{"id":88,"date":"2005-10-19T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2005-10-19T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T15:31:19","slug":"ioc-still-waiting-to-board-the-cluetrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"IOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the CBC this AM, I heard that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/sports\/story.html?id=ed4cb63e-b8ff-4c1c-a451-16381c7726d2\">IOC wants Italy to &#8220;suspend&#8221; their tough anti-doping laws<\/a> during the Winter Olympics in Turin next year. Quote from Mario Pescante, IOC member and the government supervisor for the Olympics:<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;&#8221;They expect Italy will respect the duties it took on when it was assigned the Games,&#8221; he said.<\/i><br \/>\nWhat the hell?!?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been stewing on this since I heard it, trying to find *one* remotely-logical reason for why the IOC would want this, other than wrecking the show with cops raiding the Olympic village during the Games.<br \/>\nHow is it possibly Italy&#8217;s &#8220;duty&#8221; to rescind criminal laws during the Olympics? It&#8217;s not like they have a law making it illegal to participate in an Olympic sport <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the CBC this AM, I heard that the IOC wants Italy to &#8220;suspend&#8221; their tough anti-doping laws during the Winter Olympics in Turin next year. Quote from Mario Pescante, IOC member and the government supervisor for the Olympics: &#8220;&#8221;They expect Italy will respect the duties it took on when it was assigned the Games,&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IOC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soapbox","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}