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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Baseball deserves to be in the Olympic Games. I think there's some reorganization that needs to be done internationally and domestically. But softball is and was ready to be in the Olympic Games.
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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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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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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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I think that Bob represents a big jump forward in talent.
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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 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 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 learned a little from watching Jacques Chirac and watching Tony Blair walking the halls in Singapore, ... If we want to compete, we're going to be smart. It's got to be a coordinated effort so we know we have support at all levels and nobody's stranded out there.
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We learned a little bit from watching Chirac and Tony Blair walking the halls in Singapore, ... It's a coordinated effort. We want to have support from all levels so nobody is stranded. . . . I think Senator Clinton did a great job, but if you're going to win, I think we need to have every single part of our country lined up.
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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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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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I don't think we've moved at all on that issue.