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1/2 History of scandals in the IOC The president of the International Olympic Committee is head of the executive board that assumes the general overall responsibility for the administration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the management of its affairs. The IOC Executive Board consists of the president, four vice-presidents, and ten other IOC members;[1] all of the board members are elected by the IOC Session, using a secret ballot, by a majority vote. Avery Brundage (1952–1972), became vice-president of the IOC in 1945 and was subsequently elected president in 1952, at the 47th IOC Session in Helsinki, succeeding Sigfrid Edström. Brundage fathered two sons with a woman to whom he was not married; in order to avoid a political scandal, he requested that his name be kept off the birth certificates. Brundage also opposed anything that he viewed as politicizing sport. At the 1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to show support for the Black Power movement during their medal ceremony. Brundage ordered the USOC to expel both African-American men from the Olympic Village and have them suspended from the U.S. Olympic team. When the USOC refused, he threatened to ban the entire U.S. Olympic team. However, Brundage made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics. He may be best remembered for his decision during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, to continue the Games following the Black September Palestinian terrorist attack which killed eleven Israeli athletes. He stated the “We lost the Rhodesian battle against naked political blackmail. I am sure that the public will agree that we cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy this nucleus of international cooperation and goodwill we have in the Olympic movement. The Games must go on....” Brundage strongly opposed the exclusion of Rhodesia from the Olympics due to its racial policies. After the attacks in Munich, Brundage drew a comparison between the massacre of the Israeli athletes and the barring of the Rhodesian team, for which he later apologized. Lord Killanin aka Michael Morris (1972–1980) was elected as Honorary President of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1950, and became the Irish delegate at the IOC in 1952. He eventually became senior vice-president of the IOC in 1968, and succeeded Avery Brundage to the presidency on 23 August 1972, being elected just prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics. He had to deal with the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Games and the financial failure of the 1976 Montréal Games. Due to limited interest from potential hosts, the cities of Lake Placid, New York and Los Angeles, California were chosen to host the 1980 Winter Games and the 1984 Summer Games, respectively, in the absence of any competing cities. Killanin resigned prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after the massive political boycott of those Games in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but retained his position until the Games were completed.

Extracts from an in-depth report from Holod Media (link in references - please visit) which offer a curious and detailed background of the Vatnik propagandist - Solovyov, now a familiar face on Twitter uttering absolute vile and hate over Ukraine and a his succour around the indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Solovyov is a man of many professions. He studied engineering and economics, taught physics at a high school, ran a variety of businesses, and hosted Russia’s most popular talk shows of the 2000s. Today he is the arch-warmonger of the Russian state media. Background: Vladimir Solovyov, 59, has come to be the embodiment of Russian propaganda. He is on air for hours and hours every single day—on TV, on the radio, and on YouTube, justifying Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, praising Vladimir Putin’s actions, threatening the West with a nuclear Armageddon, and calling for the dissidents to be jailed. Today he is by far the most active personality of the Russian state propaganda landscape. And, according to a survey conducted three years ago by independent pollster Levada Center, he is also the most trusted anchor in Russia. In 2022, Putin decorated Solovyov with the For Merit to the Fatherland order. Meanwhile, some twenty years ago Solovyov worked on the NTV channel together with journalists that were later ousted for criticizing the authorities. Back then, Solovyov used to invite independent politicians to his show, and oligarch Boris Berezovsky even offered him to head an opposition party. Solovyov was born into a family of a fine arts expert and a political economy teacher, who had boxing as a hobby and once even won the Moscow Championship. The mother and father divorced in the late 1960s, before Vladimir even went to elementary school. Nevertheless, the future TV anchor’s childhood was almost troubleless. On weekdays he attended an elite school with a focus on English and often spent weekends in Peredelkino, a cottage settlement outside Moscow built by the authorities for prominent Soviet writers and poets. Solovyov was friends with the grandchildren of poet Lev Oshanin, whose summer house in Peredelkino was frequented by many big names of Soviet intelligentsia, such as poets Bella Akhmadulina and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. In 1990, while accompanying a foreign delegation, he met American millionaire John Hathaway, who ran a real estate business in Alabama. Hathaway liked Solovyov and invited him to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States. It’s not clear how the businessman was connected to the university; Solovyov himself claims that he taught economics there. In 2017, university staff members recalled that some “Russian economist” actually visited the university in those years, but found no evidence of him teaching a course there. During his stay in the United States, Solovyov helped Hathaway in his political activities: the businessman was an active Republican Party donor and personally knew the family of President George H.W. Bush. In Solovyov’s words, his American friend got him involved in preparations for Bush’s election campaign; he also accompanied Hathaway collecting signatures in support of American soldiers during the Gulf War. (Hathaway once was a state senator in his native Maine, and in 1996, he intended to run for the US Senate, but lost the Republican primary. During that campaign he faced allegations of having sex with his children’s 12-year-old babysitter in Alabama in 1990.) 1/4 Next 👉 Dodgy financial dealings

