.12.2007 | Home

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The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she wa...

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