Olympian Bellingham recommended for congressional panel
By EDDIE PELLSDecember 19, 2020 GMT
Gold medalist and former Olympic executive Norm Bellingham and Olympian Eli Bremer have been recommended for a congressional committee to study possible reforms in America’s Olympic system.
Also chosen for the panel by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, were athlete agent Peter Carlisle and former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz.
The picks must be made official by Rep. Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican who controls the spots and is retiring. He has given Lamborn the discretion to choose the members since the USOPC is in his home district, but his office has not yet confirmed the picks.
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yesterday. we caught up with peter carlisle in london yesterday and talked extensively with him about the marketing of michael phelps. now, phelps has millions and millions of dollars in sponsorships with everybody from speedo to subway to head and shoulders shampoo. now the challenge for carlisle really is how to market michael more as an ambassador of the global sport of swimming rather than simply as an olympic athlete. this game is a punctuation mark on michael s career than previous games for an olympic athlete, you got to establish the brand at the games and if you don t, then you don t have much of a market. michael, given the past, this has had a very different feel. more of a legacy game for him and a platform from where we go for the rest of his life really. carlisle was telling us that after the olympics he will make a big announcement about yet