Talk:International Olympic Committee
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IOC is also short for "International Organized Crime". Please consider this meanwhile redirecting IOC only to the explanation of the International Olympic Committee. I'm a newbee here and not able to reorganize a redirection. Perhaps anyone else could do it? If not: I'm gonna correct this later on.
Done already! It's easy to work here! See You!
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.
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] IOC President
I added some info from the Charter. Hope this helps.
Anahé
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
