FRANCE: He, he - American slaves - poor Japenese people disturbed by French

Japan’s government has voiced anger over two cartoons published by a French newspaper depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of a crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and a radioactive pool, linking them to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

"This cartoon hurts the feelings of those who suffered through the great east Japan earthquake," Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press briefing on Thursday.

He referred to the March 2011 earthquake that triggered a tsunami which damaged three of the Fukushima plant’s reactors. The incident led to a nuclear disaster with the plant accumulating radioactive water ever since. The disaster forced the evacuation of about 160,000 residents within 20 km of the plant, and thousands more just outside the official contamination zone made their own decision to flee

An official complaint will be lodged with the weekly paper Le Canard Enchaine through the Japanese Embassy in France, the government spokesman added.

One of the cartoons carried in the satirical newspaper on Wednesday showed two SUMO wrestlers with extra legs and arms competing in front of the crippled nuclear plant with a sign reading "Marvelous! Thanks to Fukushima, sumo is now an Olympic sport." 

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Nine New IOC Members Elected

9/10/2013

Probst could give a boost to the United States' chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics. (Getty Images)

(ATR)The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, an actress, an airlines executive, and a Brazilian state congressmen are among nine new members elected at the IOC Session in Buenos Aires

The election of new members brings the IOC membership to 113.

The most significant is the election of Larry Probst, which may provide a boost for a possible U.S. bid for the 2024 Olympics. The chairman of video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. becomes the fourth U.S. IOC member after Anita DeFrantz, Jim Easton, and Angela Ruggiero.

Probst issued a statement saying he was honored by the election and proud to serve as a member of the IOC.

“It has been a great privilege to serve as chairman of the United States Olympic Committee and I look forward to continuing our collective efforts to advance the Olympic Movement and its important values of respect, friendship and excellence.”

Russian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov is rewarded for his contribution to Sochi 2014’s fast-track Olympic preparations in his current role and in his capacity as a deputy prime minister.

At 39 years of age, Camiel Eurlings of the Netherlands becomes one of the youngest IOC members. The CEO of KLM Airlines was handpicked by outgoing IOC member Willem-Alexander to be his replacement; he became the new Dutch king in April.

Eurlings, 39, is the CEO of KLM Airlines. (ATR)

“Those are extremely big shoes to fill, I can assure you,” Eurlings told ATR. “What gives me some comfort was that the King, in his speech after receiving the high Olympic order, said that an honorary member can also be very active. So I know he has a very big sports heart, and I’m sure that his sports heart will keep on beating also as an honorary member. So we will do it as a team.”

Eurlings said he hopes to be a very good ambassador of the IOC in his country “and I also want to really be a good representative of the Dutch sports world” internationally.

He said that a Dutch Olympic bid “is not on the agenda because the government said given the hard economic times, that is not a good discussion for this moment.”

Instead, the government plans to invest in sport for young people and be in organizing other great sporting events in the Netherlands in the future. 

“Who knows, if we come out of the crisis, what the next government will decide,” Eurlings said.

KLM is a worldwide airline and Eurlings said that before he became an IOC member there were already talks going on between Rio 2016 organizers about sponsorship. “That is not the issue for today,” he said. “I try to keep things very separate.”

Stefan Holm of Sweden also brings the average age of the IOC membership down. The 37-year-old Swedish high jumper won gold at the Athens Summer Games with a leap of 2.36m. He has also won four indoor world titles and bagged a silver at the Paris worlds in 2003.

Tergat won medals in Atlanta and Sydney. (ATR)

A former rugby player, the 52-year-old Romanian Octavian Morariu has been president of his country’s Olympic committee since 2004.

Kenyan long distance runner Paul Kibii Tergat, a silver medalist in the 10,000 meters at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, held the marathon world record from 2003 to 2007. He won two silvers and a bronze in the 1995, 1997 and 1999 world championships.

Tergat replaces fellow distance running great Kip Keino on the IOC. He said that to sit on the IOC "where most of the sports decisions are being made,” he could help the youth.

“It’s very important that we can be able let the young know that apart from their education, extracurricular activities is also very important," Tergat added.

Bernard Rajzman of Brazil is a former Brazilian volleyball player. He played in three Olympics, winning a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. He is president of Brazil's National Commission of Athletes and a state congressman.

Mikaela Maria Antonia Cojuangco-Jaworski, who is often known as Mikee Cojuangco, is an equestrienne, television host and actress from the Philippines. The 39-year-old won gold in the in the individual show jumping event at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.

Dagmawit Girmay Berhane is secretary general of the Ethiopian Olympic Committee. She is the president of Badminton Africa and also heads her country’s badminton federation.

Berhane is the secretary general of the Ethiopian Olympic Committee. (ATR)

Berhane, who first became an IOC member in 2010 based on her position in the EOC and is now an individual member, told Around the Rings, “It has been an honor serving and it will be an honor serving again, so I’m very happy I’m back in it.”

