Current president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge pushing for Moroccan Muslima to take his place.

Current president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge pushing for Moroccan Muslima to take his place.(MO).Moroccan Nawal Al-Moutawakel already has the distinctions of being the first Muslim to win an Olympic gold medal, as well as the first Moroccan, Arab, African, and Muslim woman to do the same. She achieved this by winning the 400 meter hurdles at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad. Post-athletics, she has since ascended to the position of vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. The current president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has announced his plans to step down later this year.
The 50-year-old mother of two would be the first woman to run the IOC, and only the second non-European to do the job, following Avery Brundage of the United States. Rogge himself is promoting her as his successor. Al-Matouwakel currently heads the coordinating committee for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games. The IOC presidential election is to be held at the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires in September. “Sport has given me so much that whatever I give back it will never be enough,” said Al-Moutawakel. “I am certainly considering standing for the IOC presidency. Maybe it is time for a woman. But there is a long list of possible contenders.”
Al Moutawakel was a student at Iowa State University when she won her gold medal. King Hassan II of Morocco even phoned her to offer congratulations and declared that all girls born on the day of her victory were to be named in her honor. She went on to organize the first Moroccan women’s 10km race in Casablanca, an event that now attracts more than 30,000 participants annually.
She soon became a successful businesswoman. She then followed that up by becoming Morocco’s minister of sport. She ultimately became an IOC executive board member and led the IOC Evaluation Commission for the London 2012 Games. She speaks fondly of the London experience: “London was a historic milestone for women. Women competed in every discipline and for every nation, even Saudi Arabia. Notably, the first female boxing competition was a great success. Also for the first time, 35 out of the 204 national Olympic committees had more women than men in their delegations, including Germany and the United States.”
“She is an iconic role model for women’s sport, for which she has consistently broadened the parameters,” says England’s Lord Coe, with whom she sits on the boards of both the International Association of Athletics Federation and the Laureus International Awards panel. “I am a great admirer. She would make a terrific IOC president.”
Fourteen years ago El Moutawakel said: “Someone once said the future of sport is feminine, and I believe that. You cannot move forward without both legs, men and women. Complete integration is important, but increased female presence at major sports events is not enough. We want full inclusion in administration. Women are present in all activities, so why can’t they be leaders in sport?Hmmmm.....For sure a minute silence for the Murdered Jewish Olympic athletes may be forgotten.Read the full story here.

Munich widows slams IOC over no moment of silence.

Munich widows slams IOC over no moment of silence.(AA).Widows of two of the 11 Israelis killed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 lambasted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its president at a London commemoration on Monday. The two, Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano, representing family members of the athletes, coaches and officials who were killed, say they have tried for four decades to persuade the IOC to organize an official commemoration. They vowed to continue their efforts get their wish at future Games. Senior international figures including U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have called for a tribute to the 11 men who were killed in a standoff in Munich with Palestinian gunmen. A German policeman was also killed. Monday’s commemoration was hosted by Israel’s Olympic Committee at London’s impressive Guildhall, with International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, top British politicians, Israel’s sports minister and Germany’s foreign minister present. Israel has organized a commemorative event since the Sydney Games in 2000 and Rogge has participated as IOC president since the Athens Olympics four years later, but the two widows said it should be the IOC that organizes the ceremony, not Israel. Lamenting what she said was Rogge’s refusal to hold the minute’s silence,
Spitzer said the “call was heard all over the world, (and) only the International Olympic Committee remains deaf and blind.” “They were killed on Olympic soil and the appropriate place to remember them is at the opening ceremony,” Romano said in her speech to the hundreds of invited guests, who stood for a minute of silence. Rogge said everybody remembered the “horrific events of 1972” even if they had not yet been born, and he described the killings as “the worst days of the Olympic movement.” “We are all here today because we share a duty those innocent victims and to history to make sure the lessons of 1972 are never forgotten ... we are here to speak with one voice against terrorism,” he said. Rogge held a surprise tribute in the athletes’ village on the Monday before the opening ceremony but that low-key event failed to satisfy the victims’ relatives. In her speech, which won her a standing ovation, Spitzer accused the IOC of having priorities that did not allow it to heed the call for the tribute at the Olympic opening ceremony. “Is the IOC only interested in power, money and politics (that) they have forgotten what they are supposed to promote: peace brotherhood and fair play?” she said.
Spitzer also said the refusal involved the victims’ nationality and religion.

 “Shame on you International Olympic Committee because you have forsaken the 11 members of your Olympic family, you are discriminating against them only because they are Israelis and Jews.” 

 Obama sent a greeting to the gathering which was read by U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman. “While the United States supported a moment of silence in their honour, we welcome any effort to recall the terrible loss that was suffered in Munich and the lives of those who were lost,” Obama wrote. British Prime Minister David Cameron who attended the ceremony at its start, said the events of Munich were “a sickening act of terrorism that betrayed everything the Olympic movement stands for and everything that we in Britain believe in.” Spitzer said she was “overwhelmed” by the amount of international support the campaign for a commemoration and that the efforts to gain the moment’s silence would continue. “We will be back because until we hear the words you need to say because you owe it to them,” she said.Read the full story here.

Official London Olympics website remembers 40 years ago "1972 Munich Olympic Games terrorist attack" by making Jerusalem Palestine's Capital.

Official London Olympics website remembers 40 years ago "1972 Munich Olympic Games terrorist attack" by making Jerusalem Palestine's Capital.(IsraelMatzav).Here's a screen shot from the official London Olympics website as it was until Monday morning (Hat Tip: Tom Gross).
Tom Gross adds:

Unlike dozens of other disputed territories throughout the world, such as Tibet, Kurdistan or Baluchistan, Palestine is invited to participate in the Olympics as if it were already a nation state.

Of course. None of those territories are connected to Jews.

Cheryl H points out that on the same London Olympics web site, Israel is part of Europe, while 'Palestine' (and Arab countries like Jordan and Syria) are part of Asia.

Maybe they're afraid we'll be offended if they place the Arab countries on the same continent as us?

Things haven't changed much in the last 40 years, have they?Hmmm.........WELCOME TO LONDONISTAN.Israel should refuse to participate in the games after such an insult.Read the full story here.