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Athens Games will be best ever: Rogge
NICOSIA,
MAY 26.
The Athens Olympics will be the best Games ever, the International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge, said on Tuesday.
"I have no doubt whatever the Athens Games will be the best ever,'' Rogge told reporters in Cyprus, where he arrived after a visit to Greece where he toured the Olympic complex.
Asked about fears of a terrorist attack during the Games in August, Mr. Rogge said, "You can never be 100 per cent certain sure, but everything possible is being done. Security has been a major concern ever since the terrorist attack during the 1972 Games in Munich,'' he said, referring to the attack by Palestinian terrorists against the Israeli Olympic team, when 11 athletes were killed.
Mr. Rogge's visit to Cyprus was the first ever by an IOC president.
In Athens, he met Premier Costas Caramanlis and toured the main stadium. On Monday, Rogge attended a ceremony on the Pnyx Hill facing the ancient Acropolis to mark the start of an annual sports seminar in Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were born 2,780 years ago. — AP
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