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Article: SALT LAKE 2002: With Samaranch era over, Jacques Rogge takes center stage
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- January 29, 2002
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Dateline: LAUSANNE, Switzerland
Jacques Rogge has attended 14 Olympics as a competitor or official.
As a modest sailor and behind-the-scenes administrator, he went largely
unnoticed.
In Salt Lake City, Rogge will be hard to miss.
The former Belgian surgeon is going to the Winter Games in a new high-
profile role _ president of the International Olympic Committee.
For the first time in two decades, someone other than Juan Antonio
Samaranch will be presiding over the games. Six months after Rogge
was elected to succeed the Spaniard, who ruled the IOC from 1980 to
2001, the winds of change are evident.
In the most visible example, Rogge will stay in the Olympic village ...