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By: Jamiyat

Jamiyat — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:38:22 +0000

Thank you for your info!

The Russian Olympic official has also mentioned in the same interview that the great work done by Russians and friends from the CIS countries have helped them secure guaranteed votes in Europe.

He also said: because the majority of countries from Asia and Africa don’t participate in the winter olympic games they could have given their votes to anyone. It was unpredictable to whom they would choose. Asian olympic council has 18 members of the OIC. Only three of which China, Japan, South Korea participate fully in winter games.

“In this case serious support was carried out by our old friends…having big authority and influence in the Asian Olympic council”, – Leonid Tyagachev has said.

By: colleen

colleen — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:18:14 +0000

The IOC is such a diverse group and the voting for ’14 was so close that we can’t say that a particular member or a particular country gave the games to Sochi. There was a blog last month that “Americans gave the games to Russia” — but the U.S. only has 3 IOC members, as many as Greece, while France and Germany have 4.

list of IOC members: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_International_Olympic_Committee