International Olympic Committee

... sort of environment, so it's terrific for me.

Th- so the European championship, then you have this world championship tournament, and what I read, and you can correct me here, is that the success of '91 was a big part of what convinced, whether it was Atlanta or the IOC, to include women's soccer in the '96 Olympics, which goes on to be a huge success.

What do you remember about the process of realizing it would be an Olympic sport, and then the experience of the '96 Olympics and the packed stadiums across the southeast of the US?

Well, that's a g- really good question, and I don't int- I don't know the answer to that.

What, what would be the purpose of them changing this?

Um, so the IOC, the International, um, Olympic Committee, so the older sports, like the ones, the boxing, wrestling, judo, as ...

Let's go to the marketing side, the money side of this.

Okay.

And so a lot of the things around the way chess is governed have to do with trying to be compliant with Olympiad, let's call it law, right? right so for example the anti-doping thing that we have in chess is really at the behest or direction of ioc right uh decisions about what doping might mean right so they're

trying to be congruent with every one of the ways that the ioc is doing things

and this cas thing was set up by the IOC, which is the International Olympic Committee, to deal with all kinds of this stuff.

So interestingly, even though we've had multiple people in charge of FIDE, the desire to kind of be Olympic compliant so that someday we can be an Olympic sport, I feel like it continues to go on.

So when the IOC, through this CAS thing, says, no, no, no, I think it's a...

It's like an institutional thing about the Olympiad.

It's been this weird but beautiful creature that exists in another land between Olympian and not Olympian.

here's something actually interesting david that i found because i think It is an interesting question.

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So the European Championship, then you have this World Championship tournament.

And what I read, and you can correct me here, is that the success of 91 was a big part of what convinced, whether it was Atlanta or the IOC, to include women's soccer in the 96th.

olympics which goes on to be a huge success what do you remember about the process of realizing it would be an olympic sport and then the experience of the 96 olympics and the pack stadiums across the southeast of the u.s

Well, that's a really good question.

So, yeah, we can imagine a big standoff now at the border as Russian athletes try to get in, maybe wearing false moustaches and with fake passports or something.

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Many of us had written standard operating procedures.

I've written a piece for International Olympic Committee with regard to standards.

But wow, putting it down and putting it down for others is very – you're very vulnerable.

And so, yeah, if it's – I literally couldn't answer the question if it's with regard to fiction.

You have the Sports Science, Medical, the Youth Commission, they all come in.

So the commissions are very similar to IOC.

So you kind of mirror that model.

That's the International Olympic Committee where we'd love to go.