Cricket Rejects Olympics
The International Cricket Council rejected a proposal to begin the process of joining the Olympics.
The executive board voted against inclusion due to a potential loss in revenue and clashes with the Future Tour Programme, the ICC's competition plan for full members through 2020.
"There were a few issues like you cannot sport commercial logos in Olympics, while there's no gate money," said Jagmohan Dalmiya, the interim president of BCCI, India's governing body for cricket told reporters.
"We generate four times more in a World Cup than in an Olympics."
He added:"The boundaries in cricket and Olympics are different. We are saying this from our Commonwealth Games experience."
Cricket's earliest opportunity to join the Olympic Program would be in 2024.
IPC Announces Medal Quota
Rio 2016 will have the largest Paralympic Games in history.
On Friday, the International Paralympic Committee announced medal, event, and athlete quotas for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.The Games will see around 4,350 athletes competing for 526 medals in 22 sports.Canoeing and triathlon were added to the games program for the first time, and there will be 23 more medal events than in London 2012.
"In just over three years’ time Rio 2016 will host the biggest Paralympics Games yet in terms of athletes and sports.said Xavier Gonzalez, the IPC's Chief Executive Offer.
"As part of our development strategy we have increased the number of events for women and athletes with high support needs. By the time Rio comes along we will have doubled the number of female athletes competing in the Games in just 20 years which is a significant achievement."
Sochi's Olympic Dream Was So Distant - Zhukov
Six years to the day since Sochi won the right to host the 2014 Winter Games, Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov admits in an interview to R-Sport how distant that dream had been.
The little-known Black Sea resort had beaten off stiff competition from traditional winter sports centers Salzburg and Pyeongchang, South Korea, to win over the IOC members in a July 4, 2007 session in Guatemala.
"When we started our fight for the Olympics, our chances of victory were pretty small," Zhukov said. "In Sochi there was nothing. Everything we showed was computer models, in contrast to Salzburg and Pyeongchang, where you could see many of the existing facilities with your own eyes."
The key was in convincing the IOC that by handing the Games to Sochi they would put a new winter sports destination on the map, Zhukov said.
And a little help from President Vladimir Putin, who made impassioned speeches in English and French at Sochi's final bid presentation, didn't go amiss either, he added.
"In a fight where we were neck-and-neck with the Koreans, this was the decisive factor," Zhukov said.
It had indeed been a close contest at that IOC session: Sochi was trailing Pyeongchang, bidding for the second time, by two votes in the first round of balloting.
But enough members who had voted for Salzburg switched their votes to Sochi in the final round and the Russian city won it by four votes in the final analysis 51 to 47, a difference many put down to Putin's charisma.
Russia transformed a section of windswept lowlands next to Sochi airport into the Olympic Park, one of two clusters containing more than 200 facilities that were built from scratch in a project estimated to cost $50 billion, the most expensive Games in history.
With 218 days until the February 7 opening ceremony, the venues are finished but much of the surrounding infrastructure remains to be completed.
Published by exclusive arrangement with Around the Rings’ Sochi 2014 media partner RIA-Novosti.
Written by Aaron Bauer
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