Olympic Games: Cohn-Bendit calls on IOC to stop pretending sport is not political
cohn-bendit.de     May 16, 2008          

At a press conference on the occasion of the Greens/EFA Conference "Olympic rights for human games", Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, today said: "The International Olympic Committee would have us believe that sports and politics should be kept... [read full story]                

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