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Korean Ministry backs PyeongChang potential with $1m investment -
22-07-2010 (16:07)
PyeongChang: bright future ahead for the region
Athletics rising star Christophe Lemaitre sprints for Annecy 2018 -
20-07-2010 (03:07)
Christophe Lemaitre: athletics new golden runner commits to his native Annecy / Image: Annecy 2018LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
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Bogner confident that Munich’s Winter Games bid is safely on-track -
17-07-2010 (00:07)
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
LONDON/MUNICH, Jul 17: Willy Bogner has rejected suggestions of a crisis over Munich’s 2018 Winter Olympics bid. Bogner, bid ceo, was responding to media questions after claims of a disagreement over proposals for the involvement of nearby Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The unique feature of the Munich bid is that, if it beat off competition from Annecy and PyeongChang when the IOC votes next July it would be the first city to have hosted both summer and winter Games. But that involves staging some ice events at Konigsee as well as Alpine events in Garmisch.
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Bogner confident that Munich’s Winter Games bid for 2018 is safely on-track -
17-07-2010 (00:07)
Willy Bogner: trying to take Munich's bid forward / lake images
Bogner confident that Munich’s Winter Games bid for 2018 is safely on course -
17-07-2010 (00:07)
Willy Bogner: trying to take Munich's bid forward / lake images
IOC signs new sponsor as U.S. television deal delayed (Reuters) -
16-07-2010 (21:08)
By Julian Linden
NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) signed a new global sponsor Friday but a fragile economic climate has delayed the start of negotiations for the U.S. television rights for the 2014 and 2016 Games.
IOC president Jacques Rogge told Reuters in an interview that the negotiations could be put off until after the 2012 Olympics in London because of the uncertainty of the American economy.
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Rogge to discuss possible bid with Zuma -
23-06-2010 (16:59)
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—IOC president Jacques Rogge will discuss the possibility of a South African bid for the Olympics when he meets with the country’s president next month.
Rogge said Wednesday he will raise the issue when he holds talks with Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on the weekend of the July 11 World Cup final.
South Africa is the first African country to host the soccer showcase. Based on the success of the tournament, South Africa could try to become the first nation on the continent to stage the Olympics.
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Rogge to discuss possible Olympic bid with Zuma (PA SportsTicker) -
23-06-2010 (16:55)
By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer
LAUSANNE, Switzerland(AP)—IOC president Jacques Rogge will discuss the possibility of a South African bid for the Olympics when he meets with the country’s president next month.
Rogge said Wednesday he will raise the issue when he holds talks with Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on the weekend of the July 11 World Cup final.
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Gold medallist Heather Moyse struggles with return to top-level rugby -
18-06-2010 (18:01)
VANCOUVER ' Heather Moyse is discovering it's not that easy to shift seamlessly from the elite level of one sport to another without hitting some transitional speed bumps along the way.
The gold medallist in the two-women bobsleigh in the February Winter Olympics, the 31-year-old is attempting to restart the promising rugby career she left behind two years ago to chase her dream of gold at the Vancouver Games.
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To Russia, with the voice of experience -
09-06-2010 (12:39)
Jeff Lee, The Sun's Olympic Reporter, is in Sochi, Russia this week for the official debriefing of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. That's where John Furlong and others will pass on to the International Olympic Committee and Sochi 2014 organizers the lessons they learned while organizing the Vancouver 2010 Games.
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