Tag: IOC

  • 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo – The Safe Choice

    2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo – The Safe Choice

    By being chosen as the host for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo receive the honor of hosting the competition for a second time (the first was in 1964), leaving behind Madrid and Istanbul, who didn’t really make enough of an impression on the IOC.

  • 15 Wrestling Photos – A Sport the IOC are Erasing

    15 Wrestling Photos – A Sport the IOC are Erasing

    Olympic Wrestling shouldn’t be saved because of tradition and antiquity. It should be saved because it’s an important sports, a cornerstone of the Olympic games, just below the big three of Athletics, Swimming and Gymnastics (real gymnastics). Still, the IOC, out of corruption and connections of Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs prefers to keep the modern Pentathlon.

  • Another Olympic Opening Ceremony – Munich Massacre Not Mentioned Again

    The big question is this – If the event known as the Munich massacre, which involved the kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes & coaches, along with a German police officer, would have happened to a different nation, without all the political ramifications regarding the impossible web of Middle Eastern relations, would the IOC mention it in its opening ceremony?