|
Olympic team's despair at blasts
(Theadvertiser)
Updated: 2005-07-08 09:05 LONDON'S victorious Olympic
bid team went from elation to despair overnight as they watched from Singapore
television footage of the deadly blasts that ripped through the British capital.
"We are disappointed and distraught," the chief executive of the London 2012
team, Keith Mills, said at the convention centre here where less than 24 hours
earlier the British team won the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Mills said the members of the London bid team still in Singapore, which
included city mayor Ken Livingstone, bid leader Sebastian Coe and British
Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell, were "completely and utterly devastated".
"This is our town, our city, our home, we are praying for the people who have
been affected," he said.
Coe released a statement as he and his colleagues left for the airport to
return to London tonight saying: "The entire 2012 team are shocked and deeply
saddened by today's tragic events in London".
"Our thoughts are with the
families of the bereaved and all those who have been injured in this despicable
terrorist attack," he said.
|
 | | | 2005 East China Sea United Search and Rescue Drill | | |  | | | Search-and-rescue drill in the East China Sea | | |  | | | Anti-Japanese invasion war commemorated | | |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Today's
Top News |
|
|
|
Top China
News |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
