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Al-Ahram Weekly 24 - 30 June 1999 Issue No. 435 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 24 - 30 June 1999 Issue No. 435
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Profile Features Interview Travel Sports Time Out Chronicles People Cartoons Letters And the winner is...
THE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee chose Italy's Turin by 53 votes to 36 to host the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, spurning long-time Swiss favourite Sion. The decision, announced by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, was greeted with wild shrieks from the Turin bid team, but provoked fury in Switzerland, where confidence had run high that the Alpine city of Sion would win its third Olympic bid. Sion was left in stunned silence when Samaranch announced the winner. A crowd of 5,000, many of whom had partied through the night in the Place de la Planta, stared at the big screen in disbelief as Samaranch brought the celebrations to an abrupt halt with his statement, "The host of the 2006 Games will be Turin." Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema hailed Turin's victory as a fresh success for an increasingly self-confident nation. Italy had not landed any major sporting event since the 1990 soccer World Cup. Italy last hosted the Winter Games in 1956.Blatter gets IOC seat
SWITZERLAND, spurned in the contest to host the 2006 Winter Games, got its fourth IOC member when the committee elected world soccer boss Sepp Blatter. Blatter, who will be an "ex-officio" IOC member as president of FIFA, joins hockey boss Rene Fasel, rowing chief Denis Oswald and Marc Hodler, the veteran skiing administrator who blew the whistle on Olympic corruption last December.FBI tips
THE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee has given its members legal advice on what to do if an FBI agent taps them on the shoulder during visits to the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading inquiries into the Salt Lake City vote-buying scandal and IOC sources say it has already interviewed three IOC members, including Swiss whistle-blower Marc Hodler.(Compiled from news agencies)
