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« on: October 26, 2010, 10:13:43 am »

IOC Plans Olympics Center For Haiti


MARK WALSH, Associated Press Writer
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) ― The International Olympic Committee announced plans Monday to build a multi-sports development center in the earthquake-hit nation of Haiti.

IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the center will represent a "lasting legacy" as the island nation tries to recover from January's quake that killed as many as 300,000 people.

The Haiti center will be the second in the IOC's "Sports For Hope Program," following a $10 million facility in Zambia that opened in May and caters for around 1,000 athletes per month training in 21 different sports.

Adams said the Haiti center will be modeled on the Zambian facility, though the exact location, size and cost is yet to be decided.

He said the IOC executive board heard positive reports about the Zambia center, which boasts outdoor and indoor tracks, fields and other facilities as well as classrooms, a library, and Internet lab.

"One of the main reasons we chose Haiti was because of the recent earthquake there, so it was decided that would be a good place to take our help and try to take sport development to the people of Haiti," Adams said.

The IOC spokesman said the hope was that a permanent center would be more useful to rebuilding efforts than one-time aid donations.

"Straight humanitarian aid is always welcome," he said. "But I think the IOC felt that what we could do best is to offer the help and expertise that we have, which is obviously in the sporting domain."


He said the Olympic center "provides a more lasting legacy."

Adams also said an IOC-sponsored annual athletes' forum will be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2011.

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A nice concentration camp for all those Haitians that didn't perish in the earthquake and the cholera outbreak?   Angry
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 10:28:47 am »

They obviously don't care about the poor Haitians that still have no roof over their heads and dieing of diseases. Instead of helping these people they choose to waste millions of dollars on a stupid olympics center! Angry
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 11:12:30 am »

They obviously don't care about the poor Haitians that still have no roof over their heads and dieing of diseases. Instead of helping these people they choose to waste millions of dollars on a stupid olympics center! Angry

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