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Doping Antonio’s concern
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colorado. Apr 28: Nine years after Ben Johnson and three decades after the fight started. the boss of the Olympics is starting to point fingers when asked why he's losing the battle against drugs in sports, reports In an unusually candid assessment, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said Sunday that some international sports federations Ignore the doping problem among worldclass athletes.
"Doping for these organisations is not existing." he said.
Although he declined to identify which groups have turned a blind eye to the situation, Samaranch said scrutiny of big sports such as swimming and track was misdirected.
"All the attention and all the criticism is going to the organisations that are fighting drugs," he said.
Samaranch, finishing three days of meetings with the US Olympic Committee, also said that organizers of next year’s Winter Games in Nagano. Japan, needed to polish their image at home and abroad.
Now in its final year of preparations, the Nagano effort has been hit in recent months by complaints about high prices, overloaded infrastructure and sniping between local organizers and sports officials in Tokyo.
"They need to sell the games
better to the world and Japan," Samaranch said. "...If you go to Tokyo now, you get the feeling that the Nagano Games are not so important."
Samaranch visited the USOC’s headquarters to help dedicate a dlrs 23.8 million expansion of its main training
center. He also attended two days of meetings of the USOC's executive committee, which heard that seven US cities now are lining up to bld for the 2008 Olympics, with a Thursday deadline looming for applications.
USOC executive director Dick Schultz said commitment checks had been received from
Cincinnati, Houston and Seattle, with groups in Baltimore. New York. San Francisco and Washington saying they also would meet the deadline.
"We re pleasantly surprised." Schultz said.
As recently as three weeks ago, Schultz, president Bill Hybl and other USOC officials said it looked as if the original group of eight potential bidders had been cut nearly in half.
Boston and Chicago, among the original hopefuls, have dropped out. But the others remain involved and were joined last week by a bid from the Bay area.
After the deadline for commitments’passes. the USOC's executive committee will recommend to the 100-member board of directors whether to bid for a sixth Olympics since 1960.
The board would then take a mail ballot beginning in late May. and the executive committee would announce whether a US bid would be pursued at its next meeting in Indianapolis on June 28.
Although the United States has been awarded ah unprecedented five Olympics since 1960 — including last year's Centennial Games in Atlanta — some in the USOC feel it's not too soon to bid again. Samaranch said the timing would not hurt another American bld.
"From Los Angeles (in 1984) to Atlanta was 12 years, and 2008 would be 12 years again." he said.