Tibetan student activist Tenzin Dorjee (L) speaks to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge ahead of the Beijing Games flame-lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia on 24 March 2008. Dorjee, who called on China Sunday to keep its 'bloodstained' torch out of Tibet, was detained by Greek police on Monday but was later released. Getty Images logo Getty Images 22 months ago

Tibetan student activist Tenzin Dorjee (L) speaks to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge ahead of the Beijing Games flame-lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia on 24 March 2008. Dorjee, who called on China Sunday to keep its 'bloodstained' torch out of Tibet, was detained by Greek police on Monday but was later released.

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  2. FILE - At left, in a Jan. 6, 2010, file photo, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun speaks at a news conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. At right, in an Oct. 3, 2009, file photo, IOC president Jacques Rogge speaks at the opening of the Olympic Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. IOC president Jacques Rogge will meet with the top two leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee in Vancouver to improve relations after Chicago's defeat in its bid for the 2016 Games. Rogge tells The Associated Press in an interview that he has arranged a meeting with USOC chairman Larry Probst and new chief executive officer Scott Blackmun as part of an effort to improve ties and bring the American body back into the international fold.
  3. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), adjusts his earphone during a press conference after a IOC Executive Board meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009.
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  7. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), speaks during a press conference after a IOC Executive Board meeting at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec.10, 2009.
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  16. IOC Evaluation Commission chair Nawal El Moutawakel, right, Brazil's Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman, second from right, Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral, second from left, and Rio de Janeiro's mayor Eduardo Paes, left, speak in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Rio de Janeiro will hold the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

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