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3 Except as permitted by the IOC Executive Board, no competitor who parti<br />
cipates in the Olympic Games may allow his person, name, picture or sports per<br />
formances to be used for advertising purposes during the Olympic Games.<br />
4 The entry or participation of a competitor in the Olympic Games shall not<br />
be conditional on any financial consideration.<br />
Dear friends, you have no doubt notice the enormous changes in the status of<br />
the Olympic athlete:<br />
1. He is not subject to any financial restriction, except that his participation in<br />
the Olympic Games must not be conditional on any financial consideration (cur<br />
rent paragraph 4).<br />
2. No ban on using, for advertising purposes, the name, image or performance<br />
of an athlete except during the period of the Olympic Games!!!<br />
3. To keep our dignity, if not that of the athletes, we define the conditions of<br />
eligibility for competitors at the Games: respect for the spirit of fair play, refrai<br />
ning from using substances and procedures prohibited by the IOC and compliance<br />
with the IOC Medical Code.<br />
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends of Olympism.<br />
The criticisms I wished to make in my speech were not aimed at the IOC and<br />
its members. Most of them do the best they can to contain the wave of exaggerations<br />
and digressions which threatens to drown the Olympic Movement. President<br />
Samaranch has often had to use tough words to limit the decline. My disagreement<br />
with several of my colleagues is due to the fact that I have never stopped<br />
being a romantic. Not one with retrograde tendencies, but in the desire to be realistic,<br />
faithful to an Idea, the Idea which was born at this place, matured during a<br />
time when it was hoped that the restoration of the Games would place Olympism<br />
back in the place it deserves, and grew old through the fatigue which accompanied<br />
its universal journey through time. All the legal issues which have concerned<br />
the Olympic Movement are linked with this evolution. And that is why some aspects<br />
of them have a social content which closely follows the needs of each age.<br />
My criticisms are not addressed at the majority which has not managed to prevent<br />
a minority from violating an Idea. They are aimed rather at all those who use<br />
sport for political, economic or any other gain. Those who have transformed Citius,<br />
Altius, Fortius into faster investment, higher profits and stronger exploitation.<br />
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