NYTimes: International Olympic Committee - "elitist, domineering, and crassly commercial at its core"

[Alain Berranger]

You are perhaps confusing the permanent IOC, the organizing games
committees (rotating every two years) and the national Olympic committees...

On Friday, July 6, 2012, Nuno Garcia wrote:

> I have said this once: The Olympic Committee has a budget that is bigger
> than many nations' budgets. They can afford not  to be for-profit. The same
> goes for other organizations.
>
> And some statements are pure intellectual arrogance.
>
> Best,
>
> Nuno Garcia
>
> On 5 July 2012 23:16, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> But you are not disputing their facts, I take it.
>
> j
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Michael Carson <mcarson029 at comcast.net>wrote:
>
> Alain,
>
>
>
> I agree.  This op-ed is just that - the opinion of two individuals.
>
>   Michael Carson
>
> YMCA of the USA
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Alain Berranger" <alain.berranger at GMAIL.COM>
> *To: *NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> *Sent: *Thursday, July 5, 2012 3:55:09 PM
> *Subject: *Re: NYTimes: International Olympic Committee - "elitist,
> domineering, and crassly commercial at its core"
>
>
> NPOC  really welcomes national Olympic committees as Members because they
> are true notforprofit organizations...
>
> Alain
>
> On Thursday, July 5, 2012, Robin Gross wrote:
>
>  As a commercial organization that tried to join NCSG, very relevant…
>
> No Medal for the International Olympic Committee says the New York Times…..
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/opinion/no-medal-for-the-international-olympic-committee.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
>
>
> ------------------------------
> July 4, 2012
>  **Olympian Arrogance**** By JULES BOYKOFF and ALAN TOMLINSON****
> ****
>
> Brighton, England
>
> WHILE Europe roils in economic turmoil, London is preparing for a lavish
> jamboree of international good will: in a few weeks, the city will host the
> 2012 Summer Olympics.
>
> But behind the spectacle of athletic prowess and global harmony,
>
>

-- 
Alain Berranger, B.Eng, MBA
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