Many international sports governing bodies have rushed to condemn Russia.
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She said the governing bodies had "again failed clean athletes".
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Boxing has too many governing bodies to declare one true champion.
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The impact is not lost on Israel's other tennis governing bodies.
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We're not participating in the various governing bodies across multiple countries.
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Even if the funding for a combined organization needs to come from tennis's governing bodies, they need to have no leverage over its operation, and it should not share a headquarters with any of those governing bodies.
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He foresees conflicts between players, clubs, governing bodies and the Home Office.
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He also feels governing bodies must work uniformly in handling doping cases.
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Instead, the I.O.C. let individual sports governing bodies lead the decision-making.
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Parallel proposals have been taken up by other governing bodies on campus.
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The integrity unit is theoretically independent, yet it is funded by tennis's governing bodies and reports to those governing bodies, each of whom — the I.T.F., the WTA, the ATP and the Grand Slam events — has a designated integrity officer.
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Few in FIFA or other governing bodies appear truly keen to combat corruption.
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SafeSport left it up to the governing bodies to make those names public.
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Nobody denies it, including the international governing bodies, the players and the coaches.
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For such cricketers, drug testing depends on national governing bodies and antidoping authorities.
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To the leaders of the game's governing bodies, that isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Most often, that has meant tirades against referees, soccer's governing bodies and, once, Unicef.
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Governing bodies wish to keep their sports stable – moving forward, but not too quickly.
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We need to work with our national governing bodies to get sticks in hands.
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The investigation has sent Switzerland-based FIFA and other governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis.
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Why it matters: Pressure is building on soccer's governing bodies to address gender pay disparities.
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USA Gymnastics and other athletic governing bodies would have to implement policies to prevent abuse.
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"It's time," he added, for sports leagues' governing bodies to reconsider their positions on CBD.
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Tennis has become fragmented and territorial with numerous governing bodies, crowded schedules and over management.
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But just to reiterate, these planes are still certified as airworthy by aviation's governing bodies.
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As museum directors, staff, and governing bodies wrestle with these questions, moral conflicts have emerged.
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How these competitions will eventually intertwine remains something for the governing bodies to wrestle with.
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Traditional medicine's governing bodies have urged practitioners not to use endangered animals, with limited success.
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Horses can be raced under the jurisdiction of any one of the 38 independent governing bodies.
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The investigation has sent Switzerland-based FIFA and other soccer governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis.
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In October, Theranos decided to downsize that board and rearranged it into three different governing bodies.
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Because the building is classified as a historic monument, governing bodies must approve changes, but Mrs.
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Apple worked with all the governing bodies to move whatever text they could off the phones.
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For widespread, longitudinal studies to be effective, researchers will require lasting investment from football's governing bodies.
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Courtsiding is not illegal, but it is frowned upon by gambling authorities and tennis's governing bodies.
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Europe's governing bodies remain divided on a cadmium limit, and how quickly it would be enacted.
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What about those barred previously, some many years ago, by one of the national governing bodies?
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In 2020 the sport's governing bodies are hoping to see an even bigger surge in interest.
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Apple, Unicode, and the governing bodies of nations, on the other hand, do have that power.
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Other national governing bodies in the United States have taken measures to support their women's teams.
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Ultimately this is linked to to the previous point about club's relationship with authorities and governing bodies.
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And the leaders of the sport's multiple governing bodies are planning new measures to fight match fixing.
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For now, the vetting process for all professional cyclists is still being put together by governing bodies.
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The Academy and other governing bodies are committing to concerted, immediate efforts to encourage and recognize diversity.
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The investigation has plunged Zurich-based FIFA and the sport's regional governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis.
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They also welcomed the report's statement that there is no evidence of "institutional corruption" in governing bodies.
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Reedie said governments and sports governing bodies, had to invest more to ensure their sports were clean.
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Others ask national or international governing bodies to step in and create regulations to manage the problem.
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The issue is a scheduling problem and it's the fault of the governing bodies of the sport.
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People make such judgments: the governing bodies of sports decide what's fair or clean and what's not.
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Racing's governing bodies and organizers must also step up, investing to make karting more affordable and accessible.
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The guidance sets out best-practice principles and establishes minimum governance standards for governing bodies of funds.
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There are often multiple governing bodies for new projects, each of which has to give its approval.
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This has led governing bodies to the second option: picking a physical characteristic that exists on a spectrum.
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For governing bodies, the Olympics represents a unique chance to showcase a sport, increase participation and attract sponsorship.
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Fortunately, thanks to the work of nonprofit governing bodies like ICANN, the world mostly runs on one internet.
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Local governing bodies ought not rely on the federal government to lead on criminal justice or police reform.
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Amnesty said that the "deeply flawed" database, frequently shared with local governing bodies, violated young people's privacy rights.
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Last week, official pronouncements from China's governing bodies have taken the restrictions on outbound investment a step further.
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Nunn: It was [governing] bodies coming to us [at the Olympics] and saying, listen let's make this professional.
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But a number of new initiatives, many of them coming from governing bodies, are focused on implementing change.
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"The world is changing, and I think it's unavoidable for sports governing bodies to accept this," Grigorishin said.
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San José's ruling adds to the very small handful of decisions by governing bodies to take greater action.
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It called for age-appropriate play, drawn from best practices endorsed by sports governing bodies in other countries.
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Pre-existing patronage networks have been shattered and replaced by semi-independent warlords, militias or local governing bodies.
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The low profile and opaque background of Chinese buyers is starting to raise questions among soccer's governing bodies.
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Right now, states and governing bodies are focused almost exclusively on reducing opioid prescriptions rather than finding alternatives.
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The proposal received opposition from the Spanish Football Association and soccer's world and European governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA.
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"What do you expect from a court whose judges are mostly appointed by the sports' governing bodies?" she said.
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"Sport has a responsibility to do what it can, and that means from fans to governing bodies," he said.
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The process of appointing top officials to the city's anticorruption commission and to university governing bodies should be reformed.
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The effectiveness of the Global Goals relies on coordinated efforts between governing bodies, local organizations, business leaders and philanthropists.
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"Governing bodies, employers, and leagues owe a duty of care to provide players with a safe workplace," he added.
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All 25 governing bodies in a very red county were asking Pennsylvania's Legislature to pass a fair redistricting law.
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For two years, Bangladesh, Myanmar and international governing bodies have deliberated over whether Rohingyas should return to their land.
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She conceded, however, that the delay in dealing with Russia created a "murky situation" for all sports governing bodies.
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"There is no trust in the governing bodies," said Michael Gabriel, the head of Germany's Fan Project Coordination Center.
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The governing bodies for each sport were left to scrutinize their own athletes and mete out punishment when warranted.
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Moore and Perrin said they were comfortable with the support they felt from other players and tennis governing bodies.
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Part of the problem, according to experts, is that governing bodies haven't standardized a definition for self-driving vehicles.
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In Rwanda, the constitution mandates that at least 30 percent of all members of governing bodies should be women.
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Outside the Olympics, the international governing bodies for individual sports have autonomy over disciplining athletes for violations like doping.
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Outside of the Olympics, sports governing bodies have autonomy over disciplining athletes for violations like doping or manipulating samples.
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Only FIFA and FINA, the international soccer and aquatics governing bodies, make universal exercise messages a priority, researchers found.
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The German court said it found a structural imbalance within the sports court that favored sports governing bodies over athletes.
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They are graded with that system by the same agencies and governing bodies that grade all of the mined diamonds.
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CE: First and foremost, sport governing bodies failed to protect the values of their sport, the credibility of the competition.
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World number two Novak Djokovic, however, warned Pique in his dealing with the "complex" structure of the sport's governing bodies.
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Some of the meets were organized by Western Zone Swimming and Pacific Northwest Swimming -- regional governing bodies for the sport.
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International soccer governing bodies, which garner millions of dollars for selling the broadcasting rights to games, have also become involved.
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We are in constant contact with local governments, state governments, national governments and governing bodies and the World Health Organization.
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Unfortunately, pro tennis's numerous governing bodies are better at defending their territory than doing what is best for the sport.
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The uproar is the latest demonstration of the deep divisions in tennis, a sport with multiple governing bodies and agendas.
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Those valuable lessons can be used to save lives and money, he said, if governing bodies take them to heart.
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The USOPC would be required to provide more oversight of governing bodies, while also establishing clear procedures to report abuse.
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The case has also drawn focus on a general lack of independence in the antidoping process at sports governing bodies.
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As fire seasons grow in length and intensity, leagues and athletic governing bodies will keep being confronted with the problem.
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She was accepted, with the R&A, one of golf's governing bodies, paying 40 percent of her annual college expenses.
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In 22017, Mountjoy and colleagues asked 28 international sports governing bodies to rank the importance of 11 health-related topics.
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The key is that the officials won't be those from international federations, which are the global governing bodies of sports.
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It's a rare move — the Olympic committee has decertified governing bodies only three times in recent years — but it's necessary.
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While tennis's governing bodies measure court speed in isolation, it is more useful to gauge the overall conditions at a tournament.
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The great castles of Westeros are the society's symbols of stability and security, housing all their history, nobility, and governing bodies.
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It also signed partnerships with the national governing bodies for England and Germany soccer and the SoftBank Hawks Japanese baseball team.
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The remaining obstacles for Russian competitors are the few governing bodies that have taken anti-doping discipline into their own hands.
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It would also allow Congress to dissolve the USOPC's entire board and decertify national governing bodies like USA Gymnastics if necessary.
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Well, now you can add to that his plight to help reform one of the world's more corrupt governing bodies: FIFA.
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Russia's soccer authorities, wary of possible repercussions if Crimea falls foul of the governing bodies, were cautious about the Crimean initiative.
