China Olympic abuse claims probed
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Organisers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics say they are looking into reports of child labour and worker abuse.
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China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.
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The International Olympic Committee has announced it intends to investigate claims that Marion Jones used banned substances at the Sydney Olympics.
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A British Olympian risked sparking controversy on Tuesday by calling on China to do more to end the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, amid a row over attempts by the British Olympic Association to gag its athletes.
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Another senior official has become embroiled in a Beijing Olympics corruption scandal which has already cost a vice-mayor his job, but Games organizers said they had stepped up vigilance against graft.
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Protesters gather in Beijing claiming they have been illegally evicted, beaten and had their homes demolished as China prepares to host the Olympic games
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Athens, Aug 20. (PTI):In a belated damage-control exercise, the Indian Olympic Association today announced setting up of a Committee to probe into the Olympic Games doping scandal and suggest stringent measures to curb the menace.
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China's human rights record has   deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands   of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty   International said on Thursday.
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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ELEANOR HALL: To China now, and authorities in Beijing have released an Australian man arrested for unfurling a banner that read &quot;No Olympics In China Until Tibet Is Free&quot;.
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The Hungarian gold medalist in the men&#39;s discus and a high jumper from Belarus are under investigation by the IOC for doping violations, International Olympic Committee officials said Tuesday.
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The International Olympic Committee joined the investigation yesterday into allegations that Marion Jones, the American gold-medal sprinter, had used anabolic steroids and other illegal bodybuilding drugs.
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Chinese police are using the annual meeting of parliament to crackdown on a wide range of dissent in what could be a dress rehearsal for the Beijing Olympics, activists and rights groups said Wednesday.
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China hit back on Tuesday at critics of its human rights record, saying the world was using the Olympics, which Beijing will host in August, as an excuse to make a villain out of its government.
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Track&#39;s governing body began investigating Thursday whether two Greek sprinters who withdrew from the Olympics had tried repeatedly to avoid doping testers.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday that IOC President Jacques Rogge has set up a Disciplinary Commission to investigate remarks on ABCâs 20/20 Friday, made by Victor Conte, head of the California-based Balco laboratory, on ABC
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Police completed Wednesday an investigation into the alleged motorcycle accident involving Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, who have pulled out of the Olympics because of a doping scandal.