Jacques Rogge News, Pictures & Buzz

Twelve most valuable £2 coins in circulation - and how much they're each worth  Mirror Online

The 2008 Olympics was a soft power victory for Beijing. A successful Games in 2022 could validate its authoritarian system  CNN

China’s Olympian atrocity | Opinion  lehighvalleylive.com

China's Olympian Atrocity  RealClearPolitics

Tokyo Olympics: Thomas Bach to run unopposed for IOC president in 2021  Sky Sports

Thomas Bach to seek second term as president of International Olympic Committee  Scroll.in

Leading New Zealand administrator Susie Simcock mourned for 'enduring support' for sport  Stuff.co.nz

LANE ONE: Was Juan Antonio Samaranch, the man who made the IOC modern, its greatest president?  The Sports Examiner

A Bribery Scandal Hits the ‘2020’ Tokyo Olympics  The Nation

My favourite game: Usain Bolt wins Olympic 200m gold at Beijing 2008 | Andy Bull  The Guardian

My favourite game: Usain Bolt wins Olympic 200m gold at Beijing 2008 | Andy Bull  The Guardian

The Olympics are political. The IOC ban denies reality — and athletes their voice.  NBC News

The Daily 202: Bipartisan backlash to the NBA’s appeasement of China shows Congress still supports human rights  The Washington Post

The Paralympic Order  International Paralympic Committee

Boris Johnson’s crafty use of the theatre of sport eased his rise to the top  The Irish Times

Jacques Rogge's Passion for Hockey  Around the Rings

Articles Archive  Around the Rings

IFBB President Santonja confident organisation on course for IOC recognition  Insidethegames.biz

“More than I could dream” – Jacques Rogge on the Youth Olympic Games - Olympic News  Olympics

Un Yong Kim, 86, Disgraced IOC Power Broker  Around the Rings

Bernardo1130: @WoodfordinDK It wasn’t Furl&^g. It was former IOC President Jacques Rogge. He smugly resp&^ded “Madame, the Ol… https://t.co/UtyFrvLI4L

CoZza_86: RT @CoZza_86: The Internati#^al Olympic Committee at 125 Date: 23 Jun 2019 #^ the 125th anniversary of the creati#^ of the IOC, the Olympic…

President of the IOC.

...Chinese President Hu Jintao? In the "Fundamental Principles of Olympism" as can be read on the official Olympic website, it states: 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. 2. The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity." How can the IOC President bear to sit next to a man like that who is responsible for atrocities in Tibet and re: Falun Gong? Allowing Heads of State who've got blood on their hands to attend the opening ceremony, like George W. Bush, his father & ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard. What a farce and a joke. It makes a mockery of the Olympic Charter IMO. Agree???