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As for which athletes will be cleared to compete in the Games, WADA defers to the governing bodies for specific sports.
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Semenya's story is about the ongoing efforts by sports governing bodies to develop gender divisions that are fair to all athletes.
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The US organization will continue to rely on the international governing bodies to make a decision, she said in a statement.
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Why it matters: The deal "sets the model" for soccer governing bodies around the world, said players' union CEO John Didulica.
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The committee didn't require its national governing bodies to run abuse education programs, or even conduct criminal background checks, until 2014.
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Larson said she is pushing for legislation to require Olympic governing bodies to immediately report sex abuse allegations to law enforcement.
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The game's governing bodies might be eager to simplify the rules, but their intent was never to make the game easier.
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She was joined by the top executives from the U.S. Olympic Committee and the national governing bodies of swimming, taekwondo and volleyball.
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There were no immediate replies from the FIS or the IOC nor the other two governing bodies to Reuters requests for comment.
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The governing bodies have until Friday to submit written responses on questions from that panel about their handling of sexual misconduct cases.
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"We need assurances from sports' international governing bodies in the form of decisive actions, not just words," the House committee's letter said.
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Concerned that Thai Buddhism is in decline, some have called for bold reforms of the country's religious institutions and their governing bodies.
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There are, however, things that can and should be done to reduce the fierceness of the atmosphere that pervades our governing bodies.
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The center is a US Olympic Committee agency with oversight of sexual misconduct and other abuse allegations reported to national governing bodies.
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The new defender, he said, could empower a lawyer to "represent and defend athletes against the actions" of offending national governing bodies.
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Later during that tournament, tennis governing bodies announced they would create an independent review panel to assess the Tennis Integrity Unit's effectiveness.
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English soccer was suspended until April 30 earlier in the day and governing bodies said the current season could be extended indefinitely.
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The harassment allegations against Ahmad are the first to be made against the leader of one of soccer's six regional governing bodies.
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The Olympic committee has decertified other federations in the past for mismanagement, stripping them of their authority as the national governing bodies.
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Gimelstob also is a frequent contributor to Tennis Channel and an elected official of the ATP, one of tennis's seven governing bodies.
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The report prompted senators to push for more stringent legal accountability for Olympic and athletic governing bodies that fail to protect athletes.
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LaPant had never considered consulting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, not with the go-ahead from two other farm-governing bodies.
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"The men who run the [Cambodian sports] governing bodies told me I was too old to run at the Olympics," she says.
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Three governing bodies, the Faculty Senate, University Assembly and Student Assembly, all voted to ask the trustees to delay the vote until March.
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Tesla plans to incrementally update the software until its cars are capable of full self-driving, a term that governing bodies haven't standardized.
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In announcing the review, the governing bodies of tennis also committed to make "the outcomes and recommendations" of the new panel publicly available.
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And those studies should be reported on, so that governing bodies, leagues, coaches, players, and parents can make informed decisions about health risks.
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Hoping to fend off growing suspicions about the prevalence of match fixing in tennis, the sport's governing bodies have decided to take action.
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And the governing bodies do little to investigate the assaults happening behind bars, despite a legal obligation to meet federal regulations, they say.
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Just one man claiming that he can singlehandedly shape the future of one of the most powerful, wealthy governing bodies in the world.
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Currently, the governing bodies for individual sports decide on sanctions, and athletes have the option of appealing those penalties to the arbitration court.
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How these competitions will intertwine remains something for the governing bodies to wrestle with, as is the future of this season's club competitions.
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"We highlight the need for efforts to educate committees and governing bodies about the existence and consequences of these biases," the authors write.
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To tackle homophobia among fans, Brennan said sports clubs and governing bodies should support more gay players to come out if they wish.
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U.S.A. Swimming and U.S.A. Track & Field, the governing bodies for those sports in the United States, have called for a one-year delay.
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The bill gives Congress authority to dissolve the board of the USOPC and decertify national governing bodies should they fail to protect athletes.
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" Craig argues governing bodies have to "lead here on racism and homophobia, or it's just another sign of their lack of moral fiber.
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There are no easy truths when it comes to the benefits and perils that social media platforms now present to our governing bodies.
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Swimming "fast suits", tennis rackets, golf balls and putters have forced all of their sport governing bodies to step in with strict regulations.
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After that, it's up to the International Olympic Committee and other governing bodies who have signed the WADA antidoping code to enforce them.
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The Women's Sports Foundation's research showed that of the 2000 national governing bodies in the United States, six have women at the top.
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The game's governing bodies categorically denied the allegations, but have set up an Independent Review Panel (IRP) to investigate its anti-corruption procedures.
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The anti-doping watchdog also calls on world governing bodies of sports implicated in the inquiry report to consider action against Russian national bodies.
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On the distribution side, DSOs provide connections to end-use customers and are regulated by state legislatures and state PUCs or local governing bodies.
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Now, BMX practitioners have little sway in what funding they receive from their national governing bodies because they're small fish in a big pond.
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The governing bodies of cricket in India, England and Australia insisted that their men be permanently installed at the head of powerful ICC committees.
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Ideally, one would obtain assistance from some of the more dynamic political parties, particularly in Europe, and establish a partnership with their governing bodies.
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These include smaller governing bodies such as city, state and regional governments, as well as private entities such as companies, investors and civil organizations.
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WADA president Craig Reedie, who also addressed delegates, said governments and sports governing bodies, had to invest more to ensure their sports were clean.
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The Justice Department is investigating the way the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and national governing bodies of Olympic sports handled sex-abuse allegations.
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Russian officials frequently play down the problem, often citing bias by the Western news media, but governing bodies like UEFA and FIFA are concerned.
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According to a league representative, the players have visitor visas and are part of efforts by Japan's hockey governing bodies to develop their skills.
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Charges have been filed against about 40 different individuals and entities, including the former heads of soccer's two regional governing bodies in the Americas.
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There is the issue of its structure, which, with multiple governing bodies and no final arbiter, severely limits its ability to make calendar changes.
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On Tennis Even in a divided sport with a surplus of governing bodies, there is finally genuine consensus that Davis Cup needs to change.
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English soccer's governing bodies on Friday suspended all elite matches in England, including the Premier League, Football League (EFL) and Women's Super League (WSL).
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But maybe that's where the problem lies: Governing bodies and many prominent, seemingly benevolent institutions still utilize an ableist sense of what labor is.
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More sports governing bodies are being asked to create their own plans as more professional athletes speak up, normalizing what remains a stigmatized topic.
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Damian Collins MP, a vigorous campaigner to clean up soccer's corruption-plagued FIFA, described the TIU as a "fig-leaf" for tennis's governing bodies.
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Many governing bodies for individual sports have also eagerly tried to welcome back Russian athletes into the competitions they oversee, but not track and field's.
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Backed by promoters and governing bodies in MMA and boxing, it tests active and retired fighters to better understand the effects of repetitive head trauma.
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Vokrri, 57, put Kosovo on the world soccer map when the small country became member of the sport's UEFA and FIFA governing bodies in 2016.
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The male-only membership has increasingly become an anachronism undermining one of the main mandates of golf's governing bodies, which is to grow the game.
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The governing bodies for those three sports must decide whether to approve the athletes in question, after which the Olympic committee must give final approval.
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And it's both the athletes' and the governing bodies' jobs to keep their sports as evenly parred and fairly played between competing men and women.
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"The governing bodies of international tennis will publish this document and have committed to fund and implement all of the IRP's recommendations," the statement said.
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The governing bodies said, however, that matches could still go ahead if it was mutually agreed by the member associations with certain safety standards met.
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But making a noise does amplify force and is not banned by sports governing bodies, so can be considered a useful and sporting competitive tool.
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By comparison, a consortium of American golf governing bodies and industry partners recently estimated the number of golfers in the United States at 23.8 million.
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Those demands make complete sense when the U.S.O.C.'s weak oversight of Olympic sports' national governing bodies very likely helped a predator like Nassar thrive.
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Now the game's governing bodies interact with L.G.B.T. activists, and top-level clubs have established links with "gay-friendly" amateur teams and L.G.B.T. supporters' groups.
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Sport governing bodies — including USA Swimming and USA Track and Field — called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the games for one year.
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It's become a buzzword on the Street as companies face growing pressure from governing bodies and investors alike to provide more transparency around their operations.
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Over all, 0003 of 2000 total members of national governing bodies (about 220 percent) are women, about a 21 percent decline since the 2012 Olympics.
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The International Olympic Committee lets transgender athletes compete under certain criteria, and many governing bodies in professional sports have policies modeled after the IOC's. Rep.
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Part of the terms of the agreement announced on Monday include a greater role for affected people in the governing bodies of the Renova Foundation.
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"The measures approved by the governing bodies... are an important step toward improving Greek debt sustainability," the bailout fund head Klaus Regling said in a statement.
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Rules laid down by overbearing governing bodies, imposing limits on weight, dimensions, power output, tire choices, aerodynamics, braking, and whatever else they can think to control.
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The raid in Austria signals that the investigation has extended to other sports' governing bodies and could raise additional questions about possible bribery in other federations.
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Ultimately, then, it seems that the burden must fall at the feet of clubs and governing bodies if there is going to be any meaningful impact.
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Over time, governing bodies have decided not to exclude such people if their conditions neither raise doubts about their biological sex nor confer a sporting advantage.
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First announced last November, PRO Rugby is the first American competition sanctioned by both USA Rugby and World Rugby, the sport's global and domestic governing bodies.
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Supporters feel they are being treated with an unjustified distrust by the country's authorities and governing bodies, and tolerance of this is starting to wear thin.
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Confusingly, Libya now has three proclaimed governing bodies — one in the east and two based in Tripoli — all with questionable legitimacy and varying degrees of control.
