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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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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he had heard from several IOC members who said they were confused at the time of the voting, believing softball was merely an extension of baseball, and now regretted their vote.
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I think New York did a great job. But the commercial terms changed, security rules changed, the guarantees changed. We were at a disadvantage, in my view.
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I think that Bob represents a big jump forward in talent.
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If elected, I would impose stiff spending caps to rein in the out-of-control spending.
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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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The dreams of young people from around the world who aspire to compete in the Olympic Games in softball and baseball were dealt a setback today. We are disappointed the IOC chose to not reconsider its decision.
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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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We don't want to enter and not win. We don't want cities spending an awful lot of money and not have a full chance to be victorious.
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We have to strengthen ourselves and that's what this announcement is about today.
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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're pleased that they're even discussing it in the hallways.
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We are looking less favorably toward 2016 bidding at this moment,