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Article: IOC's Rogge Says Salt Lake Games Will Go On
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- The Washington Post
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- October 10, 2001
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Despite the weekend's bombing of Afghanistan by American and
British forces, International Olympic Committee President Jacques
Rogge said yesterday that the IOC still plans to go forward with the
2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
He also said the organization is not considering moving the 2004
Summer Games from Athens, despite construction delays that have drawn
criticism from IOC members.
Rogge, who said he is evaluating military tensions on a daily
basis, said he spoke for three hours Monday with Salt Lake Olympic
Committee President Mitt Romney during a flight from Salt Lake City
to Chicago. The conversation, Rogge said, assured him that
"everything that is humanly possible is in place" ...