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Parallel governing bodies and systems both compete and cooperate, engaged in a recursive process of communication that drives them to respond to one another and improve.
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If Olympics officials amended the ruling against Russia, it would be an unusual move, as they have historically deferred to the governing bodies of specific sports.
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"FIFA is now clean from the scandals that tarnished its reputation, and this same determination should prevail in governing bodies such as confederations," FIFA's statement said.
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The governing bodies of English soccer have announced in a joint statement that elite-level matches, including the Premier League, will be suspended until early April.
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Some Grand Slam leaders have suggested that a combined event involving the men and women and backed by all governing bodies could be the way forward.
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MEXICO CITY — Golf's two governing bodies released a draft of new rules on Wednesday aimed at bringing common sense to what can be a complicated sport.
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Mr. Nounou said the document, the result of four years of work, is not yet final and has not yet been approved by Hamas's governing bodies.
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"We don't contest that the primary responsibility still lies with the state, but sports governing bodies also have a responsibility to respect human rights," Florence said.
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"The young women's stories we heard today reinforced our determination to root out abuse in youth sport governing bodies," the pair said in a joint statement.
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The aim of the campaign is to get governing bodies to put in place a zero-tolerance policy in regard to the mistreatment of women and girls.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday denied allegations by the governing bodies of world tennis that a television channel illegally showing matches is based in the kingdom.
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A group of 16 U.S. senators introduced a bill on Monday that would force Olympic national governing bodies to disclose allegations of child sexual abuse to authorities.
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The two governing bodies said in a statement they would "discontinue any steps to facilitate or consider viewer call-ins as part of the Rules decision process".
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Catapulting teenage boys into a high-pressure, high-stakes environment surely necessitates a care-giving duty on the part of football clubs, as well as governing bodies.
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The hustle isn't easy, even when you're the best in your sport—and the governing bodies surrounding track and field, athletes say, don't make things any easier.
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Attorney John Manly, who represents many of Nassar's victims, described the report as a "damning indictment" of the sport's governing bodies and the "failures" of the FBI.
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With no title fight in almost a year, and nothing on the horizon, Hearn believes the governing bodies will step in and Fury will lose his belts.
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The Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU), under whose jurisdiction Crimean soccer still operates in the eyes of soccer's international governing bodies, was not immediately available for comment.
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Those women must still convince their own state ethics boards, legislatures, or other governing bodies to let them use campaign funds to pay for child care expenses.
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Among the open regulatory questions are: What governing bodies will provide the regulatory answers and how will the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the SEC work together?
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"Our political system is well served when qualified folks from other fields take a temporary turn participating in the governing bodies of our great country," he said.
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I think they did, but that's certainly a debating point: whether there ought to be [more governing bodies] examining what's going on in a more transparent way.
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We have built our own defense units, our own political institutions and governing bodies to establish pockets of freedom and democracy in a country being torn apart.
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They also say the governing bodies of their sports have failed to ensure the integrity of the competition, even at the highest-profile events, like the Olympics.
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An independent report commissioned by tennis's major governing bodies concluded in April that tennis faced "very significant" integrity problems caused by a sharp increase in internet betting.
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And the tournament is sanctioned by the European Tour, the Asian Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia, showing that governing bodies understand the need for change.
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" The official said the U.S. goals included "supporting local governing bodies that are representative of the area, civilian-led, and credible in the eyes of the populations.
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According to the Senate's website, local governing bodies would be allowed, but not required, to choose whether or not to adopt the bill in their respective cities.
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All four of the game's governing bodies — the International Tennis Federation, the WTA Tour, the ATP and the Grand Slam tournaments — have officers who monitor the integrity unit.
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And although parent-led school governing bodies are meant to hold teachers to account, they are more often controlled by the union, or in some cases by gangs.
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None of the three international governing bodies responded to requests for comment, but IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau confirmed the IOC had been copied into the letter to FIS.
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That is, unless you count the black eyes incurred by U.S.A. Swimming and the United States Olympic Committee, the governing bodies for which Lochte proved an indecorous ambassador.
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The sport's global governing body is set to a host a two-day meeting with chief executives of the governing bodies of cricketing nations in Singapore this week.
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Complicating the issue, the EU broadly ceded control over communicating its policies to Member States' governing bodies, who are less inclined to de-politicize the policy communication process.
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But most countries, including Britain, still leave anti-doping control to individual sports' governing bodies and anti-doping agencies, with punishments limited to bans and reclaiming prize money.
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Reportedly, the IOC specifically ordered the lab doing the re-testing, in Lausanne, to alert them of any positives before alerting the athletes and the sport's governing bodies.
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The undeniable advantage in the Winter Games has long gone to nations with the strongest national governing bodies, which are the biggest financing system for athletes in training.
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And it is likely Congress would not be demanding change in how the United States Olympic Committee and Olympic sports' national governing bodies deal with sexual misconduct cases.
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The panel also recommended greater cooperation between the T.I.U. and law enforcement agencies, as well as other third parties like national federations and governing bodies in other sports.
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But the so-called right to advertise your home has long been curtailed by the governing bodies in many well-to-do communities in the New York area.
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FIFA and other governing bodies that have sold exclusive broadcast rights to beIN have supported the company's antipiracy efforts but have generally chosen not to criticize Saudi Arabia.
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"The player is permanently ineligible to compete in or attend any sanctioned event organized or recognized by the governing bodies of the sport," TIU said in a statement.
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These dogs are fully recognized by all the relevant governing bodies, and accepted as a legitimate member of the hairless breed, despite the fact that they have hair.
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But because these islands are hundreds of miles from the mainland, oversight comes from a hodgepodge of governing bodies, and decisions are often made in the capital, Quito.
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Effectively pursuing bridge cheaters used to be difficult, partly because the governing bodies were fearful of being sued, and partly because cheating could be extremely difficult to prove.
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Others need to follow, and as the year was coming to a close, sports governing bodies were often stumbling over one another to project transparency and reformist zeal.
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At all other events and training camps that are not held at U.S.O.C. facilities, the national governing bodies are responsible for the care and feeding of their athletes.
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"We believe that if you change sports governing bodies, they have the power to prevent these violations from happening," said Andrea Florence, strategic alliance officer for Children Win.
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My own sport offers one of the best examples of why these inequities persist: administrative red tape when governing bodies even try to add women's events to their roster.
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This bill would apply specifically to the 47 national Olympic governing bodies, but it's unclear how this bill would interact with the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.
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"Game 39", a proposal made in 2008 by the English Premier League to play a round of overseas fixtures each year, was shot down by governing bodies and fans.
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Control of how that money is spent ultimately lies in the hands of the Church's governing bodies, the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and the President and his two counselors.
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A spokesman for Wiggins said the injection referred to in the leaked information was an intramuscular treatment for asthma that had been fully approved by the sport's governing bodies.
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In the wake of the recent allegations of corruption, the sport's international governing bodies announced on January 27th that they would commission an independent audit of the TIU's performance.
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Soccer governing bodies say the transfer of players between clubs should be about strengthening competition and helping teams to win trophies, and not about generating profits for financial investors.
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Unless the governing bodies want to create an infinitesimally complicated handicap system, they should back off and allow the games to celebrate human diversity in all of its forms.
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In the economically stunted north, any agreement will have to allay fears of a flood of Greek Cypriot capital and underrepresentation in the governing bodies of a united island.
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It is critical that other European governing bodies learn from this hard-taught lesson, but even more imperative that the Clinton campaign take notes and adjust their campaign strategy.
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The Senate subcommittee is waiting for responses from the national governing bodies of 53 other Olympic sports, from swimming to figure skating, to help determine the extent of abuse.
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Sport governing bodies openly asked the IOC to postpone, as quarantine measures across the world have prevented athletes from training or even being able to participate in qualifying rounds.
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Outside of the Olympics, the governing bodies for individual sports have also begun reacting to the mountainous evidence of doping of Russian athletes in global competitions going back years.
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Other governing bodies and social groups need to ensure that parents have adequate wage replacement to stay home with their children and protection from eviction should they lose wages.
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The Senate subcommittee is among congressional panels seeking answers about sexual abuse from the USOC, 48 national governing bodies of various sports and Michigan State University, where Nassar worked.
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It has noted that a number of sports governing bodies hold stakes in competitions or manage them and that this is not necessarily "problematic from a competition point of view".
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"We do not share any of our customers' personal information with anyone including other individuals, organisations, corporations, authorities, or governing bodies," said MobiKwik in a statement issued to BuzzFeed News.
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"The young women's stories we heard today reinforced our determination to root out abuse in youth sport governing bodies," Moran and Blumenthal said in a joint statement to the publication.
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"We would really welcome a decision by sports' governing bodies to take a stance which says that they understand that sexual violence is a serious and heinous crime," said Katie.
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"It also gives us confidence that the structure of the relationship between other National Governing Bodies, their athletes and UK Sport can continue in a similar way," the body added.
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It further designates the United States Center for Safe Sport to develop and enforce policies and training for sports governing bodies to prevent physical, emotional and sexual abuse of athletes.
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And then, of course, there's the whole anti-competitive dust up that has found the company at odds with Apple and a number of global governing bodies like the FTC.
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Ms. Hirshland said Thursday that she did not yet have "enough insight" to structure a plan that would improve the relationship between the U.S.O.C. and the sports' national governing bodies.
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That would require each of tennis's seven governing bodies to cede some of its authority, a situation that would probably require an existential threat to the game's viability or profitability.
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The coronavirus spreading in the United States and across the world may be new to scientists, but the responses launched by local, state, national and international governing bodies are not.
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The United States governing bodies of swimming and track — two of the three top-tier Summer Games sports — had called on their national Olympic officials to push for a postponement.
