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Representant Les Etats-Unis D'Amerique: Reforming The Usoc Charter, Christopher T. Murray
Representant Les Etats-Unis D'Amerique: Reforming The Usoc Charter, Christopher T. Murray
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article proposes a reorganization of Olympic and amateur sports in the States not yet entertained by Congress, the USOC, or the legal academy. Congress should revoke the USOC's charter as a patriotic organization. The USOC should be divided and reformed. The Olympic-related functions of the USOC should be recast into a government corporation. Thus, the financial, political, and legal functions of representing the United States in the Olympic movement would be administered like those of a corporation. The governance of amateur sports should be removed from the USOC's charter and privatized into an association of the individual sports.
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