Ted stevens olympic amateur sports act

Soccer presidential candidate and former goalkeeper Hope Solo has submitted a complaint to the U. It is the revised version of the Amateur Sports Act of One of the major changes is that amateurism is no longer a requirement for athletes competing in most international sports. The Stevens Act also grants monopoly status to the U. Olympic Committee, specifying requirements for its member national governing bodies for individualized sports. Why is she saying they are in violation of it?

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House committee report indicates little change coming to the Ted Stevens Act U. Olympic Movement, the U. National Governing Bodies than on any play-by-play of what happened and when. But the findings and recommendations point to where the Congress might be headed in terms of changes to the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, which governs the Olympic Movement within the United States. At least for the House, this Majority Report indicates that significant changes in the Act are not forthcoming, but that the United States Olympic Committee and the NGBs will be receiving some clear instructions on what they need to do — in sync — to help prevent any more abuses by known bad actors in the future.

Amateur Sports Act of still rings loudly through the Olympic Movement. The late Ted Stevens, a Republican Alaska senator for 40 years, authored the federal legislation that — among other things — resulted in the creation of the U. Olympic Committee as the centralized body for U.