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Tennis Australia and the United States Tennis Association, the governing bodies for the sports in two nations that host Grand Slam events, were on board here as investors and partners.
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Then, too, because most infrastructure decisions in the U.S. are made at the state or local level, involving multiple governing bodies, projects must also satisfy a wide range of constituencies.
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Two lawmakers will introduce a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would hold the Olympic committee and national sports governing bodies to more stringent legal accountability for failing to protect athletes.
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The US Olympic Committee agency that oversees sexual misconduct and other abuse allegations reported to national governing bodies said it does not speak about specific matters according to its policy.
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The recommendation calls for Russian athletes tainted by doping questions to be barred from all international competitions for four years by governing bodies that are signatories to the WADA code.
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This month, the UN General Assembly, as well as many of the governing bodies behind the UN's SDGs, will be convening and we'll be breaking down a goal a day.
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A member of Wednesday's panel noted that this could be perceived as a conflict of interest and asked Willerton if it was right that the governing bodies were the final arbiter.
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He was among the first soccer officials arrested as part of a sweeping U.S. investigation of corruption in soccer that has sent FIFA and other governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis.
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On Thursday, Abanca said Eraña Guerra would take over as non-executive chairman of the Spanish lender, ensuring the "normal functioning" of the bank's governing bodies during the absence of Escotet.
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City Council meetings in the past year alone tell a story of the struggle local governing bodies face in reacting to the large changes in the law on the state level.
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Governing bodies are still reserved on the matter, which is part of the fundamental issue: how do you tackle homophobia in sport, if the word is taboo in anti-discriminatory campaigns?
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The role of local legislatures and governing bodies in overseeing the sharing of government data is far from settled, but Serpas believes that agreements with firms like Palantir warrant greater scrutiny.
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As time went on, many expected the organization to evolve into a more active regulator and testing body, separate from the I.O.C. and the various world governing bodies overseeing Olympic sports.
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The marijuana industry, as a former black-market business, still lacks the governing bodies and institutions of, say, the wine world, a situation that the Trichome Institute is hoping to remedy.
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In February, Nigel Willerton, the director of the Tennis Integrity Unit, told a British parliamentary committee that tennis's anticorruption program needed greater independence from the sport's governing bodies in the future.
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The international governing bodies for track and field and the Paralympics have said they will not restore Russian athletes' eligibility in their events until WADA has recertified the country's antidoping agency.
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The sport has faded into obscurity, but there is still a robust community of local clubs around the country, as well as national and international tournaments sanctioned by various governing bodies.
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We need more women in decision-making positions in sports governing bodies, better policies for women athletes and more opportunities for girls to play sports, wherever they are in the world.
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She's a minority at a moment when many voters are less indulgent of privilege and more determined to look at governing bodies and see faces that mirror the mosaic of America.
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Internationally, the oversight of sports governing bodies has come under intense scrutiny, including in the United States, where recent sexual abuse scandals have rocked several sports, particularly gymnastics and figure skating.
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The New Jersey senator also pledged to sign the Athletics Fair Pay Act, under which national governing bodies for professional sports would be required to compensate female athletes equally and fairly.
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The handling of abuse cases and possible unethical conduct by former executives of USA Gymnastics, USA Taekwondo and other sports governing bodies are being looked into, two people told the Journal.
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Tennis governing bodies announced an independent review of their efforts before that tournament had ended; the commission still has not reported its initial findings, but is expected to later this year.
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Sports minister Nigel Adams added in a tweet here that governing bodies had to be mindful of the impact that problem gambling can have on the most vulnerable sections of society.
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The gymnastics federation's failure to safeguard young girls was graver than financial instability or ineptitude on the playing field, which were reasons the Olympic committee used to decertify other governing bodies.
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Farrell, who said she had been sexually abused for years by an older teammate, said that solutions included more representation by athletes in sports' governing bodies and mandatory reporting to police.
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"Following recent proposals by the Greek government to spend additional fiscal resources for pensions and VAT our governing bodies have put their decisions temporarily on hold," a spokesman for the ESM said.
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In a further blow to Russia's medal hopes, two modern pentathletes and five Russian canoe sprinters - including the 2012 Olympic champion Alexander Dyachenko - were excluded by their sports' governing bodies on Tuesday.
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Dianne Feinstein, requires amateur athletics governing bodies like USA Gymnastics to report sexual abuse allegations to local or federal law enforcement, or a Justice Department-designated child-welfare agency, within 24 hours.
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BeoutQ has been accused by soccer's governing body FIFA, tennis governing bodies and other sports bodies of illegally airing content whose exclusive Middle East television rights belong to Qatar-based broadcaster beIN.
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The Russian track-and-field scandal could not demonstrate more clearly how much the enforcement of the WADA code in individual countries relies on international governing bodies' ability to protect whistle-blowers.
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In a speech at the Mormon church's semi-annual General Conference in October, M. Russell Ballard, a senior leader in one of the church's governing bodies, called for members to fight prejudice.
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Monahan, who recently reminded players that the tour had been heavily involved in the rewriting of the rules, on Wednesday strongly defended the "fantastic" U.S. Golf Association and Royal & Ancient governing bodies.
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In January of 2016, the Academy's board of governors voted to "make the Academy's membership, its governing bodies, and its voting members significantly more diverse," according to a statement from the organization.
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The proposal has split the leaders of major governing bodies in soccer, some of whom have protested Saudi support for the piracy of multimillion-dollar rights contracts owned by Qatar's beIN Sports.
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They could be seen as charming idiosyncrasies, like the changing court surfaces across the calendar, or as evidence of growing fractiousness in a sport whose governing bodies frequently fail to find consensus.
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The head-spinning nature of events brought on by the novel coronavirus has led to a rare period of collaboration among soccer's biggest leagues, clubs and governing bodies to find a solution.
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The panel issued a preliminary report in April, after which it consulted with the tennis governing bodies and their watchdog group, the Tennis Integrity Unit, about the implementation of its 12 recommendations.
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After years of lobbying, European officials could move forward on new regulations as early as this week, when representatives of the three governing bodies of the European Union meet in Strasbourg, France.
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On Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who sponsored a bill that made it mandatory for Olympic governing bodies to report sexual abuse to the police, also called for Blackmun's resignation.
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Ms. Lyons said she wanted the committee to re-evaluate its relationship with the national governing bodies of each sport and make sure it has "clear-cut authorization to intercede" when appropriate.
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Dr Carol Routledge, director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, welcomed the new guidelines but said the sport's governing bodies must go further to find any potential links between football and dementia.
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Americans believe in separation of sports and political governance: In the U.S., noninterference is codified in laws that set up independent national governing bodies for various amateur sports while incorporating professional leagues.
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Booker would also sign into law the Athletics Fair Pay Act, which would require national governing bodies, including the United States Soccer Federation, to treat and compensate female athletes fairly and equally.
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U.S. Congresswoman Diana DeGette on Monday announced legislation that would create a commission to look into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and its national governing bodies, which run the individual sports.
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Nigel Willerton, head of the Tennis Integrity Unit, told a British parliamentary committee Wednesday that he would recommend that tennis's anticorruption program have greater independence from the sport's governing bodies in the future.
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To put it another way: English football's clubs, leagues, governing bodies and broadcasters are all engaged in a spectacularly lucrative affair with the very industry that enables the type of events described above.
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The new revelations come at a crucial time for FIFA and for its president, Gianni Infantino, who has devoted much of the past year to C.A.F., one of soccer's six regional governing bodies.
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"It would be great to get a consolidation of requirements and reporting across the different governing bodies," said Grossman, whose company makes software that automates the reporting process and alleviates this pain point.
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A huge public relations offensive backing the stadium rebuilds was launched this week with rugby league, rugby union and soccer's governing bodies threatening that Sydney would lose major events if the plan foundered.
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"The tennis world is complex...there are many different governing bodies and many different associations that have the control over certain aspects of the game or tournaments," the 29-year-old Serbian said.
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Instead, it "distributes" that money to the other governing bodies that enrich themselves through the "Olympic Movement," and if those organizations find it in their interest to fund athletes, well, all the better.
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Since then, murder rates have skyrocketed, while corruption and drug trafficking have flourished as the drug cartels and local governing bodies as well as the national government melded into a single countrywide nightmare.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An independent review panel (IRP) will take at least a year to investigate allegations of corruption in tennis and the effectiveness of existing procedures, the sport's governing bodies said on Friday.
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The U.S.O.C.'s stance has been to let the governing bodies run themselves and for the Olympic committee to remain at a distance except just before and during the Winter and Summer Games.
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Governing bodies in the United States and the European Union publish their evaluations of airlines, often by country, and provide resources for fliers when determining if their carrier is on a safety blacklist.
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As climate change deniers make their way into our governing bodies, forests like the Amazon in Brazil and on the Sumatra island of Indonesia are facing an even grimmer future than previously imagined.
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Rights owners across the spectrum of sports, from FIFA to the governing bodies for tennis and track and field, have lodged complaints over the industrial scale piracy of their broadcast rights by BeoutQ.
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A report commissioned this year by the R&A, one of golf's two governing bodies, found that there was ample opportunity to increase participation in the game — by luring more women and families.
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The County Councils Network, a group of local governing bodies, warned recently of more than $1 billion in budget cuts nationwide next year, draining more money from social services, including some for children.
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Last month, Donald Trump took to Twitter to criticize Apple for not unlocking two iPhones belonging to the Pensacola shooter, another volley in the struggle between big tech and the world's governing bodies.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, and 15 co-sponsors crafted a bill that would make it a federal crime for national governing bodies to not report allegations of child sexual abuse. Opinion
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The governing bodies that oversee golf's rule book relied on a dose of common sense on Tuesday by swiftly and decisively mitigating how much video evidence can influence rules decisions at televised events.
