Peter Ueberroth
Peter Ueberroth
Peter Victor Ueberrothis an American executive. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Baseball from 1984 to 1989. He was recently the chairman of the United States Olympic Committee; he was replaced by Larry Probst in October 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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We applaud his wanting to be absolutely, totally honorable in every way,
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We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,
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It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.
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It is a new injury. But whether there happened to be something else, the same outcome would have happened ? and Emily would be able to compete.
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Our old system is less favorably positioned. To follow the same path would not lead to success in our view. We were doubtful the last meeting, now we're convinced. If we go through this whole process it's not going to work. If we want to bid, we want to win. We have to figure it out and make sure we have everybody on board.
doubtful everybody figure follow last lead less path process success sure system
Our old system is less favorably positioned, ... To follow the same path would not lead to success in our view. We were doubtful the last meeting, now we're convinced. If we go through this whole process it's not going to work. If we want to bid, we want to win. We have to figure it out and make sure we have everybody on board.
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I think that Bob represents a big jump forward in talent.
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We have to strengthen ourselves and that's what this announcement is about today.
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We don't have a completely level playing field, in our understanding, from the I.O.C.. We are confident that we will get there, but we are not there.
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we discussed whether we should or not bid, and we have not come to a conclusion whether we should or not bid.
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The international landscape has changed and nothing less than a concerted, engaging effort worldwide will allow us to be successful.
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The federal government has to understand the game has changed and we'll have to change to be competitive. We don't want to enter and not win, or not have a good chance to win. We don't want cities to be spending an awful lot of money and not get a full chance to be victorious.
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The USOC is dedicated to see to it that women's softball does not miss its turn in 2012. We're hopeful and, in a humble way, hope to try and influence people to reconsider a decision that was a bad decision to eliminate a women's sport.
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This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.