IOC chief hails 'excellent' Sochi conditions
AFP - Newly elected IOC chief Thomas Bach said Thursday Russia was ready to provide "excellent conditions" for athletes at the Winter Olympics in February.
"We are very pleased with preparations," Bach told a news conference in Tokyo where he was visiting for the first time since the Japanese capital won the right in September to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
"The athletes will have excellent conditions in Sochi," said the German, who was elected as International Olympic Committee president on September 10 and visited the Black Sea resort in late October where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"Having stayed in quite a number of Olympic villages, I can say I was really, really impressed," he said.
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