First the International Olympic Committee (IOC) denied journalists access to the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen, where the 106 IOC-members stay during their 121st session and 13th Olympic congress. This was on Thursday.

Brazil now faces the challenge to tame the commercial forces around The Summer Olympics and make them serve social development

The International Olympic Committee, IOC, has decided to limit the media access to the Marriott Hotel in down town Copenhagen, Denmark, where the 106 members of the IOC are staying during the 121st Session and 13th Olympic Congress.

The domestic political and commercial marketing of the candidates Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo are contrary to the IOC's bible - the Olympic Charter.

Reporters kept away from the 106 voters in the election of the Olympics 2016.

Is the IOC's election system a democratic system? In this comment piece, journalist Jens Weinreich takes a critical look at the IOC election system, with the election of the Host City for the Olympic Summer Games in 2016 less than one month away.

Vancouver City Councilors have passed a motion calling for a reversal of the decision by the IOC not to offer a women’s ski jump competition at next year’s Winter Olympics, which will be held in the city.

Female ski jumpers have pledged to appeal a ruling by the Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia that the organisers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are not bound by Canadian constitutional law to offer a women’s ski jump event at the Games.