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Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki became the first woman ever to lead a successful Olympic bid when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided Friday that Athens would host the games over rival Rome. She may also be the first woman organizer of the games...
...Canadian IOC member Dick Pound told The Crimson yesterday that Angelopoulos-Daskalaki's leadership was central in bringing the games to Athens, which had failed in its bid for the centennial Olympics...
...Angelopoulos-Daskalaki] tackled the problems head on and had an answer for everyone," Pound said. "She got them off their high horse of saying that the IOC owes Greece....She exerted a real discipline over the whole process...
...come in, and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games is breathing a collective sigh of relief with the news that the games will probably turn a slim profit. Financed almost entirely through private sponsorship, the games had come under enough fire for their crass commercialism that the IOC decided to recommend that future games be financed by a mixture of public and private funds. In Atlanta, the games had almost no public guarantees, meaning that ACOG would be responsible for any shortfall. After optimistically predicting large profits in the months before the games, ACOG officials had toned-down their...
...Britain's Royal family doesn't have problems enough, IOC member Princess Anne was recently criticized in Parliament for her failure to deliver Manchester, England, as an Olympic host city...