Team-outfitting sponsorships are negotiated individually by national Olympic committees and vary from country to country.
About 12% go to national Olympic committees, who then can sell to customers in their countries.
The peace-deal was apparently brokered by the chairman of Cameroon's National Olympic and Sports Committee, Colonel Kalkaba Malboum.
"They put us up in a little better hotel, " said Liney Halldorsdottir, secretary-general of Iceland's National Olympic and Sports Association.
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Previous firms who had become national Olympic partners had found their businesses transformed, brands renewed, and workforce incentivised, he said.
Overseas fans will be able to use other cards if purchasing tickets from their national Olympic committee, rather than London 2012 sites.
This led to Adel Ali, Secretary General of Iraq's National Olympic Committee, announcing a commitment to better funding for sport in Iraq.
Sports leaders, including Manfred Ewald, the head of East Germany's National Olympic Committee from 1973 until 1990, were convicted in the doping programs.
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It is hoped a deal with the Oceania National Olympic Committees, which include Fiji and Palau, will also take in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
National Olympic Committees for each country generally do pay medal bonuses.
After Rashid's victory, Secretary General of Iraq's National Olympic Committee, Adel Ali, said his organisation was committed to providing better funding for sport in the country.
In the first half of last year, according to the national Olympic Committee, four of its athletes tested positive for drugs compared with 42 in all of 1994.
Classified as an asset of the Italian National Olympic Committee.
Only a few days before its July announcement that the two women would attend, the Saudi National Olympic Committee said it could not find a woman qualified enough to compete.
"Clearly this is a mistake, we will apologize to the team and the national Olympic committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again, " organizers said in a statement.
Unless a decision is made, the IOC is facing the prospect of having the 199 national Olympic bodies, which now subsist on IOC contributions, launching fledgling Web businesses to help pay for their athletes' training.
In accordance with their usual procedures, the IOC is now notifying the athletes through their own National Olympic Committees, although the Italian Olympic Committee confirmed one of their male athletes was among those who tested positive.
The teen and her father signed an agreement with Saudi Olympics officials that she would be allowed to compete only if she wore "correct and approved" clothing that "sticks to Islamic principles, " according to Saudi National Olympic Committee representative Razen Baker.
Further backing from Thabo Mbeki, the leader of South Africa - the first country from the continent which will stage the Fifa World Cup - and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa, led to a few plaudits from the media.
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While it is true that 92% of games revenues goes to the host and national olympic committees and some of this money is used to support athletes, this is not provided to all athletes (or even all medal-winning athletes) and is generally less than the true financial needs of the athlete.
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The former European champions have also expressed concerns that their 20-year-old striker is wanted by three categories of Egyptian national teams - youth, Olympic and full national side - and have said they only intend to release him for the Nations Cup.
To Drechsler, a former junior national champion, Olympic weight lifting remains the finest test of strength ever devised.
On China's Internet, blogs, bulletin boards and news sites carry photos of automobiles jerry-rigged to run on railroad tracks ("shanzhai trains"), fluffy dogs trimmed and dyed to look like the national mascot ("shanzhai pandas") and models of the Beijing Olympic Games' National Stadium made out of sticks ("shanzhai Bird's Nest").
The Office for National Statistics said that Olympic ticket sales had added 0.2 percentage points to the figures.
Then he coolly led the U.S. National Basketball team to Olympic gold.
Former Olympic kayaker Chris Barlow said that National Football League player Darren Sproles would likely be a good Olympic kayaker.
Perhaps the end of the Olympic drain on National Lottery funding will return to public projects elsewhere.
And stars in under-the-radar sports like speed skating and snowboarding need the Olympic platform for national exposure.
"We have informed the clubs and the national associations that those dates for Olympic qualifiers are outside the dates of the harmonised calendar, " a Fifa spokesman said.
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Callum, a two-time Optimist UK national champion, ran around the Olympic Stadium track along with the other teenagers after being passed the flame by Sir Steve Redgrave.
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