Heat Is On As Turin Struggles to Avoid Meltdown ; Days From the Lighting of the Winter Olympic Flame, Fears Grow That the Organisers Are Not Ready.
Evening Standard - London › February 07, 2006
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ATHENS on ice is probably the best way to describe Turin's frantic, lastminute preparations for Friday's start to the Winter Olympics.
Like the Greeks, who faced a dramatic race against time to be ready for the 2004 Summer Games after numerous delays and controversies, Italy is causing Olympic leaders more headaches with just three days to the opening ceremony.See the full content of this document
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Heat Is On As Turin Struggles to Avoid Meltdown ; Days From the Lighting of the Winter Olympic Flame, Fears Grow That the Organisers Are Not Ready.
The nightmare scenario is that the critical mistakes Atlanta organisers made in the calamitous 1996 Summer Games in crucial areas like transport and communications are in danger of being repeated in the Italian snow.
One leading International Olympic Committee member, with decades of Winter Games expe...See the full content of this document
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