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The values represented by the IOC are canonical, which perhaps explains why the Olympic partnership news is handed down like tablets of stone. So, when the IOC heralds a new joint category, it’s big ‘news’.
Shaun Whatling - 27 Jun 2019
The IOC's new joint partner category
Many sports are waiting in the wings, muttering about future bids or vaguely hoping that the hand of Bach will somehow reach down from the clouds and pluck them from non-Olympic obscurity
Callum Murray - 25 Feb 2019
What is a place in the Olympic Games worth?
A millionaire Olympian is, on the whole, an oxymoron, while a millionaire in soccer, the ‘people’s’ game, is just the soccer billionaire’s poor relation
Callum Murray - 20 Nov 2018
Poor Olympic Games, poor IOC
The Youth Olympic Games enable cities to move from an event-led approach, where the event is used as an ‘imposed’ stimulus, to an event-themed approach, where the event is used as a uniting theme for development and regeneration
Ian Logan - 25 May 2018
Why host the Youth Olympic Games?
Greenpeace has labelled Samsung a hypocrite because, as a TOP Olympic sponsor, and a Sustainability Partner of PyeongChang 2018, Samsung only sources 1 per cent of its energy from renewable sources
Shaun Whatling - 09 Feb 2018
Symbolic legacy or Virtual Reality?
Russian athletes will not have to discharge the impossible burden of demonstrating that they have not doped. As a result, most would-be participants will compete, and the IOC chief Thomas Bach has already said as much
Stephen Hornsby - 14 Dec 2017
Russian doping ban is futile
It’s meaningless, and a red herring in the argument, to talk about ‘clean’ Russian athletes, when the system that was supposed to distinguish whether or not they were ‘clean’ was corrupted
Callum Murray - 30 Nov 2017
Doping: the collective responsibility fallacy
By continuing to focus funding of elite sport on Olympic success, have medals become the end itself, rather than a means to an end?
David Murray - 27 Jul 2017
The price of Olympic medals
All the talk is of which city will host which games - and at what price? There is surely a lot of water still to pass under the bridge before that tripartite agreement is announced
Callum Murray - 12 Jul 2017
The price of a double Olympic award
Media and public concern about obesity have shone a bright spotlight on McDonald’s, making corporate comms and public affairs a higher order need in many markets than pro-active sales promotion
Shaun Whatling - 23 Jun 2017
The IOC, McDonald's and fake news
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