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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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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As we've said before, if we find a city that's capable to bid on the Olympic games ... we will be a much stronger candidate from the United States because of the strengthening of our ties.
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She's been a leader; she's been gracious; she's somebody that cares for so many youngsters that are training in our country, and she is a real loss to all of the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and to the world. And she's made a courageous decision.
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The financial condition when the new board was elected was very unattractive. We were surprised to find that major bank loans were necessary to fund 'ongoing operations', and that the United States Olympic Committee was basically in debt.
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The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.