Oly: Iraq body to be dissolved, talks to rebuild planned

AAP Sports News (Australia), May, 2003

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By Ossian Shine

LONDON, May 7 Reuters - Iraq's Olympic body will be dissolved next week following a report into complaints that athletes were tortured in the country, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said today.

The IOC will rubberstamp a motion to dissolve the Iraqi National Olympic Committee at a meeting in Madrid next week and has already lined up talks with a group of exiles to rebuild sport in the war-ravaged nation, Rogge announced.

"The (Ethics Commission) recommendation to dissolve is exactly what I expected," he said in a telephone conference from the IOC's headquarters in Switzerland.

"It is a strong...

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