Talk:International Olympic Committee

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I would like to add more general information at the beginning of this article. I also found specific dates for when the Olympics was re-established that I would like to add. Dgusby (talk) 21:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

In Wikipedia you don't need permission to edit articles, as long as you do it in good faith.--Nitsansh (talk) 18:15, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

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I removed this section because it was biased and poorly worded. I think the criticisms are worth mention but should be thoroughly reworded before they can be added back to the article. Kent Wang 20:12, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Athletes and individual sports federations were also involved in this process after the unaccountable, self-perpetuating nature of the IOC led to sustained criticism (notably by British journalist Andrew Jennings) as an unrepresentative, undemocratic, nepotistic, and unaccountable body, largely run for the benefit of the delegates and having little to do with the ideals expressed in its charter. This exclusive and corrupt nature of the IOC and a small group of individuals who control almost all international sport has earned it the title of "The Club".

"The Club" was created by Horst Dassler, together with Patrick Nally they used the monetary benefit of sports marketing to gain control of federations and national olympic committees to ultimately control the IOC and the olympics.

"By law, all IOC members must retire at the age of 81." Funny... I didn't know NGOs could make laws. --cuiusquemodi 03:55, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

(:- The International Olympic Committee does not consider itself an NGO, but a private government.  :-) Haven't you noticed that they can give the titles of "His Excellency" and "The Honourable" to their chairman and the committee members? More power to them.

Needs clean-up

This article contains links to "Summer Olympic Games" and to "Winter Olympic Games", but not to "Olympic Games" (which should be "Modern Olympic Games". As a result, I can't get directly from here to a discussion of the amateurism conflicts. I think that a clean-up and relinking is in order.

    - -     Robert McClenon

IOC President

I think there should be some information about the IOC President election: when is the next one, what is the duration of a term ? how many terms can a President make , etc ?194.183.196.141 8 July 2005 12:49 (UTC)

IOC President

I added some info from the Charter. Hope this helps.

Anahé

Removal

"By law, all IOC members must retire at the age of 81."

See IOC Charter, 1) it's not by law, but following the IOC Charter and ") it's not 81 but 70 years old

Anahé - 12 October 2005

Olympic Scandals

The scandals and corruption with the IOC has been a major part of the organization for decades, perhaps this needs to be emphasized more in the article?

Thedrewid314 14:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)thedrewid314 UNESCO - International Olympic Committee (IOC) - the United Nations - parts of Luzhkovs circuits for pre-election support of the party in power 16.11.2007 Luzhkov встречлся in Paris with the General director of UNESCO Koitiro Matsuuroj, has signed far-fetched пиарскую a piece of paper the General director of UNESCO on its own behalf and on behalf of the United Nations has murmured about genius Luzhkov.

That is the UNESCO has politically in a pointed manner supported Luzhkov and a party of its authority But the primary goal of a trip of Luzhkov to transfer through Koitiro Matsuuroj  about financial support of employees IOC at their registration of carrying out by the first youthful Olympiad -2010 in Moscow. 

Putin has brought 200 kgs of the black caviar fed in Guatemala to Olympic figures for Olympiad in Sochi. Luzhkov will give each figure IOC on 200 kgs of black caviar, and still weight of any financial informal supports the Decision will be accepted 19.11.2007.. To use for pre-election campaign of sports successes of the party in power of Luzhkov-Putin http://vmbeliaev.livejournal.com/2007/11/18/

Criticism

I agree to Thedrewid314. A "criticism" paragraph could sum up all the scandals around the IOC (e.g. Olympics in Munich) and their more recent controversial decisions regarding the Beijing Olympics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.66.218.252 (talk) 11:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

dance sports the next in line for olympic games!

have you figure it out dancesport-lovers? see it. Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Sp

They may be in line, but there are at least dozen sports ahead of them...--Nitsansh (talk) 18:07, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Controversies

They have been the IOC's last name (instead of Committee) since day 0 (some say even earlier). The first 101 years (until SLC was elected) are littered with so many of them that can justify a seperate article...--Nitsansh (talk) 18:07, 10 October 2011 (UTC)