ITALY: OLYMPIC GAMES - Canadian cross country skier Becky Scott elected as IOC member.

Record ID: 331815

  • Title: ITALY: OLYMPIC GAMES - Canadian cross country skier Becky Scott elected as IOC member.
  • Date: 26th February 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW IOC COMMITTEE MEMBER BECKY SCOTT SAYING: "It's a great honour because I was elected by my peers, by fellow athletes and a little bit unexpected, I wasn't expecting to be voted in like this but it's a tremendous honour and I'm very much looking forward to representing the athletes."
  • Embargoed: 13th March 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA27ADOYX79L2BWL2974BY0W9KI
  • Story Text: Canadian cross country skier Becky Scott and ice hockey player Saku Koivu of Finland have been elected as members of the International Olympic Committee on Sunday (February 26).
    Athletes at the Turin Winter Olympics voted for Scott and Koivu to represent them on the International Olympic Committee's athletes commission. At the IOC Session in Turin on Sunday, members ratified the vote to include the two athletes, and they will be officially introduced at the closing ceremony.
    Koivu and Scott will serve for eight years on the commission which operates as a link between athletes and the IOC.
    The IOC said 78.2 percent of those eligible cast a vote, higher than in 2002 in Salt Lake City where 70.4 percent voted.
    Candidates had to have participated in the Games in Salt Lake or Turin and never been found guilty of a doping offence.
    Scott said it was a tremendous honour and is looking forward to representing the athletes.
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