Ioc Quotes

IOC member and future president Lord Killanin sent a packet of critical letters to US Olympics official Clifford Buck and exclaimed: “I fear these political, social and technical problems in Colorado are not helping the Olympic Movement! The letters seem reasonable and not cranky!”17

For instance, you may have different implementations of a Logger in development vs test vs production environments, simply by supplying different configuration files. Such approach is known as Inversion of Control (IoC). The name reflects the fact that your code no longer fully controls the behavior of your application, and that control is being delegated to an external configuration file, or to a framework[19].

Air Force THOR WS-315-A, IOC

It was the USSR, as an emerging basketball power in the 1950s, that first called on Olympic leaders to officially add women's basketball to the program as a medal sport, a half century after the Fort Shaw girls demonstrated the game in St. Louis. Their first attempt came during a June 1955 meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, where the Soviets asked delegates to vote on the adding women's competitions in volleyball, basketball, speed skating, and rowing, all of which were already open to male athletes.

It was also absolutely clear that complicit in all this were the IAAF and the IOC, to the extent that they were aware of the problem and they did nothing about it. If they had wanted to do something about it, they would have done out-of-competition testing. Their in-competition testing was a complete waste of time.’ Few would disagree. But it raises an obvious question: why was the biggest fish of them all caught in Seoul?

Impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper,” read a section of the IOC’s report following the Stockholm Games on women’s competitions. Even

Only with the London games of 1908 did the now familiar model of official gold, silver and bronze medals, awarded on the day they were won, emerge. Even then, the ceremony lacked drama. There was no podium, no flags, and no music, just the gruff words of IOC grandees and floral bouquets. Flags and music arrived in 1928, but there was still no podium.