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News, information and stories about the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and the Olympics in general up until 2007.

Friday, November 12, 2004

Olympic Histrionics

The histrionic threat by Valentino Castellani, organiser of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, to resign yesterday (as reported on this site) has been withdrawn; how surprising!

Following a meeting with the IOC president, Jacques Rogge, and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi; Castellani's ego was duly mollified.

The division of powers between himself and Mario Pescante, the government appointed games supervisor, had been clarified to his satisfaction.

Castellani, a former mayor of Turin, said:

"..a page had been turned.." and he would remain head of organising committee through the games in February 2006.

What a relief!

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