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Olympic Boycotts
LAUSANNE, Switzerland--The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday rejected proposals to exclude boycotting nations from subsequent Olympics, saying such action would punish the athletes more than the governments initiating the boycotts.
But a special two-day session of the 88-member committee decided that national sports officials will be barred in future from any Olympic Games where their teams are absent.
The committee renewed its "full support" to the organizing committee of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, which are threatened by a renewed Soviet bloc boycott.
IOC President Juan--Antonio Samaranch told a news conference he was "very optimistic the world is at the beginning of a new period of detente" that would help to avoid a new boycott.
"But if the political situation is any worse, or the same as it is today, we can be sure that we will once again face difficulties" at the Seoul Games, he said.
"We cannot rule the world," he added. "The world is ruled by politicians, not by sports officials."
The IOC denounced "the punishment of athletes" caused by political boycotts of the 1976 Games in Montreal, the 1980 Games in Moscow and the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and declared:
"The solution to this serious problem does not consist of imposing further punishment affecting the athletes for whom the Olympic Games exist. Rather, it lies in identifying the true motives for non-participation and pointing out that such actions will isolate the representatives of the National Olympic Committees of such countries, upon their own volition, from the Olympic Games."
Samaranch said no representatives of National Olympic Committees of boycotting teams would be given Olympic credentials, the national quota of media representatives from boycotting countries would be halved and the IOC would ask national sports federations to reduce judges and referees from boycotting countries to a minimum.
But Samaranch said IOC members from boycotting countries would not be barred.