"The Olympic movement used to be about amateur sports, " Gardner told the Journal's Sara Germano.
The way the Olympic movement is run from now on may depend on the answer to that question.
The Olympic movement has a trillion minor and a dozen major sponsors worldwide.
Everybody recognizes the strength of the Olympics, and there is no denying the power that the Olympic movement provides its sanctioned sports.
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"The Soviet Union stayed in Afghanistan and they boycotted L.A.. It was horrible for the Olympic movement and for the athletes, " Paige says.
The protest caused outrage in the Olympic movement, particularly in the US, and Smith and Carlos were immediately sent home from the Games.
"I am saddened by the actions of those who have abandoned the basic tenets of both American justice and the Olympic movement, " Mankamyer said.
An IOC spokesperson said the decision was meant "to send a firm signal... that this case has brought the Olympic movement very much into disrepute".
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Raphael Martinetti, the Swiss businessman who serves as a president of FILA, the international wrestling federation, is said to boast limited connections inside the Olympic movement.
We hope, however, that the matter could be concluded immediately, so any further embarrassment for the Olympic Movement could be avoided, especially prior to the commencement of the next Olympiad.
On Sunday, Mr. Rogge said that "the Youth Games will definitely be something very important for the Olympic movement, " adding that some 90 former Youth Games athletes won medals in London.
We look forward to telling the story about wrestling to the International Committee leadership and the entire world about our great sport and why it should be part of the Olympic movement forever.
For more than 20 years, Panasonic has been proud to support the Olympic Movement as an Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category and, beginning in 2009, in the Digital Imaging category as well.
For one or two of them maybe that was the case, but the truth is that there is a genuine belief within the Olympic movement that the modern Olympics simply wouldn't be the same if it hadn't been for Samaranch, and the Spaniard's supporters have a point.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Addington, who is vice president of UK Sports Association, argued that restrictions on the use of Olympic symbols were "there for very good reasons, primarily to allow the Olympic movement and those sports attached to it to raise financing and protect their marketing".
Paige, who is now a business development director for the sports arm of an engineering firm, is also not convinced by the effectiveness of the boycott, which came close to destroying the Olympic movement and led to a tit-for-tat snub of the 1984 Los Angeles Games by the Soviet Union and its allies.
Such decision to exclude her from the next Olympiad will have no legal grounds, it will violate the Olympic Charter, it will bring the Olympic Movement into disrepute, it will constitute an abuse of power and discrimination against an athlete who has qualified successfully according to the rules and it will breach the European Convention on Human Rights.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said his thoughts and those of the whole Olympic movement were with the victims.
However many Olympic historians believe that the wily Baron de Coubertin - founder of the modern Olympic movement - used the eruption as a face-saving formula to disguise the fact that the Italians just could not afford to stage the Games.
It was Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, who first conceived the idea of a marriage between sport and the arts.
He was also president of the Wenlock Olympian Society - the forerunner of the modern Olympic movement.
The Salt Lake City scandal rocked the whole Olympic movement.
"Who better to share with members of the International Olympic Committee the commitment and enthusiasm Chicago has for the Olympic and Paralympic Movement, " he added.
Notwithstanding any other arguments on the issue, it is our contention that it is the IOC itself which violates the Olympic Charter and brings the Movement into disrepute, by discriminating against Ms Thanou and by simply trying to apply double standards.
In fact, a photo of Burroughs and Iranian wrestler Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi locked arm-in-arm on the medal stand in London has become a symbolic image on social media sites for the movement to save Olympic wrestling.
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