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Chicago on Fast Track for Olympics Guarantee

3/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics could have a $1.4 billion guarantee in place by the end of the week, a move that could determine the outcome of a close race with Los Angeles for the U.S. nomination. Read More...

Press Release: AIBA Comments on Mosow Boxing Withdrawl

3/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Here is a press release from AIBA commenting of the withdrawl of Moscow as host of the boxing World Championships. Read More...

Moscow Loses Boxing World Championship

3/11/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The International Boxing Association has cancelled Moscow as the site for the 2007 World Championships. Read More...

Countdown Beijing: Licensed Product Sales, Bibles in Hotels and Mandarin Speakers Wanted

3/10/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Record-setting sales from licensed products, the Bible in Beijing hotel rooms and a search for Mandarin-speaking volunteers: More inside with Countdown Beijing… Read More...

Chicago Will Seek Olympic Guarantees, Switch Aquatics Venue Site

3/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The Chicago city council will be asked to consider a package of financial guarantees worth as much as $500 million to help lure the U.S. nomination for the 2016 Olympics. And Chicago bid organizers say to improve the legacy of a 2016 Games, they will change the location where an aquatics center would be built. Read More...

Native Group Says it Stole Olympic Flag as Protest

3/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) An Olympic flag in Vancouver may have been stolen from City Hall as a protest by a native group, who released an image of three of its members with what they say is the missing flag. Read More...

On the Scene in Chicago: An Olympic Notepad

3/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The playing field may have been frozen but the leaders of Chicago 2016 managed to avoid any slipping on the ice during the 48-hour visit of the USOC Evaluation Commission. The visit had some marked differences from and similarities to the Los Angeles trip a week ago. On the scene coverage inside... Read More...

Sochi Marks Womens’ Day with New Olympic Rep

3/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Russia's first female Winter Games Champion joins the Sochi 2014 Olympic bid in celebration of International Womens’ Day. Read More...

Getting Coordinated in Vancouver

3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) With fewer than 1100 days to the 2010 opening ceremony, the Olympics overseer says “time is running”. Read More...

Press release: Hoeller, Leitner appointed Executive Directors Salzburg 2014

3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Here is a press release from Salzburg 2014 announcing the appointment of Rudolf Hoeller and Gernot Leitner as joint Executive Directors of the city's Olympic bid. Read More...

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The Golden 25, now in its 12th year, is a compilation of the personalities who will play the greatest influence in 2008 for the business of the Olympics. The listing is the product of a matrix assembled by ATR that includes names, events and issues.

Far more than 25 people make things happen in the Olympics Movement. Reader comments are always welcome. Please send them to comment@aroundtherings.com.

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Click on the names in the Golden 25 list for details about each member.

The Golden 25 for 2008

      1. Liu Qi
      2. Jacques Rogge
      3. Hein Verbruggen
      4. Thomas Bach
      5. Peter Ueberroth
      6. Denis Oswald
      7. Richard Carrion
      8. Asia Sheikh Ahmad Al Sabah
      9. Gerhard Heiberg
      10. Mario Vazquez Rana
      11. Sergey Bubka
      12. Patrick Hickey
      13. Nawal El Moutawakel
      14. Gilbert Felli
      15. Francisco Elizalde
      16. Jean-Claude Killy
      17. Gunilla Lindberg
      18. Philip Craven
      19. Youssoupha Ndiaye
      20. Dick Ebersol
      21. David Brooks
      22. Rene Fasel
      23. John Furlong
      24. Sebastian Coe
      25. John Fahey
      

ATR Golden 25 for 2007

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    1. Chicago - 79
    2.(tie) Madrid - 77
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    3. Tokyo - 74
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    5.(tie) Prague - 55
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