So, what can the IOC teach the world about the value of a social media strategy?
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The IOC in February recommended that wrestling be dropped from the Olympic program starting in 2020.
The IOC established the world's first tsunami warning system in the Pacific in 1965.
In that context, the IOC disciplinary commission will submit its recommendations to the IOC Executive Board.
The IOC reserves its right to take into account any other relevant developments or facts.
Previous IOC statements have suggested that the IOC would follow suit with the IAAF.
The organization issued a statement calling its executives "greatly astonished" by the IOC's move.
The IOC board says it will reconsider this week's blunder at a meeting in May.
The IOC should ask itself whether all this makes sense, whether this is rational or madness.
So why then did the IOC's members stay so loyal to their former president?
The endearment is perhaps surprising considering that Samaranch had led the IOC through its greatest crisis.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice defended the IOC, saying it was their decision to make.
He and wrestlers worldwide have mobilized to try to persuade the IOC to reverse course.
The IOC requires transgender athletes to undergo hormone therapy long enough to remove gender-related advantages.
The IOC channel will also continue to feature historic content from past Olympic Games.
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The IOC of UNESCO is very pleased to have been able to participate in this project.
Others credit softball's perceived lack of popularity in Europe, where the IOC is headquartered.
The new drug, called Aranesp or darbepoetin, was not on the IOC's banned drugs list.
The IOC, meanwhile, now has to decide if Katerina Thanou should be awarded a gold medal.
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It's up to the U.S. committee to handle retrieving the medal from Armstrong, the IOC said.
All countries participating in the IOC are now involved, with 30 countries donating Argo floats.
Four members of the executive board are running to replace Jacques Rogge as president of the IOC.
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Mr Inose said that from now on he would campaign "strictly in accordance with the IOC rules".
The final decision will be taken by the IOC at its congress in Singapore on 6 July.
The USOC was notified Wednesday that the IOC wants the medal back, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.
The recommendation must be rubber-stamped by a full meeting of the IOC congress in Copenhagen in October.
The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the IOC said in a news release.
As such, the IOC is afforded competitive and commercial benefits that are essentially unique and highly distinctive.
This dialogue arguably would never have occurred had the IOC not taken its brash and unsupported decision.
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Out of the 45 things we told the IOC we'd complete, almost all are now in operation.
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