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  • Race Rebels

    Just a few hours ago, Australian Olympic sprinter Cathy Freeman, lit the cauldron that signifies the beginning the 2000 Olympic summer games in Sydney. Cathy Freeman is an Aboriginal athlete who became a household name after she wrapped herself in the Aboriginal flag rather than the Australian flag when she did her lap of honor at the 1994 Canadian Commonwealth games. A few months ago Freeman told a British newspaper that the Australian government...
    Sep 15, 2000 | Story

  • Whose Olympics??

    As the 2000 Summer Olympics opened in Sydney a few hours ago, the world watched a spectacular show of lights, music and dance telling the story of Australia’s history. Or one version of it anyway. Sydney put on its best multicultural face by using traditional Aboriginal myth and music as well as brightly costumed migrant communities to color the opening ceremony. And while the corporate sponsored gala was taking place, indigenous people,...
    Sep 15, 2000 | Story

  • Preview of Tomorrow's Program: The Olympic Committee - Behind the Rings

    Tomorrow the world’s attention will turn to Sydney, Australia, where the Olympic Ceremonies will begin. It won’t be soon enough for the International Olympic Committee. The institution that for years has promoted itself as the 'United Nations of Sports' is embroiled in an increasing number of controversial incidents as the games near. [includes rush transcript]
    Sep 14, 2000 | Story

  • A Journey in to What It Means to Be Maori

    In September the Summer Olympics will be taking place in Sydney, Australia. Aborigines have already begun their protest campaigns aimed to bring international attention to the situation they face with Black Deaths in Custody, the Stolen Generation and their struggle for land rights.
    Jul 24, 2000 | Story

  • Corruption at the International Olympic Committee: A Look at the Fascist Past of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch

    Today we are going to take a look at the career and past of a powerful man named Juan Antonio Samaranch.
    Dec 20, 1999 | Story

  • Olympic Bidding Scandal

    The president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, is facing increasing pressure to resign in the wake of the Olympic bid corruption scandal that has already led to the resignation of several IOC members. Samaranch is being criticized for creating a climate within the committee that fostered corruption, and for not pursuing a full investigation of how committee members were offered lavish gifts, cash and other enticements...
    Feb 12, 1999 | Story

  • Nike, CBS and the Olympics

    Discerning watchers of the Olympics may have seen CBS reporters sportingthe Nike "swoosh" logo on their jackets. This evidence of the cozyrelationship between news networks and their corporate sponsors is thesubject of an in-house controversy at CBS.
    Feb 17, 1998 | Story

  • The Olympics, the Environment and Trade

    Karla Bell is an environmental consultant and a former Greenpeace activist. Among other things, she developed the environmental guidelines for the Sydney Olympic games which will take place in the year 2000. Most recently, she has been working with the Stockholm 2004 Olympic bid committee which they just lost to Athens. As President Clinton seeks fast track authority with which to push international trade agreements, Ms. Bell explains how such...
    Sep 30, 1997 | Story

  • A Different Take on the Olympics

    While the rest of the media are busy reporting about the grand athletic accomplishments, the vast logistical problems and, of course, the heat and Southern hospitality of the Atlanta Olympics. Here we lend a critical eye and an analytical voice to this international spectacle, an event that’s as much about nationalism, symbolism, and image as it is about athletic competition.
    Jul 23, 1996 | Story

  • 1936 Olympics in Berlin

    The U.S. Holocaust Museum has just opened an exhibit about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, when Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used the international sporting event to aggrandize his racist regime, with the full cooperation of Olympic officials from the U.S. Last week, a group of athletes who competed in the 1936 Olympics spoke at the museum. Their stories have become legend to some, but are mostly unknown to younger generations.
    Jul 23, 1996 | Story