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In the meantime, Senator (Joni) Ernst (a Republican from Iowa) and I will continue to urge the Senate to establish a special committee to investigate the US Olympic Committee and its governing bodies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The national governing bodies of 11 Olympic and Paralympic sports issued a joint statement on Thursday calling for Britain to abandon a "two-class system" of funding fixated on medal success.
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Booker would establish a new federal commission — dubbed the U.S. Commission on Integrity in Sports — to provide ongoing oversight of college athletics, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and national governing bodies.
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"Following a meeting of shareholders today, it was unanimously decided to suspend the Premier League with the intention of returning on April 4," the governing bodies for the leagues said in a statement.
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Hannah Mouncey, an Australian transgender athlete who was part of the consultation process CA carried out in drawing up the policies, said they had set the standard for the governing bodies of professional sport.
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But the proposal was met with widespread criticism from players and clubs in Spain and also faces opposition from the Spanish football federation and the sport's world and European governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA.
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As Stefanie Jones from the drug policy reform nonprofit, Drug Policy Alliance, argued in a recent blogpost, California's current rave debacle raises the question about the long-term solutions available to California's governing bodies.
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Governing bodies charged with making decisions about the technologies should put in place "foresight" capabilities to predict how and where they might be researched or used rather than reacting after the fact, he said.
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"To date we have not identified any evidence that the activities under investigation involved senior management or that any of Santander's or its subsidiaries' governing bodies were aware of these activities," said the spokesman.
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The PGA Tour, which organizes the main professional golf tours in North America, established its anti-doping program in 2008 after liaising with the other major golf tours and governing bodies around the world.
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Rachael Denhollander, a former Michigan gymnast who filed the first criminal complaint against Nassar, said after the sentencing that the case represented failures on many levels, from university athletics programs to sports governing bodies.
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Both UEFA and FIFA, the governing bodies of European and world soccer, condemned the episode, but, because it occurred in the context of a national competition, neither are authorized to impose any disciplinary measures.
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But as the sociologist Madeleine Pape, who once raced against Semenya, has argued, governing bodies like the athletics association have done this in precisely the wrong way, by validating myths and stoking athletes' fears.
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Nudged by congressional hearings after the Nassar case, Susanne Lyons, acting chief executive officer of the U.S.O.C. (she has since been named chairwoman), sent a letter to all national governing bodies on May 31.
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It could be argued that golf's governing bodies are not exactly setting the right tone on speeding up the game by tacking on six months of discussion before voting on common-sense rule changes.
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It does not impose a strict or all-encompassing code of conduct on governing bodies or operators of funds; rather it establishes an overall framework for good corporate governance within which funds should operate.
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They're a main reason Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, decided to introduce a bill that would make it mandatory for national governing bodies of Olympic sports to report sexual assault to the police.
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Boxing in 2017 exists within an exoskeleton of byzantine regulations, endless governing bodies, conflicting ranking systems, carny promoters, a heavyweight division mostly on life support, and massive risk of brain damage to its athletes.
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In those letters, then USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus asked that the USOC create programs across all national governing bodies at a local level to protect young athletes from abuse, according to USA Today.
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The leaders of tennis's multiple governing bodies — often at cross purposes through the years — have been meeting at Melbourne Park, the site of the Australian Open, which has been overshadowed by reports of match fixing.
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Ignoring calls to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics, the IOC left it up to individual sport governing bodies to determine if Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in last year's Rio Summer Games.
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Specifically, MegaBots will be working with Latham Watkins Partner Christopher D. Brearton, who represents the International Olympic Committee, and has helped organized leagues and governing bodies in sports including the NBA, MLB, NFL and others.
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The IRP was established by the sport's governing bodies following media reports criticizing the TIU for not adequately investigating some 16 players repeatedly flagged up over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.
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I would recommend we start by examining and acting on three areas of critical importance: Governing bodies need to operate with agility and adapt with speed and poise to the evolving needs of its citizens.
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For years, top soccer officials have been accused of using bribes and payoffs to profit from their roles overseeing the billions of dollars FIFA and other governing bodies generate through tournaments like the World Cup.
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A row between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over the broadcasting of the World Cup soccer tournament shows no signs of dying down, with soccer's European and international governing bodies now heavily involved in the dispute.
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The World Baseball Softball Confederation, an organization conceived in 2013 expressly to unite the governing bodies of both sports in order to facilitate a return to the Olympics, would have preferred to see eight teams.
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"It's about senior management teams and governing bodies understanding that there are a lot of facilities in schools that are separated — changing rooms and toilets and uniforms are very gender-specific," she told the Independent.
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On the other end was the Legislative Assembly, where the governing bodies for Punjab and Haryana meet twice a year and the interior is decorated with cloud-shaped panels that contain cotton for sound absorption.
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"What has been accomplished does not match the role or scope of women's involvement in making revolution and change, and that's evident to us from the weak presence of women in governing bodies," she said.
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"What has been accomplished does not match the role or scope of women's involvement in making revolution and change, and that's evident to us from the weak presence of women in governing bodies," she said.
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The commission has studied the antidoping systems of countries like France, Germany and Britain, Mr. Smirnov said, conducting seminars for the national governing bodies of various sports and deliberating about how to change cultural mentalities.
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But around the world, the governing bodies of golf have been working hard to make the game more affordable, and that has attracted a new set of players and increased the demand for golf homes.
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The US Olympic Committee has taken steps to address this, including opening the US Center for SafeSport, now an independent nonprofit, which oversees abuse reports and education and training for all 49 Olympic governing bodies.
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FORDE, Norway, April 15 (Reuters) - Governing bodies of sports who want the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to catch and punish cheats for them will have to wait for two years, says WADA President Craig Reedie.
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Kicker will be sanctioned at a later date, the TIU said, and will not be granted credentials to enter or compete in any professional tennis event sanctioned by the governing bodies of tennis in the meantime.
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The rules: International protocols from the sport's governing bodies say that players who show any features of a head concussion during a World Cup match should be immediately withdrawn and assessed by sideline health care personnel.
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"I would say there is more unilateral behavior and discord in our sport among the governing bodies than I've seen in the sport in 20 years," Wimbledon chief Phillip Brook told a small group of reporters.
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This means that tracing the line of succession down from John L. Sullivan to the modern era with no regard for belts or governing bodies, only for victories and defeats, Spinks was still the world champion.
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For too long now, as the stench of scandal has wafted through the Olympic Games, international soccer and other global sports, governing bodies have reacted timidly, throwing out a bad egg or two but little else.
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Yet even in the face of a state-run doping programme affecting hundreds of athletes, the IOC would not ban the Russians entirely, but instead kicked the issue down to the governing bodies of individual sports.
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Those instructions were not necessarily interpreted uniformly by the governing bodies of various sports, with some ratifying all Russian athletes within hours, as tennis did, and others deliberating for the past week and seeking further guidance.
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"We are in a toxic environment for sport at the moment, in terms of it's an easy target for people to have a go with recent allegations at other governing bodies," Kermode told reporters in Melbourne.
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Some of the debate has been settled for the time being by the sport's major governing bodies, who say that transgender athletes cannot be denied the chance to participate -- as long as they meet certain criteria.
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Played on every continent including Antarctica, soccer is the world's most popular and lucrative sport, which has led governing bodies like FIFA and UEFA to launch ever newer competitions to attract more sponsorship and broadcast money.
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It is a great question, one that golf's governing bodies have been hotly debating since the emergence in the past decade of books crammed with dizzyingly intricate high-tech data for each hole on a course.
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Minutes after Parliament defeated the plan, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, one of the European Union's governing bodies, announced that, in light of the vote, he was calling a council meeting on April 10.
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" Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, one of the European Union's governing bodies, vowed to work with the U.S. to end "brutality" in Syria and blasted the Assad administration's alleged chemical strikes as "barbaric.
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Russia, Taylor, added, needed to "pull a rabbit out of the hat" if it was to avoid facing new penalties, which under new regulations trigger a process that sports governing bodies are compelled to abide by.
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Despite the initiatives by the sport's governing bodies, N.H.L. teams, and sport-focused charities, there is still concern that ice hockey will remain off-limits to much of the Canadian population because of its price tag.
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Later this month, leaders of the U.S.O.C. and of several national governing bodies of individual sports are scheduled to appear in front of Congress to explain how they work together to address complaints of sexual abuse.
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He means the sort that might begin to repair the "stained" reputation of football's governing bodies: things like term limits and transparency, the policies that helped elect him president of UEFA by a landslide in September.
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Neither Adidas nor the IAAF would confirm the report, but such a move would fit in with a trend towards sponsors like Adidas feeling less bound to sports governing bodies as the ultimate gatekeepers to fans.
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In the wake of the Nassar case, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, introduced a bill that would make it mandatory for the national governing bodies of Olympic sports to report sexual assault to the police.
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FORDE, Norway (Reuters) - The governing bodies of sports who want the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to catch and punish cheats for them will have to wait for two years, WADA president Craig Reedie said on Friday.
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"The target of a best ever Olympic Winter Games is indicative of just how far the athletes and their national governing bodies have progressed over the past four years," said Team GB Chef de Mission Mike Hay.
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If we are to feel confident in the assertion that children are totally safe from sexual abuse in youth football, then governing bodies, clubs and grassroots organisations must be made subject to legal requirements that prevent exploitation.
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In the wake of the damning Mclaren report into Russian doping at the Sochi Olympics the International Olympic Committee decided against a blanket ban on Russia at the Games, leaving the individual sport's governing bodies to decide.
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The Academy will be implementing a "sweeping series of substantive changes" in order to make its "membership, its governing bodies and its voting members significantly more diverse" starting later this year, it said in a statement Friday.
