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Protection of Journalists' Sources and Materials
2012-07-20
National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
Advice offered by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to all journalists who are covering the Olympic Games which are due to start in London on 27 July 2012.
Sources welcomes Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
2009-06-29
Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA)
Sources welcomes a new member, Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA).

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Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
Vltchek, Andre
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Sterling, Rick
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
Content Magazine - Number 22
August 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972
Content Magazine
Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Felicity Arbuthnot
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
Going for Gold: A History of Olympic Controversies
Article
2009
RandomHistory.com
While the Olympics serve to contribute to mutual understanding and finding commonality in difference, from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebrations in the twent...
Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee
Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports
Sterling, Rick
Article
2017
Dissident Voice
Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency...
Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Graham, Stephen
Article
2012
The Guardian
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Mickleburgh, Rod
Article
2009
Globe and Mail
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, wh...
Russia misses out while former drug cheats take their place in Rio
Article
2016
RT
While Russia’s track and field team, including athletes with no doping history, sit out the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there's a host of athletes who will be allowed to compete in Brazil despite having h...

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Content Magazine - Number 22
August 1972
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1972


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