25 — In San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee the United States Supreme Court rules that the Gay Games may not use the word "Olympic" in its name because of the trademark held by the USOC.
In 1995, he accepted the position as executive director of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), where he served until 2000.
As president of the USOC during the 1968 Summer Olympics, he issued the order expelling African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their raised-fist Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
At the age of eighteen, Burgener moved from Kansas to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work and train as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOC), under her head coach Zygmunt Smalcerz, gold medalist for the flyweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, representing Poland.
The band as usual drew notice while performing, this time from the US Olympic Committee (USOC), and was invited to play at the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Ultimately, Chicago was elected by the USOC to be the U.S. bid city for 2016.
The international sporting event was later renamed the Gay Games after the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sued Waddell for using the word "Olympic" in the original name.