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He was arrested in Zurich along with six other soccer officials in May 2015 as the U.S. Justice Department unveiled the blockbuster case, which has sent Switzerland-based FIFA and other governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis.
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There is also the case that in terms of logistics, it would be hard imposing such a rule over a sport as globalised as boxing in the first place with governing bodies varying by countries and regions.
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With the I.O.C. no longer willing to cover those premiums and the International Ice Hockey Federation unable to cover the cost by itself, the governing bodies are reaching out to all parties involved to find a resolution.
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Though it is being used for second-guessing on television, Irwin said that the system had not been optimized for official use and that it had never been officially tested on clay by the game's governing bodies.
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"The two major governing bodies in the field have analyzed these studies and determined that they were of very poor quality and did not have proper quality controls and did not use good scientific method," Laursen says.
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Joined by colleagues in academia, industry advocates and clinical practitioners, we discussed implications of proposals and pending legislation related to additional regulatory oversight that would position governing bodies, including the FDA, to oversee and approve new LDPs.
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Increased drug testing in the past decade by the industry's governing bodies, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) and its Irish equivalent, the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB), has reduced the amount of doping in the sport.
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Without a seat at the bargaining table and no voice in the legislative process, athletes will continue to face the consequences of a rule designed to place athletic governing bodies beyond the reach of the justice system.
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For the third time in less than a year — the fourth will come in June — one of soccer's largest and most powerful governing bodies will rubber-stamp the election of its leader in a one-candidate election.
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The heads of those sports joined Ms. Lyons and testified on Wednesday to a House subcommittee investigating how the Nassar scandal happened and determining what the U.S.O.C. and the governing bodies are doing to prevent future abuse.
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The sport will continue to work with its regional partner and local authorities to study the viability of potential alternative dates should the situation improve, the Formule E and FIA governing bodies said in statements on Sunday.
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Russia could be banned from next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, as well as soccer's World Cup, track and field's world championships and dozens of other competitions in sports whose governing bodies have signed WADA's doping code.
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That kind of power shift would be significant, carrying with it huge implications for current competitions like the Champions League, but also for the influence of the continental governing bodies that have long managed the club game.
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In the past, the Olympic committee had failed to prioritize the issue of sexual assault and appeared to turn a blind eye to the issue by handing it off to the governing bodies of each Olympic sport.
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Theological, ethical and legal debates about abortion continue in religious circles, governing bodies and political campaigns, and they have influenced elections, legislation and the lives of ordinary people through films, books, periodicals, the internet and other forums.
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The senators' announcement comes two days before the House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to receive written explanations of the handling of sexual misconduct cases by USA Gymnastics (USAG) and other governing bodies of organized sports.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Golf's governing bodies have introduced a new local rule to eliminate the penalty when a ball is accidentally moved on the green, the scenario that overshadowed Dustin Johnson's maiden major victory at this year's U.S. Open.
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Members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic communities, as well as individuals and national governing bodies, may submit their nomination forms, naming up to five Olympians, three Paralympians, two legends, one team, one coach and one special contributor.
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"The thrust of our question, however, involves whether or not the USOC sees the nature of these subjects as being important enough to offer recommendations or requirements to all (national governing bodies)," Wielgus wrote in the second letter.
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The Spanish football federation (RFEF) has put the brakes on the league's plans by demanding more information on January's game, which must also be approved by the United States soccer federation and regional governing bodies UEFA and CONCACAF.
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MORE a landslide victory in 2008, opting to give that party power in all three governing bodies, with the hopes they would hear their concerns and do better than Bush and his majority Republicans did for eight years.
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The American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has put pressure on its members as well as governing bodies to classify marijuana alongside alcohol and tobacco as dangerous substances for use during pregnancy, citing insufficient data regarding its effects.
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Algolux's system brings the company's machine learning and computer vision technologies to users looking to build an end-to-end solution, incorporating various regulations from governing bodies and safety features designed to help systems operating in tricky environments.
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Huge crowds have attended women's games in England, Italy and Spain recently and defender Nilla Fischer told Reuters that fans, players, sponsors and governing bodies would all have to work together to ensure better pay for female players.
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Security representatives of the governing bodies will speak in a telephone call that will also be attended by India's Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi, after which AITA will decide whether the Indian team travels to Islamabad, Chatterjee added.
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The Stepanovs said on Tuesday that the IOC's stance of leaving governing bodies to decide whether Russians could take part in the Games meant there would be Russian athletes in Rio whose cheating had previously been covered up.
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Recent corruption scandals involving the world governing bodies of soccer and athletics have thrown those sports into turmoil and tennis was not keen to follow them down that path, Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Chairman Chris Kermode said.
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The American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has put pressure on its members as well as governing bodies to classify marijuana alongside alcohol and tobacco as dangerous substances for use during pregnancy, citing insufficient data regarding its effects.
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LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - The British government has called a meeting with sports governing bodies and broadcasters on Monday to discuss how they would cope with a broader outbreak of coronavirus, two people familiar with the situation said.
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Serbia refuses to recognize the independence of its former province Kosovo whose 1.8 million people are mostly ethnic Albanians and opposed Kosovo's ultimately successful bids to join UEFA and FIFA, the governing bodies of European and World soccer.
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FIFA and World Athletics, the global governing bodies of two of the biggest sports in the Olympics, had been absent from the IOC since the departure of their respective former presidents Sepp Blatter and Lamine Diack in 2015.
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"UEFA statutes say that countries must be recognized by the United Nations," he says seated behind his desk in the crowded complex that the FFK shares with the governing bodies of a handful of other sports here in Pristina.
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The USOC's new initiatives include additional funding to investigate abuse allegations and provide support for victims, and an outside review of the governance structure and potential cultural issues within the USOC and the national governing bodies of individual sports.
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But if the vote is an indication that anti-doping efforts are yet again being suppressed by the needs of governing bodies like the IOC, then cheating officials will continue to see WADA as little more than a pest.
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That explanation came on the same day that tennis's multiple governing bodies announced more details on the independent review panel set up to investigate allegations of corruption in professional tennis and the effectiveness of existing anticorruption practices and procedures.
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Tennis governing bodies set up an independent review panel last month following media reports criticising the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) for not adequately investigating some 16 players repeatedly flagged over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.
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Russia has already been stripped of the right to host next year's bobsleigh world championships in Sochi in March and a speed skating event scheduled for Chelyabinsk in the same month by the governing bodies of the respective sports.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to the United Nations accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Wednesday of trying to partition the country by setting up local governing bodies in areas seized from Islamic State, Russian news agencies reported.
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The game transforms players into a wizard tapped to help out Harry and an original character named Constance Pickering, both of whom work at the Ministry of Magic (one of the most important governing bodies in J.K. Rowling's book series).
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"We were still skint, still trying to persuade governing bodies that a kid from Scotland could be a proper tennis champion, and I was still battling the perception that I was not much more than a really pushy mum," added Judy.
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Although Taiwo is one of the top competitors in the world in his event, like many athletes bound for Rio he made it on a shoestring budget, often working several jobs and receiving subsidies from friends, family, and governing bodies.
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MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to the United Nations accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Wednesday of trying to partition the country by setting up local governing bodies in areas seized from Islamic State, Russian news agencies reported.
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The moves follow harsh criticism of the organization charged with overseeing all U.S. Olympic sports governing bodies from athletes like Aly Raisman, who said the USOC "shamelessly" took credit for a "few USAG resignations" in a statement following those resignations.
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The U.S. investigation of soccer has sent Switzerland-based FIFA and other governing bodies into an unprecedented crisis, as executive committee members and national federation presidents have been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for awarding broadcast and marketing contracts.
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Starting in about 2008, Trujillo paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to high-ranking officials of FIFA and other governing bodies, in connection with media and marketing contracts as well as international friendly matches, according to the news release.
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The governing bodies of the two sports rely on their world championship events as vital sources of income, but both released public statements signaling their intention to work with the I.O.C. and, if necessary, to shift the dates of their events.
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With four different governing bodies all anointing champions in each weight class—and one of them naming up to three for each division—it is difficult to say who is the best fighter in the world at any given weight.
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The decision highlights issues that often confront governing bodies for various sports: how to balance technological innovation with the history and integrity of competition, and how to apply those rules to participants who pursue the same activities simply for fun.
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So for soccer's governing bodies, including FIFA and UEFA, which oversees European soccer, the episode underscored the difficulties of clamping down on the racist abuse of players of color in an era of rising far-right forces around the world.
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JAKARTA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Esports must streamline its governing bodies and avoid over-commercialisation before it can graduate to a full medal event at the next Asian Games, Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Director General Husain Al-Musallam has told Reuters.
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Raúl Castro, who still leads the country's most powerful institutions — the armed forces and the Communist Party — has chosen Mr. Díaz-Canel to preside over two of Cuba's highest governing bodies, the Council of State and the Council of Ministers.
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There has been not a peep from any key Saudi allies or international governing bodies like the U.N. That silence has a lot to do with the fact that bin Salman is holding an almost unbeatable political hand at the moment.
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The other three—the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. Championship, and the Open Championship (known as the British Open)—are organized by various governing bodies and rotate among an evolving roster of courses, some of which are open to the public.
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Organizers had also been alerted by an email from a TV viewer and golf's governing bodies changed the rules to limit the impact of video replays where evidence is revealed that could not be reasonably seen with the naked eye.
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As groups of athletes organize, they are increasingly forcing national governing bodies to support their cause — an uncomfortable position for United States sports officials, who need the votes of global Olympic officials to win the right to host the 2024 Games.
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The offer, a package that includes almost $200 million in guarantees to the invited teams and their governing bodies, was made Tuesday in a letter from U.S. Soccer's president, Carlos Cordeiro, to his counterparts at the 10 South American federations.
