RE-PAIRED OLYMPIC OFFICIALS DO THE RIGHT THING.Byline: STEVE DILBECK SALT LAKE CITY - We now return you to your normal Olympic viewing ... Yes, boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. , all things are possible. They can clone a cat, you can buy a beer in Utah, the International Olympic Committee “IOC” redirects here. For other uses, see IOC (disambiguation). The International Olympic Committee (French: Comité International Olympique) is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23 can make like Spike Lee Noun 1. Spike Lee - United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee . They really can do the right thing. Maybe not without enormous media and public pressure. Maybe not without an international arbitrator ready to humble them. Yet in the end, we must acknowledge that the IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= went out of character and played the hero. They finally stepped forward, led, and saw that the right thing was done in a timely manner. This sure isn't Juan Antonio Samaranch's IOC any longer. It is not the boys' club of Avery Brundage Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 – May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic . It is an organization in tune with the times. And they say life offers no surprises. The IOC has spent its entire existence acting as if it actually lived on Mt. Olympus. Very godly god·ly adj. god·li·er, god·li·est 1. Having great reverence for God; pious. 2. Divine. god , very above it all. Very superior. But then came the figure-skating scandal that became the 2002 Winter Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. , that almost miraculously became bigger than the Games themselves. Bigger than Enron! Bigger than the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act ! Bigger than the U.S. blue beret! NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. had a publicity gold mine, but the IOC had serious problems. Your IOC of the past gives it some superficial acknowledgment, brushes it aside, closes the door and moves on. Acts indignant if anyone dares continue to bring it up. Having already seen some IOC members exposed with their little hands out in one Salt Lake City scandal, new IOC president Jacque Rogge wasn't thrilled with the International Skating Union's laissez-faire attitude. You see how we have this French problem. The ISU ISU Iowa State University ISU Issue ISU Idaho State University ISU Illinois State University ISU Indiana State University ISU International Skating Union ISU International Space University ISU I-Shou University (Taiwan) , thinking this was still 2001, said it would try to get together and look into this pairs skating controversy on Monday. That's at least another three days of watching Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier For the American pair skater, see . David Jacques Pelletier (born November 22, 1974 in Sayabec, Québec) is a Canadian pairs figure skater, who is partnered with Jamie Salé. Early career Pelletier achieved early success as a pair skater with Julie Laporte. parade around on talk shows and the media work itself and the public into a lather. So Rogge and the IOC put the pressure on, and the message out. No more business as usual. No more looking the other way, no more because-I-said-so school of management control. This is all very promising, all well and good. And all far from over. Sale and Pelletier might now rightly share gold medals with Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze -- it must be true, Dubya said so - after French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne Marie-Reine Le Gougne, often known simply as The French Judge, was a central figure in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal. Le Gougne took up figure skating as a child in France, but never competed at a high level. admitted she succumbed to French federation pressure to score the Russian pair higher. At this moment, Le Gougne is your basic fall gal. But somebody was pressuring our frail little creature. That somebody wasn't doing it for the exercise. ``The investigation is not concluded,'' ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta said. So maybe they push forward and the French fall over. It's been known to happen. But it will have to be a warm Moscow winter before the Russians start opening up. And if you think Friday's decision has made everyone happy, you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. your borscht from your clam chowder chowder, stew of fish or shellfish with potatoes, onions, and pork (usually salt pork), thickened with crumbled hard bread. The name chowder seems to have originated from the French word chaudière . The Russians smell Western conspiracy, and you have to wonder if all this ruckus would have transpired if the Games were being played in Europe or Asia. As it is, figure skating figures finally to make overdue changes. Whether they add judges to the panel of nine, not permit anyone to judge if they have a participant in the competition from their country, switch to a more computer-driven judging, try to separate judges from mingling with skaters or declare any cheating will be punishable by death, changes figure to arrive. But now that the IOC has corrected one obvious wrong, what about those in its past? The U.S., which played the good guy when its judge came forward and turned in Le Gougne, quickly could dig up a couple of old wounds. What about the three seconds the Russian basketball team erroneously had added on, and added on, before it won the gold medal over the U.S. '72 basketball team? What about 156-pound boxer Roy Jones Jr. losing a 3-2 decision to South Korea's Si-Hun Park despite dominating him, and it turning out judges had bags of money from South Korean officials back in their hotel rooms? ``We dealt with the problems of the day,'' Rogge said. ``We'll see tomorrow how we deal eventually with other problems.'' For today, the IOC could be pleased with itself. For today, the right thing was done. More, though, is still to come. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ``This is not about us and the Russians. This is about a sport we love dearly. Justice was made. It's a good feeling.'' - David Pelletier Canadian pairs skater whose silver turned to gold with the decision ``For the future of our sport, this has to be fixed. The truth still has to come out.'' - Jamie Sale Pelletier's partner ``I don't think this has created damage to the Olympic movement, because it was resolved fast. This is definitely a closed matter.'' - Jacques Rogge International Olympic Committee president ``I do think it's the right thing to award the medal to the two Canadian skaters.'' - President Bush ``This is an unprecedented decision that turned out to be a result of pressure by the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. press, and turned out in favor of the fanatically loyal (North American) fans.'' - Valentin Piseyev head of Russia's Figure Skating Federation ``It's been quite a few crazy days, and I'm just happy it's off our shoulders, and we have the gold medal. Now it's over, we've got the gold, and we can move on.'' - Pelletier ``I believe that by declaring there is misconduct is more than enough. (French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne) was submitted to a certain pressure, and we do believe this pressure resulted in putting this judge in a condition not to be able to go in an adequate manner.'' - Ottavio Cinquanta International Skating Union The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. president CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Canadian pairs skaters David Pelletier and Jamie Sale are all smiles after learning Friday they would receive gold medals. Darron Cummings/Associated Press (2) Head of the Canadian delegation Sally Rehorick, left, expresses her support for Jamie Sale after Sale and pairs partner David Pelletier learned their silver medals had been ungraded to gold. Francois Marit/Associated Press Box: WHAT THEY'RE SAYING (see text) |
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