<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>International Olympic Committee: News &amp; Videos about International Olympic Committee - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/International_Olympic_Committee</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about International Olympic Committee from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:04:53 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>International Olympic Committee: News &amp; Videos about International Olympic Committee - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/International_Olympic_Committee</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about International Olympic Committee from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Brian Cazeneuve: World champ Lysacek sitting pretty ahead of Vancouver Games</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/11/17/vancouver.notes/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/11/17/vancouver.notes/index.html</guid><description>Evan Lysacek is right where he wants to be.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Brian Cazeneuve:  Behind backing of Rogge, IOC approves golf and rugby</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/10/09/golf.rugby/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/10/09/golf.rugby/index.html</guid><description>One more reason to buy a ticket to Rio in 2016? Tiger Woods.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frank Deford:  Starring in a reality show, purposely or not, has dangerous effect on athletes</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/frank_deford/10/07/ioc/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/frank_deford/10/07/ioc/index.html</guid><description>My gracious, but this has been a difficult time for us sports troubadours. We do better with simple games, with the tic-tac-toe offensive and defensive Xs and Os, as opposed to the exes and ohs that refer to past marital tense and current romantic joy. I mean, hardly had I begun to digest the news that Lamar Odom of the NBA had married Khloe Kardashian of reality show fame -- ohhh! -- than comes word that Chris Evert and Greg Norman, America's senior sweethearts, had broken up, potential exes-to-be.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brian Cazeneuve:  Expect more dominoes to fall after Streeter's resignation from USOC</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/10/07/streeter/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/brian_cazeneuve/10/07/streeter/index.html</guid><description>In answering the question of when rather than if, the USOC announced that acting CEO Stephanie Streeter will be on her way out from the top of the U.S. Olympic Committee. 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The winning city should be announced between noon and 1 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is golf the next Olympic sport?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/olympic_golf.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/olympic_golf.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Tiger Woods already has 14 major titles. He could be adding an Olympic medal to his collection soon.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Science Tell a Gymnast's Age?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835485,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835485,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>So-called "age-doping" may be the scandal about to break over women's gymnastics. 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Price: What I'm looking forward to at the 2008 Games</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/sl_price/08/06/wilft/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/sl_price/08/06/wilft/index.html</guid><description>I'm like anybody else. I watch the Olympics because I want to see who wins. But the 2008 Summer Games are intriguing for reasons that go well beyond the 100-meter final, Michael Phelps' bid to become the greatest Olympian ever or the daily mine-is-bigger exercise of comparing medal counts.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Should Chess Be an Olympic Sport? 
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