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SWITZERLAND: IOC ALLEGED BRIBERY INVESTIGATION PRESS CONFERENCE
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International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound, charged with investigating allegations of bribery, says he is ready to take action against any new evidence of corruption.
He was speaking on Monday, at the beginning a week...
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Heavy security as Olympic relay hits Xinjiang province
1. Back lit shot of sun rising behind Olympic countdown clock
2. Close up of digital clock showing 52 days until Olympic games
3. Pull out from People's Liberation Army memorial to opening ceremony
4. Audience clapping, red Olympic...
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Steel magnate Mittal talks to AP about Orbit Tower, Olympics legacy
Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal said on Monday that the ruby red sculpture that towers over the Olympic Stadium is not the cauldron that will hold the ceremonial flame.
Mittal told The Associated Press that he met with the Olympic...
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IOC President Bach visits Maracana stadium
The President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, visited Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium on Wednesday - during his official trip to the host city of the 2016 Olympics.
It was Bach's first visit to Brazil since being...
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Chinese groundswell of support for home nation after gold rush at Games
July 24, 2008
1. Mid of Sun Dingguo, a Beijing Olympic enthusiast wearing 2008 sunglasses and rapping in Mandarin about the Olympics and how China welcomes the world, 'One World, One Dream'
2. Wide of another performer wearing a Chinese...
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IOC and BOA on Olympic athletes partying following Australian rower incident
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday told athletes to "drink wisely", hours after an Australian rower was detained by police in connection with an alcohol-related incident.
"Of course, we'd ask all athletes after their...
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Ghana''s skier, known as the snow leopard, arrives for Winter Games
1. Ghanaian Olympic Alpine skier Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, known as the Snow Leopard, waiting in Robson Square
2. Various of Nkrumah-Acheampong entering British Columbia Media Centre, waiting with members of his family
3. Wide of...
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WRAP BOCOG, IOC reps, vps and newspaper reax to flame protests; ADDS Bubka
1. Wide interior of Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) meeting in Beijing
2. Cutaway of flags and delegates attending meeting
3. Mid of Beijing Organising Committee for 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) Liu Jingmin, addressing...
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Mayor holds presser to discuss security needed for relay of Olympic torch
1. Wide of Buenos Aires Torch Relay news conference
2. Jorge Carcavallo from 'Free Tibet' handing papers to mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri
3. Cutaway of 'Beijing 2008' Olympic logo
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jorge Carcavallo,...
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UK minister visits new missing persons helpline centre
1. Wide of British Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell (and in charge of Government support for victims' families) walking towards support centre with Brian Paddick, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (in uniform)
2....
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French Olympic chief rules against badges for French athletes
April 4, 2008
1. Wide of French athlete David Douillet at presentation for proposed badge that French athletes would wear
2. Mid of presentation
3. Close-up of badge on lapel
April 15, 2008
3. French sports minister Bernard Laporte...
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China marks 100 days to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games
1. Close-up of countdown clock reaching 100 days, pull out to wide of celebration near Tai Miao (the Ancestral Temple)
2. Wide of celebration with people waving flags
3. People waving flags
4. Medium of Tai Miao, pull out to wide of...
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Head of anti-doping agency comments
1. Wide shot of room
2. Set-up shot of Dick Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, talking to journalist
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Pound, Head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA):
"I think we have done a lot of work in drawing...
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Protesters hold demonstration and alternative torch relay
1. Wide of pro-Tibet protesters at London's Argyle Square
2. Protest posters and flags
3. Protesters with Tibetan flags and banners, some on fence
4. Protesters marching UPSOUND: "Shame on China. China China China, out out out."
5. Pan...
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Demonstrators continue to protest outside BOC over Tibet
1. Belgium Olympic Committee (BOC) sign with pro-Tibet demonstration in background
2. Demonstration in front of BOC building
3. Protesters holding flags UPSOUND: chanting "Stop killing in Tibet"
4. Close-up of protester UPSOUND:...
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USA: ATLANTA: US GYMNASTIC TEAM CELEBRATE AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD
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The U-S women's gymnastic team have been out to celebrate their Olympic victory at Atlanta's Planet Hollywood but they were not the only stars to turn up.
Hollywood couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were so impressed with...
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Site of tower at Olympic Park ahead of events to mark 1,000 days until 2016 Games
Officials said on Friday that the construction of the Olympic Park was on schedule, as the countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro reaches 1,000 days on Saturday.
Work on the 1.18 million square metre Olympic Park began...
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French athletes plan to wear 'For a better world' badges at games
1. Exteriors of headquarters of National Committee of French Olympic Athletes
2. Close-up of exterior showing Olympic symbol
3. Wide of co-president David Douillet showing on screen the badge French athletes want to wear at the Olympic...
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Olympic Torch runs through Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province
1. Tracking shot of crowd of jubilant Chinese waving Chinese flags and chanting (Mandarin) "Go China!"
2. Close-up of girls waving flags and chanting (Mandarin) "Go China!"
3. Wide of runner holding torch, supporters cheering, zoom-in to...
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American Sage Kotsenburg talks about winning a gold medal in the first-ever Olympic Snowboard Slopestyle event. (Feb. 8)
Sochi, Russia
SOUNDBITE (English) Sage Kotsenburg/Snowboard Slopestyle Gold medal
"He was like WHAT!!!!!"
SOUNDBITE (English) Sage Kotsenburg/Snowboard Slopestyle Gold medal
"I was kind of like hey, if you guys can kind of hang out at...
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93 year old Olympic torchbearer still running
1. Close up of Rosario Iglesias delivering newspapers at walking pace
2. Wide shot of Rosario delivering newspapers
3. Various shots of Rosario at her newsstand
4. Rosario training with grandson at home
5. Wide shot Rosario training...
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FBI Director Robert Mueller press conference on Olympics security
1. Wide pull-out FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) director Robert Mueller, walking to podium
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mueller, Director of US FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation):
"We were shown the Olympic sites and...
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Fair in 2016 Olympics host city draws art galleries from around the world
1. Wide of visitors looking at art work using VW Beetle car by Anna Paola Protasio
2. Close of artwork
3. Mid of chair by Marc Newson
4. Mid of sculpture by Salvador Dali
5. Mid of painting by Pablo Picasso
6. Close of work by Helio...
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USA: ATLANTA: 5 ARMENIAN OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTERS ARRESTED
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Five Armenian weightlifters, including a 1992 Olympic gold medalist, were arrested Thursday after trying to force their way into a building to meet a woman apparently working as a prostitute.
The charges have since been...