31. Ganga took advantage of the tangled web that connects big players in the Olympic movement. 32. He always raised important questions about the direction of the Olympic movement. 33. He came to the job with the enthusiasm of a former distance runner who has been around the Olympic movement for two decades. 34. He believed that experiencing the diversity and breadth of the Olympic movement would go a long way toward the cause of openness. 35. He has seen the Olympic movement through two major boycotts, the breakup of the Eastern bloc, and several doping scandals. 36. He preaches that the Olympic movement should use more of its wealth on the less fortunate. 37. He has made great contributions to the Olympic movement but he will be too defensive and too focused on defending the past rather than adapting to a new future. 38. He said athletes who did not use drugs had the common perception that the Olympic movement regarded drug-testing as a public relations exercise. 39. He is from a tiny kingdom between South Africa and Mozambique, and is not considered a major power broker within the Olympic movement. 40. He wants to spread the Golden Rule lessons of Islam, his religion, and of the Olympic movement. |
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