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The International Olympic Committee has left it up to the world governing bodies of each sport to decide if Russian teams can go to Rio after the World Anti-doping Agency said there was a state-sponsored programme of doping in Russian sport.
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All of that said, merchandise and ratings and, oh yes, championship results should not be driving the question of equality -- we cannot fully assess the impact of the women's game until it is supported, whether by national federations or international governing bodies.
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The bill would also require national governing bodies to create policies to ensure athletes would not be left alone with an adult who is not a parent, and make it easier for member gyms to report and share allegations of abuse amongst themselves.
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Publishing its findings in BHM Journal, a research team led by Dr. Suerie Moon from the Harvard Department of Global Health and Population identified a number of serious weaknesses within the strategies of governing bodies and health organizations tasked with preparing for epidemics.
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The decision, which changed the game for candidates seeking federal office, also paved the way for other mothers at the state and local level to petition their respective governing bodies to allow them to campaign funds to cover their child care expenses.
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Yet the constant drama of governing bodies saw Martinez stripped of his WBO belt in June and it was slapped onto a televised undercard fight between two promising but lesser known boxers: 23-year-old Danny Jacobs and 30-year-old Dmitry Pirog.
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For example, the Independent European Female Football Federation governed the sport in Europe in the late 1960s and organized the first two Women's World Championships (1970 and 1971), while in Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay women's leagues created their own national governing bodies.
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What this means in the smallest of nutshells, is that the Australian government has proposed that any convicted terrorist who is found to be a danger to society can be held for as long or as little as governing bodies see fit.
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"The findings of guilt and imposition of the lifetime suspensions means that with immediate effect both players are prohibited from playing in or attending any sanctioned events organized or recognized by the governing bodies of the sport," the TIU said in a statement.
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The governing bodies of the two provinces would step in from time to time with a new piece of legislation to quell the tension, but inevitably motivations would be called into question and the fighting and the burning would begin all over again.
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The CAS ruling underpinned the concept of punishing the innocent along with the guilty as sport's governing bodies wrestle with how to confront a sophisticated and widespread doping and cover-up system that involves athletes, anti-doping officials and senior government officers.
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While the allegations pertain only to soccer, Sheikh Ahmad's position straddling both FIFA and the IOC—and particularly his close connection with IOC president Thomas Bach—creates something of a bridge between the two sports governing bodies, known for their rampant corruption.
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PR: Which would be huge, because if we get that recognition, it's less about when we're going to be on TV and playing and more about the governing bodies per state then unlock resources and give it out on a pro rata basis.
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"What made me sad was those two governing bodies putting into question the official's job, and they didn't support Carlos or officiating in general," said Enric Molina, a former chair umpire and head of officiating at the I.T.F. who is now an agent.
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Not just gymnastics SafeSport, which aims to prevent abuse at all levels of sport, has a code of conduct that's now part of the requirements for USA Gymnastics -- as well as the 48 governing bodies for all other Olympic and Paralympic sports.
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The I.T.F., one of the seven governing bodies in professional tennis, organizes the Pro Circuit with hundreds of tournaments for juniors and professionals on five continents, many contested by players with little or no hope of ever earning a living at tennis.
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Those lists are now kept by some of the 48 governing bodies, and another list has been made public by the United States Center for SafeSport, a national nonprofit organization that investigates and provides prevention education about sex abuse claims in sports.
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As a result, Senators Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, and Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, are set to introduce a bill today that would hold the Olympic committee and national sports governing bodies to more stringent legal accountability for failing to protect athletes.
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We need to have principles and standards, and governing bodies, and people voting on things and algorithms being checked, something similar to the F.D.A. So, for me it's not as simple as creating a more diverse data set and things are fixed.
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BRUSSELS — Donald Tusk was appointed on Thursday to a second term as president of the European Council, one of the European Union's governing bodies, despite objections from the government of his own country, Poland, that had created an unprecedented confrontation in Brussels.
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That's why the new bill — which would require amateur-athletics governing bodies and those who work at their facilities to report sex-abuse allegations to local or federal law enforcement, or a child-welfare agency designated by the Justice Department — is so important.
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Movies and especially television series that lie outside the safe or more obvious choices have a better shot at earning awards recognition if they appeal to the 90-member HFPA, as opposed to the larger governing bodies behind the Emmys and the Oscars.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee's year-long investigation found a number of failures and breakdowns in the system to protect athletes including how allegations of sexual misconduct were handled by the USOC and its National Governing Bodies (NGBs), which run individual sports.
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Nearly all the big names were grilled about their reaction to the match-fixing report, which broke a couple of hours before play started and had echoes of the stories which created turmoil last year at the governing bodies of world soccer and athletics.
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And these two guys—sport governing bodies and governments—ought to be ashamed of themselves, because they've allowed criminals, who have not closed their eyes and have seen everything, to take complete advantage of the vulnerabilities of sport betting and therefore to rape sport.
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"These risks should not be taken lightly, in a context where the European project is endangered by the rise of populism, nurtured by widespread perceptions of European citizens that their governing bodies are working towards the interests of a class of happy few," he said.
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"The group's governing bodies feel an obligation to study any possibility to strengthen its position thanks to assets that could fit the group's strategy and bring an enhanced service to the group's clients, while reinforcing its competitiveness for the future," Publicis said in a statement.
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As youth football participation rates plummet and athletic governing bodies are being held (somewhat) more responsible for the effect the sport has on players' health, sports organizations are making changes that they hope can make football safer and curb the criticism directed at the game.
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And unlike many of their predecessors, who boxed during a time when matches were arranged and fought through individual promoters and businesses, these women were limited by the governing bodies of the boxing commission, who deemed them unfit to represent the sport of boxing.
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The U.S.O.C. does not release data on other racial and ethnic groups because the national governing bodies for individual sports collect and report the data and have done so inconsistently (the sports ask but do not require athletes to report their racial and ethnic identities).
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A statute change announced this week meant delegates from soccer's 211 national governing bodies did not have to take a vote at the FIFA Congress in Paris to show their support for the Swiss-born Infantino as he sought a full four-year term.
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Bouchard's lawyer, Benedict Morelli, showed examples of informational and instructional materials from various tennis governing bodies — the WTA, the Grand Slam committee and the United States Open — none of which mention any rule prohibiting players from entering the training room without a trainer present.
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A new report offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of the challenges to global electoral integrity posed by the onslaught of misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation campaigns, and calls for a series of reforms from platforms, politicians, and international governing bodies.
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It has chosen instead to cut much less expensive deals to outfit the athletes in several national governing bodies, which are groups that oversee specific sports in various countries such as USA Gymnastics, USA Boxing, Rugby Canada and beach volleyball in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Finding himself mistreated one too many times by the duplicity of his opponents and the governing bodies that enable them, he is reimagining himself as a great righter of historical wrongs, both for his own sake and for the sake of the sport he loves.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said Thursday it had sent requests for information to the U.S. Olympic Committee and 48 national governing bodies of various sports and Michigan State University, expanding the committee's investigation into sexual abuse within organized sports.
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"Following recent proposals by the Greek government to spend additional fiscal resources for pensions and VAT (Value Added Tax) our governing bodies have put their decisions temporarily on hold," a spokesperson of the European Stability Mechanism – a euro zone financial assistant agency - told CNBC via email.
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The FIVB, one of the more progressive sports governing bodies on the planet, has been forced into a position where it must either sanction one of the best volleyball teams in the world for a political and human rights issue, or continue to allow the status quo.
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On Tuesday, the leaders of 19 National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs)—including those of France, Germany, the United States, and Canada—concluded a "special summit" in Dublin by asking the world's governing bodies of sports to, among other things, bar Russia from hosting any international sporting events.
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Fueled by fears of big, burly men masquerading as women to gain an athletic advantage, governing bodies like the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federation created ridiculous and humiliating sex-testing procedures that remained in place for decades despite little scientific support.
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"If you watch the World Cup game from 20 years ago versus the last World Cup, it does appear that the governing bodies of soccer have allowed the game to become more physical over time in a way that increases the risk of concussion," she said.
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Although antidoping authorities like Mr. Tygart have lobbied for a blanket ban on Russia's Olympic Committee, which was implicated in the elaborate doping program detailed in this week's report, the I.O.C. has the option of deferring to individual sports' governing bodies to make decisions about Russian athletes.
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"We're just excited to continue to see Hopman Cup through because it is a great way to have the men and women playing," said Haggerty, who spearheaded a massive overhaul of the Davis Cup format last year despite strong resistance from governing bodies, including Tennis Australia.
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Those seriously mixed emotions were an appropriate finish to a season in which tennis had much to celebrate (new stars like Naomi Osaka, enduring stars like Roger Federer and Serena Williams) but also much to lament as its governing bodies failed repeatedly to find common ground.
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If he is to follow through on his promise this week to "wage war" against the racists — one that, as he said, needs to involve an alliance of leagues, clubs, governing bodies, governments and everyone else — then he needs to use the true armory at his disposal.
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This issue could be made simpler, according to Dr. Myron Genel, a Yale professor emeritus and longtime consultant to the I.O.C.'s medical commission, if the governing bodies would finally listen to the advice that he and others had given them more than two decades ago.
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But none of the governing bodies at the hearing received as much criticism as U.S.A. Gymnastics, whose new chief executive, Kerry Perry, spoke publicly about Dr. Nassar's case for the first time and said what so many of his victims would like to hear: I'm sorry.
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Following uproar over the lack of diversity among this year's acting nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be implementing a "sweeping series of substantive changes" in order to make its "membership, its governing bodies and its voting members significantly more diverse," the group announced Friday.
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Anyone legally employed (from volunteers to medical personnel) by the 49 national governing bodies for each of the Olympic sports is required to follow SafeSport's code of conduct, which forbids sexual misconduct, one-on-one meetings with minors, and gift-giving — all of which were involved in Nassar's crimes.
