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The proceedings opened Monday with the IOC first vice president, Anita DeFrantz of the United States, acting as the chair. DeFrantz, after an emotional visit to an old west African slave-trading slave-trading center, declared her candidacy candi-dacy Sunday to become the first female and first black IOC president. presi-dent. IOC director general Francois Carrard said Samaranch traveled from Switzerland to his home city of Barcelona, Spain, to see his personal person-al physician. "He's very sad he could not be here for the opening. Holding the meeting in Africa was very important for him." The last time the IOC board met in Africa was in January 1978 in Tunis, Tunisia. "I wanted before finishing my mandate to have one meeting of the government of the IOC in Africa," Samaranch said last week. He said the Dakar meetings were also intended to pay homage to Keba Mbaye, a Senegalese judge who has been a longtime IOC executive exec-utive and Samaranch confidant. Carrard said he didn't believe Samaranch's illness was a matter of serious concern. "The man has been working very hard lately," he said. Samaranch is due to step down in July. His successor will be chosen at the IOC session in Moscow, where he was elected in 1980. With the 2002 Winter Games just 12 months away, this might have been the perfect time for IOC leaders lead-ers to meet in Salt Lake City to get a first-hand look at preparations. Instead, the board gathered Sunday in a place about as far removed from Utah's snow-covered Wasatch Mountains as you can get -- the balmy coast of west Africa. Senegal is a former French colony and slave-trading center on the westernmost tip of the continent. Rather than viewing the ski courses, bobsled runs and skating venues of Utah, the IOC officials are meeting a few hundred yards from the pounding Atlantic surf in a hotel surrounded by palm trees, tennis ten-nis courts and a 9-hole golf course. The IOC board usually meets at least once in the city preparing to host the next summer or winter games. But in the wake of the Salt Lake bribery scandal, a planned meeting in Utah twice has been moved elsewhere. else-where. The IOC said the Dakar meetings meet-ings are a symbolic gesture toward Africa and not a snub to Salt Lake. "It's not necessary to meet there," Samaranch said last week. "The coordination commission for Salt Lake City is working very well. The people from Salt Lake City will come to Dakar. Things are going well." With Feb. 8 marking the one-year-out date until the opening of the Winter Games, Salt Lake organizing organ-izing chief Mitt Romney is traveling to Dakar to give his latest progress report to the IOC. "We do not feel slighted in any way that the IOC is meeting in If a picture is worth a thousand Words, a visit to www.tkeckateaux.com W iii i eave you 1 1 opeechless. Looking for trie perfect condominium in a perfect setting? 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"My perception is Mitt and his team have really taken hold of things and made up for any lost time and momentum caused by the scandal," scan-dal," said Dick Pound, an influential IOC member from Canada. "The financial problems are behind them and they have good facilities." Also high on the agenda will be the latest update from organizers of the troubled 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Preparations have been plagued by construction delays, venue changes and leadership leader-ship shakeups. In the latest retreat from original plans, the Greek government last Thursday scrapped plans to build a seaside multisports complex for the games and said the venues will be moved to other locations. In December, the IOC declared that Athens was back on track and ruled out any chance of the games being stripped from Greece. "It's much, much better," Samaranch said. "Now the government govern-ment is really involved." Jacques Rogge, the IOC official with oversight for the 2004 Games, will return to Athens on Feb. 15 for another inspection. In an interview, he cited two key issues - the' environmental controversy contro-versy over the proposed rowing venue and the government's antiterrorism anti-terrorism efforts. Americans preparing for pressure ST. ANTON, Austria (AP) With the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake . City just a year away, the U.S. ski team is using the World Championships as a class in stress management. The Americans are learning to handle the pressures of competing in a major international arena by observing the mighty Austrian squad, loaded down with the expectations and the strain of competing at home. "You need to train, practice and prepare, you need to think how it will feel at the Olympic Games," said Bill Egan, coach of the U.S. men's team. "Right now in the program we're working on how to deal with the pressure at the Olympics." Considered the final big test ahead of Salt Lake, these worlds are being used as a measuring rod. And so far, the Austrians have fallen disappointingly dis-appointingly short, failing to win any of the three gold medals awarded. The Americans, by contrast have surpassed expectations. Daron Rahlves won the super-G gold ahead of Austria's Stefan Eberharter, dropping home hero Hermann Mater to third in what is considered tne rierminators time an American man had won a world championship gold. In the women's super-G, the Austrians failed to place among the top seven, while American Megan Gerety finished fin-ished an impressive fourth. The Austrians were again thwarted thwart-ed in the women's combined when Renate Goetschl, poised to win, straddled a gate in the final slalom leg. Instead it was German Olympic silver medalist Martina Ertl who won, in a comeback from knee ligament liga-ment surgery barely a month before. "The Austrians have plenty of pressure." Egan said. "They are try ing iu win. iviy iceiing is mai mey are atraid to lose and when you are preoccupied pre-occupied with your result, your chances of losing are much greater." skiers. "We preadh all the time that it's very important to be able to perform under pressure." Foan said "In mv mind a meat athlete doesnl feel .'. pressure, he's so focused and ore- pared that he doesnl allow any interference inter-ference in the task at hand. While the American men have shown they can climb the podium, the women are still learning what it takes to go from being a great racer to a great competitor to a great winner. win-ner. Caroline Lalive surged to the forefront in unexpected fashion in the combined, sitting in a strong position posi-tion to win before succumbing to nerves and veerine off course in the final slalom run. Gerety would have climbed the podium in the sud. MOAB 3 Bdrm, 2 Bath, on golf course. $200.00 per night. 649-3834 |