1/2 History of scandals in the IOC The president of the International Olympic Committee is head of the executive board that assumes the general overall responsibility for the administration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the management of its affairs. The IOC Executive Board consists of the president, four vice-presidents, and ten other IOC members;[1] all of the board members are elected by the IOC Session, using a secret ballot, by a majority vote. Avery Brundage (1952–1972), became vice-president of the IOC in 1945 and was subsequently elected president in 1952, at the 47th IOC Session in Helsinki, succeeding Sigfrid Edström. Brundage fathered two sons with a woman to whom he was not married; in order to avoid a political scandal, he requested that his name be kept off the birth certificates. Brundage also opposed anything that he viewed as politicizing sport. At the 1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to show support for the Black Power movement during their medal ceremony. Brundage ordered the USOC to expel both African-American men from the Olympic Village and have them suspended from the U.S. Olympic team. When the USOC refused, he threatened to ban the entire U.S. Olympic team. However, Brundage made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics. He may be best remembered for his decision during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, to continue the Games following the Black September Palestinian terrorist attack which killed eleven Israeli athletes. He stated the “We lost the Rhodesian battle against naked political blackmail. I am sure that the public will agree that we cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy this nucleus of international cooperation and goodwill we have in the Olympic movement. The Games must go on....” Brundage strongly opposed the exclusion of Rhodesia from the Olympics due to its racial policies. After the attacks in Munich, Brundage drew a comparison between the massacre of the Israeli athletes and the barring of the Rhodesian team, for which he later apologized. Lord Killanin aka Michael Morris (1972–1980) was elected as Honorary President of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1950, and became the Irish delegate at the IOC in 1952. He eventually became senior vice-president of the IOC in 1968, and succeeded Avery Brundage to the presidency on 23 August 1972, being elected just prior to the 1972 Summer Olympics. He had to deal with the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Games and the financial failure of the 1976 Montréal Games. Due to limited interest from potential hosts, the cities of Lake Placid, New York and Los Angeles, California were chosen to host the 1980 Winter Games and the 1984 Summer Games, respectively, in the absence of any competing cities. Killanin resigned prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after the massive political boycott of those Games in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but retained his position until the Games were completed.

1/4 Detailed history of Sergei Lavrov’s comedic statements that will forever be etched on this illegal invasion of Ukraine. His full name is Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Лавров, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ lɐˈvrof] In January 2022, the US accused Russia of sending saboteurs into Ukraine to stage "a false-flag operation" that would create a pretext for Russia to invade Ukraine. Lavrov dismissed the US claim as "total disinformation." On 4 February 2022, Lavrov dismissed as "nonsense" and "craziness" allegations by the United States that Russia was preparing a fake video of the Ukrainian forces attacking the separatist-held Donbas as a pretext for starting a war in Ukraine. On 10 February 2022, Lavrov met with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. In the context of tensions between Russia and the West over a build up of Russian troops near the Russia–Ukraine border, Lavrov denied that Russia has any plans to invade Ukraine. He described Western "demands to remove Russian troops from Russian territory" as "regrettable." 🤣😂🤡 On 25 February 2022, the day after Russia began a 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lavrov claimed that Putin ordered the invasion to "free Ukrainians from oppression". 🤣😂🤡 The US added Lavrov to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. On 26 February, Australia announced similar sanctions on Lavrov. On 1 March most diplomats at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva staged a walkout in protest at the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Lavrov began to speak to the assembly via video from Moscow. Lavrov criticized the West on some policies relating to Ukraine, denouncing his prevention on flying to Geneva due to the ban on Russian aircraft on EU airspace as "Trying to avoid a candid face-to-face dialogue or direct contacts designed to help identify political solutions to pressing international issues." 🤣😂🤡 He was also quoted "The West clearly has lost self-control in venting anger against Russia and has destroyed its own rules and institutions."🤣😂🤡 Lavrov, who read from a prepared text, repeated Putin's 23 February goal statement: "The goal of our actions is to save people by fulfilling our allied obligations, as well as to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine so that such things never happen again."🤣😂🤡 On 25 February 2022, Lavrov claimed that "available statistics confirm" that "no strikes are being made on civilian infrastructure 🤣😂🤡." On 2 March 2022, Lavrov explained in an interview with Al Jazeera, how the invasion of Ukraine came about in the context of an international crisis that already existed well before 2014. According to him, Russia had to annex the Crimea in 2014 due to the unacceptable risk that NATO naval bases would replace the Russian military port there. 🤣😂🤡 He accuses the West of not supporting the special status of those minorities, before Yanukovych was deposed by the Orange Revolution in 2004–2005. He continued that Zelenskyy did not improve the situation any further, and that Putin had to order the invasion of Ukraine, because the US did not comply or even address the security concerns of Russia's western flank. At the same time, Lavrov tries to portray the current Ukrainian government as "nationalistic" and "right wing" because it does not incorporate historical and linguistic ties to Russia into national policies, and only excels to separate itself from a shared history and culture. 🤣😂🤡