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Having watched how ineffective organizations like the World Anti-Doping Association and governing bodies like the International Association of Athletics Federations were in policing PED use, a number of MUT athletes have undertaken a grassroots movement to keep their sport clean, with a decidedly different—and optimistic—approach.
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By 2016, FIFA had assigned an "inactive" status to 10 national teams across South America after they were neglected by their teams' governing bodies — the status effectively revoked any world ranking they had worked to achieve, and this recent tournament was their first time on the global stage.
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The victory does offer some insight into the newly focused company, as well as notching up yet another bit of bad news for chipmaker Qualcomm, which has suffered a string of defeats with governing bodies across the globe, along with on-going battles with one-time allies like Apple.
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But Walmart's statement reveals yet another key selling point: Tesla's Semi can help with corporate sustainability efforts, and companies all over the world have committed to reducing emissions and lowering their ecological impact, whether due to internal targets and image considerations, or requirements from regulators and governing bodies.
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Reading back through that Babel story — he would, a week or so later, become the first player ever to be fined for saying something on Twitter; in time, that would become a rich source of revenues for governing bodies the world over — it is striking how naïve we were.
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Thanks to WADA's standard code on compliance, the governing bodies for various sports are likely to implement the ban in a similar manner, says Marjolaine Viret, a sports lawyer in Geneva—in contrast to 2016, when each was left to its own devices, creating regulatory discrepancies (see chart above).
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The Oceania Football Confederation, one of FIFA's six regional governing bodies, threw its collective support behind a bid by the United States, Mexico and Canada to host the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday, putting another powerful shoulder behind the effort to bring soccer's biggest event back to North America.
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While college level sports can all be regulated by one governing body, the NCAA, policies for public high schools vary by state, and smaller venue sports club and camps can be even harder to standardize, as they have many governing bodies and may be broken down by sport, Casa said.
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The measure would also require personnel with the USOPC or any national governing bodies to forward all reports of child abuse to law enforcement and hold USOPC legally liable if they fail to make sure any coaches or trainers found guilty of abuse are banned from work with the Olympic movement.
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The company, known as SUM, also controls the marketing rights for U.S. Soccer and the Mexican national team, which allows it to profit not only from the matches and tournaments it controls but also from its partnerships with national federations, regional and global governing bodies, corporate sponsors and television networks.
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While Semenya's lawyers have vowed to fight on, and while the fuzzy wording of the court's judgment adds a further layer of confusion to what is already complex terrain to navigate, sports governing bodies that have so far watched from the sidelines may soon be forced to tackle the issue.
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But there are also letters from organizations with an interest in the outcome, and from others widely viewed as friendly to Russia: ice hockey's governing body, for example, and the European Olympic Committees and the Global Association of International Sports Federations, an influential umbrella group for governing bodies and event organizers.
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"We bring this case to the attention of our colleagues and the wider public as an example of the threat posed to museums by the censorship of ideas and programmes by governing bodies, the very people who are supposed to encourage, promote and protect the institutions they lead," they explained.
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"Our presence will be significantly higher than it was in London in 22012, with four times as many athletes representing national governing bodies from more than 2500 different countries competing in Under Armour apparel or footwear," UA Chairman and CEO Kevin Plank said last week during the company's second-quarter earnings call.
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The proposed bill would give athletes a larger voice in governance of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee and require the committee to contribute $20 million annually to the operating costs of the US Center for SafeSport -- the agency that oversees sexual misconduct and other abuse allegations reported to national governing bodies.
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The Academy's president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs revealed she was "frustrated" by the lack of diversity in January, followed soon after by the organization announcing it would make a series of fundamental changes to make the Academy's governing bodies and membership "significantly more diverse", while doubling the number of diverse members by 2020.
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Watch some more video from VICE: Doug Jones is a really great example of how black women have come together to both upset the status quo and also to hold governing bodies and people who govern accountable when they do the wrong things and to support them when they do the right things.
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All too aware of the credibility crises afflicting the global governing bodies of soccer and track and field, tennis's leaders agreed under duress in January to authorize an independent review of the sport's integrity and make the exceptional commitment to adopt all of the review panel's recommendations when they are issued in 2017.
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"From my point of view, as a former minister of sport, president of Olympic committee — we made a lot of mistakes," he said, echoing Mr. Putin's broad denials of a state-sponsored system and noting that he would defer to the global governing bodies of each sport to rule on the evidence.
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"The governing bodies of Renault are actively working to find the best solution for the future governance of the group, with a view to preserving the company's interests and strengthening the Renault-Nissan Alliance," Renault said in a statement issued in the name of acting chairman Philippe Lagayette and another senior director.
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Here's a video from Killer Infographics explaining what these cuts will end: In order for Trump's budget to pass, it still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives which might make changes, the Senate, which might make changes, and then, through a reconciliation process, the two governing bodies must agree.
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"We appreciate the willingness of these athletes — who share in our determination to root out abuse in youth sport governing bodies — to share their stories," Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas and the chairman of the subcommittee, said, "and aid in our investigation to protect all U.S.O.C. athletes, at all levels, in all sports."
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" The company explains that, while it intends not to obstruct the investigation, releasing the records to governing bodies would violate consumer privacy rights, citing a ruling the company was involved in back in 2010, "[t]he fear of government tracking and censoring one's reading, listening and viewing choices chills the exercise of First Amendment rights.
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It would also eliminate a requirement that athlete board members have competed in the last decade and require greater oversight over national governing bodies from the USOPC and require the USOPC to pay the Center for SafeSport, which is responsible for investigating allegations of sexual abuse against athletes, $20 million annually for operating costs.
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He started his own talk show on Current TV; pulled in some $4 million from his wineries, hotels, and restaurants; traded silver bars; and had a bad track record of showing up for state business, skipping about half of his most important meetings with state governing bodies during his term, according to the LA Times.
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Haggerty also said last week that the game's governing bodies had now agreed in principle that it is time to change policy and announce provisional bans after a player tested positive rather than waiting for each case to be adjudicated before releasing the information (and then only in the case when a violation had been confirmed).
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At the 21900 historically white sororities that make up the century-old National Panhellenic Conference — and to be clear, this group does not include academic or multicultural sororities, like the popular African-American or Latino groups, which have their own governing bodies — enrollment has increased more than 403 percent over the last decade, outpacing the growth in college enrollment.
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Yet the sheer scope of the lists, and the inconsistencies within them because of differing standards among the organizations, raise plenty of questions — not the least of which is whether an effort to collect and publish the names is even legal, given that until recently, people were disciplined by the governing bodies, each with its own brand of justice.
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That's when Sport England — which oversees national governing bodies for various sports — began contributing to the golf body in four-year increments matching the Olympic cycle, with a total of 2017 million pounds ($225 million) from April 230 to cover the four years through March 21, including £3.3 million devoted to producing junior and amateur champions.
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As Saudi Arabia continues to deny that it is hosting the network, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, organizations like La Liga and England's Premier League and even soccer governing bodies like UEFA and FIFA have found tackling the issue almost impossible, mainly because lawyers in Saudi Arabia have refused to take on them on as clients.
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That both England and Scotland rebelled — against a rule their governing bodies, both members of soccer's rule-making organization, the International Football Association Board, themselves had introduced — offered a powerful example of the extent to which soccer is now used as a vehicle for remembrance, a stage co-opted by the country on which to perform its national grief.
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The R&A and the United States Golf Association, the governing bodies of golf, unveiled proposed changes last month to pare the cumbersome rulebook, but many in golf feel they should add one rule posthaste: The sport should not allow a television viewer who contacts officials about a rules infraction to affect the outcome of a tournament.
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Two years ago, after the World Bridge Federation banned the Coughing Doctors from competition, the overwhelming majority of responders to a poll on Bridgewinners said that, in proven cases of cheating, titles should be stripped from the cheaters' teammates as well as from the cheaters themselves—a position that players and governing bodies in the past haven't always embraced.
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The United Nations' International Bioethics Committee and, in the United States, the 2009-17 Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues are just two governing bodies that have sought to develop principles and guidelines for safe and ethical medical research in areas such as stem cell therapies, organ donation and harvesting, genetic testing, cloning and animal to human transplants.
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To reach that point, however, has been a case study of what soccer is in the 21st century, of all that it has become, that is hard to beat: a story of vested interests and power grabs, of broadcasters dictating what is on their screens, and of governments, and governing bodies, running a sport not for its own sake but for their own good.
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Now that U.S.A. Gymnastics' latest abuse scandal has escalated into a crisis — more than 22007 gymnasts have come forward with sexual abuse allegations against Larry Nassar, a former national gymnastics team doctor who worked in all levels of the sport, including with Olympians, from 1995 to 2015 — the old model of how national sports governing bodies deal with sex abuse has finally been deemed inadequate.
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While WADA doesn't have the power to impose bans on athletes, its recommendations to governing bodies have resulted in such actions being taken previously — in November, for example, Russian track and field athletes were suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations upon a similar call by the agency, meaning they cannot compete in Rio, although that ban is now being contested by Russia.
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The letter further cites the president's praise of more nationalist figures and governments over governing bodies like the EU. "Such moves play into the hands of rival global powers and can only lead to greater fragmentation rather than much needed increased cooperation," the letter said, according to the AP. The letter was sent a short time after it was reported that the U.S. had downgraded the EU ambassador's diplomatic status.
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That is the true image cast by the revelations of the last week, one that has ramifications far beyond tribal self-interest: of not just one club, but of a whole host of them that believe the rules should be altered to fit their needs; of teams so inflated by success that they can now casually disregard the diktats of their governing bodies; of teams too big to fail, beyond control.
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