Is the International Olympic Committee Failing Olympic Athletes Worldwide?

By: Andrew Kemmer.

The Olympics are lucrative business today. The International Olympic Committee is a billion-dollar organization, and it is supposed to facilitate Olympic sports worldwide. Instead, it absolves itself of responsibility by giving away money to international federations to do with as they please. That leaves athletes to languish in poverty while IOC executives and broadcasting companies get rich off of them.

Image credit: https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-invites-olympic-winter-athletes-to-pyeongchang-2018-with-just-one-year-to-go

MSU ILRFebruary 22, 2018IOC, International Olympic Committee, SportsLaw, Human Trafficking, Human Rights

Can the IOC Achieve Sustainable Olympic Games?

By: Kylie Cumback.

Past Olympic Cycles have been ripe with corruption and financial burdens, the IOC has dedicated itself to ensuring that the future of the Games is bright.

MSU ILRFebruary 19, 2018SportsLaw, IOC, International Olympic Committee, Olympics, Kylie Cumback, Sustainability

Korean Olympics: North to South

By: Max Mittleman.

As the 2018 Olympics get underway, the relationship between North and South Korea is as much in the spotlight as are the athletes preparing for competition. What has changed in the thirty years since the last Olympics held on the Korean penninsula?

Image credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Korea_olympic_march_2010.jpg

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