With Berhane one of the two new female members, women account for 20 percent of IOC membership.

“I do believe it is important, I don’t think this is enough, but still it is a good start,” she said. “We all have a role to play in that. I’m very happy it is continuing that way.”

The election of new IOC members followed the recommendations of the IOC Nominations Commission. They will be sworn in after the election of the new IOC president.

IOC member: Netherland - young forces

SUPERMAN WAS TOO SLOW FOR THIS MAN ...  

Camiel Martinus Petrus Stephanus Eurlings (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaː.mil ˈøːr.lɪŋs]) (born September 16, 1973) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as aMember of the House of Representatives from May 19, 1998 until July 20, 2004 when he became a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party until February 22, 2007 when he became Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the Cabinet Balkenende IV, serving until October 14, 2010. Earlier that year Eurlings announced his retirement from active-politics and became a corporate director for KLM, serving until July 2013 when he became the President and CEO of KLM and Vice Chairman of Air France-KLM.

ARISF: Cooperation between ARISF and the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Cooperation with the IOC

Significant steps forward in the cooperation between ARISF and the International Olympic Committee

06. August 2013

Dr. Raffaele Chiulli, President of the IOC Recognized International Sports Federations (ARISF) and the Secretary General Mr. Riccardo Fraccari met with Mr. Christophe Dubi, Sport Director of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital.

Dr. Chiulli confirmed his intention to lead ARISF to form a closer working relationship with the IOC and its related organizations and he underlined that ARISF has to play a key role in the effort of helping its member IF’s to be included in the Olympic Program and in finding the way to add new sports.

Chiulli also pointed out that 7 out of the 8 initially shortlisted IF’s for the 2020 Olympic Games were ARISF members and that if there will be changes in the Olympic Program it is fundamental that ARISF is involved in the process.

The ARISF President mentioned that he recently met with the newly elected SportAccord President and ARISF has started to cooperate very closely with SportAccord and intends to proactively participate to the main SportAccord activities.

The ARISF delegation informed the IOC that there will be soon a consultation process between all ARISF members in order to understand how the IOC can help and be more relevant to them.
The IOC will get the results of the consultation and jointly with ARISF will implement all necessary actions for improvement.

At the end of the meeting the ARISF President stated ”ARISF would like to promote and support the IOC Recognized IF’s and coordinate their common interests and goals and ARISF shall become one of the leading sport Associations and key partners of the IOC”.

Raffaele Chiulli, President of the IOC Recognized International Sports Federations (ARISF) and the Secretary General Riccardo Fraccari with Christophe Dubi, Sport Director of the International Olympic Committee at the IOC Headquarter in Lausanne

IOC: Germans on their way Thomas Bach (IOC president), Marius Vizer (Sportaccord president) - NEW CHANGES of Olympism?

The International Olympic Committee has elected a new president, naming Germany's Thomas Bach to replace the outgoing chief Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who served in the post for 12 years. Bach, a 59-year-old German lawyer, was chosen by secret ballot on the last day of meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Speaking to the crowd gathered in Argentina, Bach said "thank you" in several languages — to those who voted for him, and to his rival candidates. He then said his term as IOC president would be informed by his motto: "Unity in diversity." "I want to be a president for all of you," he said.

In winning the IOC post, Bach beat out five other candidates, including Sergey Bubka of Ukraine, Richard Carrión of Puerto Rico, Ser Miang Ng of Singapore, Denis Oswald of Switzerland and Ching-Kuo Wu of Chinese Taipei. Wu was eliminated in the first round; the voting stopped after a winner was chosen in the second round.

Under IOC rules, a new president must receive a majority of the votes. So the candidates who stood for the position went through several elimination rounds of voting, until the top candidate got the support of a majority.

In 1999, the IOC embraced a for its delegates and leaders, ending an era of lifetime terms in a move that was widely seen as a response to over the selection of Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Games. Those rules also installed a maximum delegate age of 70, instead of 80.

A former Olympic fencing gold medalist, Bach becomes the ninth president in the 119-year history of the IOC. He is the eighth European to hold the presidency.

Earlier at its sessions in Argentina, the IOC awarded the and for 2020 and 2024.
  International Judo Federation president Marius Vizer, who was recently elected as the new head of SportAccord, plans to organise a global world championship for all sports federations every four years, a move which many see as a direct challenge to the IOC and the Olympic Games. The 53-year-old, who already has a list of sponsors lined-up, including Gazprom, the Russian Government-owned energy supplier, hopes to launch the new concept as early as 2017. Vizer edged out rival Bernard Lapasset, the chairman of the International Rugby Board, by 52 votes to 37 at the SportAccord general assembly last week to replace Hein Verbruggen, the controversial Dutchman who had held the post since 2004.

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