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Olympics will go on,
with added security
By Linda Robertson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
SALT LAKE CITY (KRT) — A
lack of snow used to be the biggest
worry gnawing at organizers of the
Winter Olympics. But now, six
weeks after the terrorist attacks on
New York City and Washington,
D.C., and 109 days before the 2002
opening ceremonies, concern
about security has superseded all
other preparation issues.
Fear that the Salt Lake City
Games could be the target of
terrorism will alter the ambience
of the event. Metal detectors will
be everywhere — even at the
entrances to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Temple
Square downtown. Surveillance
cameras, National Guardsmen and
plainclothes Secret Service agents
will be watching spectators. Miles
of fencing will mar the landscape.
Even the stuffed animals fans
bring to the figure skating venue to
toss upon the ice will be
scrutinized. The five interlocking
Olympic rings may start to
resemble loops of razor wire.
But one thing is certain,
according to Olympic leaders: The
Games will go on. Postponing,
canceling or moving the Games
are not options.
“The Olympics have to go
forward,” said Salt Lake
Organizing Committee president
Mitt Romney. “You proceed with
the Games almost regardless of the
turbulence. There is no good
contingency worth considering.”
In fact, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
said the state won't purchase
additional event cancellation
insurance. Its $150 million policy
covers only a fraction of the
money invested in the Games.
International Olympic
Committee president Jacques
Rogge hasn't altered his plan to
stay in the athletes village, which
he said will be “the most secure
place in the world” during the
Feb. 8-24 Games.
“The Olympics is an answer to the
present violence and should not be a
victim of violence,” Rogge said. “I
don't know what we do for humanity
if we were to cancel the Games. ”
World Wars have previously been
the only cause of cancellation — in
1916, 1940 and 1944. The Games
have gone on despite other conflicts,
such as in Korea and Vietnam, and
Soviet invasions of Hungary and
Afghanistan.
“There is no parallel for the
present situation," said John
MacAloon, a professor of social
sciences at the University of Chicago
and an expert on the history and
politics of the Olympics.
“Technically speaking, we are not a
country at war. I don't think the
overriding issue is the security of the
Games themselves, but whether the
world will be secure enough in
February for teams to feel
comfortable about traveling.”
Romney said he has received
200 letters from international
Olympic officials in support of the
Games.
He is also confident that the
$270 million security plan —
strengthened Thursday by a
pledge of an additional $24.5
million from the $40 billion
congressional anti-terrorism fund
— will make the venues and the
skies above them safe for athletes
and spectators.
A new restriction that has been
proposed would ground all flights
out of local airports during the
opening ceremonies, which
President Bush is expected to
attend.
“There's a wide range of
restrictive actions you can take
when you know precisely when
and where an event is taking
place,” Romney said.
American athletes said they
don't feel they'll be in danger
when they compete here.
“I went to the in-line skating
world championships in
Colombia in 1993 and armed
guards escorted us to the arena,
which was full of guards with
machine guns,” said speedskater
Derek Parra. “But once I got on the
track I didn't even notice them. I
was focused on my race. ”
During a recent training trip to
Europe, skier Picabo Street heard
European skiers discussing the risks
of traveling to and within the U.S.
“Some competitors were fairly
adamant about not coming here,"
she said. “I think they are
paranoid to come here for training
or for the Olympics. But they’re
not going to skip the Olympics.”
Street said the attacks have
made her more “paranoid” about
airplanes, but also more resolute
about racing.
“It's definitely made travel kind
of scary and interesting,” she said.
“By competing, I get my chance to
give America something back
because it's been kind of bleak the
last month and a half. ”
© 2001, The Miami Herald.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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