Curated Video
S Sudanese runner going to Olympics after getting go-ahead from Olympic Committee
Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labour camp. Now he will get to run at the Olympics.
Despite having no passport and officially no country - and at one time very little hope - the 28-year-old marathoner was cleared...
Curated Video
International Olympic Committee session gets underway
Members of The International Olympic Committee (IOC) convened in Sochi on Wednesday, two days ahead the opening of Russia's first Winter Games.
During the session, delegates observed a minute's silence to remember Georgian luge slider...
Curated Video
NBA star Dwyane Wade purchased a church for his mother this past weekend. The Miami Heat guard is also rehabbing an injured knee, hoping to make this summer's Olympic team.
HEADLINE:NBA Star buys his mother a church
CAPTION: NBA star Dwyane Wade purchased a church for his mother this past weekend. The Miami Heat guard is also rehabbing an injured knee, hoping to make this summer's Olympic team. (May...
Curated Video
AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY OLYMPICS: ROMANIANS (2)
English/Nat
U-S head coach of the Women's Weightlifting team, Michael Cohen, has applauded the suspension of the Romanian Weightlifting Team from the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games after they submitted two positive drug tests.
Cohen...
Curated Video
SYND 19 7 76 JEAN-CLAUDE GANGA SPEAKING AT IOC MEETING IN MONTREAL
***Clients are advised that clearance from IOC may be required***
Jean-Claude Ganga, General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Sport in Africa gives a press conference to apologise to the Canadian government and the Mayor of Montreal...
Curated Video
Opening of international conference on doping in sport
1. Exterior of Astir Palace hotel where conference is taking place
2. Sign at entrance
3. Interior of conference
4. Panel of speakers
5. Head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Dick Pound on panel
6. Audience at conference
7....
Curated Video
Greek protesters want Olympic flame put out if Elgin Marbles are not returned
Athens - 8 May 2012
1. Various of replicas of missing Parthenon Marbles also known as the Elgin Marbles
2. Exterior of sign reading (English) "Acropolis" and Acropolis in distance
3. Greek flag on top of the Acropolis
4. SOUNDBITE...
Curated Video
Senators on Olympics, human rights, writers hand in petition
New York
1. Wide of writer Salman Rushdie during news conference
2. Mid of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Salman Rushdie, writer:
"The greatest victory of censorship, it seems to me, is when it goes on for so long and is so all...
Curated Video
Focus shifts to preparations for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio
With the London Olympics drawing to a close on Sunday, the world's attention is already turning to Rio, which will host the Games in 2016.
Although there are four years to go until the world's biggest sporting event gets under way again,...
Curated Video
UK Foreign Sec meets Shinzo Abe, presents him with London 2012 Olympic torch
British Foreign Minister William Hague met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As a symbol of goodwill following Tokyo's successful bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020, Hague presented Abe with the torch used at...
Curated Video
Released members of punk band comment on prison conditions, Vladimir Putin, call for Olympic boycott
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, reiterated her call to boycott the Winter Olympics, to be held in Sochi in February, saying that visiting the Games would "support what Vladimir Putin (Russian...
Curated Video
UK minister urges China to improve human rights record
1. Lord Malloch-Brown sits down
2. Reporters
3. wide shot, news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord Malloch-Brown, Britain's minister for Africa, Asia, and the UN:
"However impressed we are with the progress of China on so many...
Curated Video
Healthy sales and television rights look set to leave Turin in profit
Sestriere, 14 February 2006
1. Wide of Sestriere down-hill skiing venue
2. Wide pan of spectators queuing at Sestriere down-hill skiing venue gates
3. Close-up of ticket
Cesana San Sicario, 21 February 2006
4. Long shot of spectators...
Curated Video
+4:3 A gold medal won by Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics goes up for auction
Amid the jerseys and baseball bats held in a secure room at SCP Auctions in California, there's a piece of sports memorabilia which speaks to much more than athletic prowess - an Olympic gold medal won by track superstar Jesse Owens at...
Curated Video
BOCOG, IOC reps, vps and newspaper reax to flame relay protests
1. Wide interior of Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) meeting in Beijing
2. Cutaway of flags and delegates attending meeting
3. Mid of Beijing Organising Committee for 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) Liu Jingmin, addressing...
Curated Video
Former U.S. figure skating champion Nicole Bobek would never do anything criminal, the skater's mother said Wednesday, two days after her 31-year-old daughter was released from jail on a drug charge
HEADLINE: Ex-skate champ Bobek faces meth charge
CAPTION: Former U.S. figure skating champion Nicole Bobek would never do anything criminal, the skater's mother said Wednesday, two days after her 31-year-old daughter was released from...
Curated Video
IOC executive board attend reception at Buckingham Palace, Queen makes address
The first medals of the London 2012 Olympic Games were handed out on Monday, four days before the official tournament launch.
The collection of gold, silver and bronze medals was presented by the President of the International Olympics...
Curated Video
AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY OLYMPICS: TRANSPORT
English/Nat
Sydney faces its biggest Olympic hurdle yet on Friday when 400-thousand people are expected to try and reach the main Games venues - at the same time!
Its the first day of athletics at the main stadium and fans will join...
Curated Video
Afghan Olympic Committee boss Zahir Aghbar on equality in sport.
The head of Afghanistan's Olympic Committee, Zahir Aghbar, is doing his bit to inspire the country's sporting stars of tomorrow, visiting gymnasiums and speaking to aspiring athletes.
Four Afghans have so far qualified for this summer's...
Curated Video
Thousands of athletes pass through English garden styled terminal on their way home
Thousands of Olympic athletes on their way home through Heathrow airport were being bid a very British farewell.
The athletes were passing through a temporary Games Terminal designed in the style of an English garden.
In the middle...
Curated Video
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan carries Olympic torch
The king of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan, was cheered on by Londoners on Thursday as he took part in the Olympic Torch Relay.
The 69-year-old Bollywood megastar jogged a distance of 300 metres - although he walked occasionally - in...
Curated Video
International sports fans aren't alone in making noise in Sochi, so is the Olympic cauldron. Spectators can hear the gas-fed flame even when they're hundreds of yards away. (Feb. 14)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus005597
Kimberlee Tessean/Denver, Colorado 34 years old
"Just the sheer size of the flame is epic. It's huge."
Lisa Marie Bowles-Goldshtein/Randolph, New Jersey 52 years old
"It's powerful. It...
Curated Video
Rio's new control centre for World Cup and Olympics
AP Television
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - March 30, 2011
1. Wide panoramic view of Rio de Janeiro showing Botafogo Bay and Sugarloaf Mountain
2. Wide of shore side street with traffic
3. Tilt up glass building with sign reading (Portugese):...
Curated Video
Kidnapped Libyan Olympic Committee chief released
The president of Libya's Olympic Committee was released on Sunday a week after unknown gunmen nabbed him from his car in the capital.
Ahmed Nabil al-Taher al-Alam was greeted by family and friends after returning to his home in...