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President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Juan Antonio
Samaranch has expressed his wishes for the Chinese people in the
upcoming new century.
In a brief interview with Xinhua in Lausanne Monday, December 4,
on the sidelines of the IOC World Conference on Sport and New Media,
Samaranch asked China's official news agency, one of the participants
at the conference, to convey his "best wishes to my friends
and the people in the People's Republic of China".
"I hope that in the new century China will have a bright future
in sports and economic development," he said.
The 80-year-old IOC president also wishes Beijing, one of the five
cities bidding the 2008 Olympic Games, good luck. He said that the
new media and the Internet would have a tremendous positive impact
on the promotion of sport and the Olympic movement.
He did not rule out the possibility that the capability of the
broad-band new media would become one of the factors which might
affect the decision of the final host city of the 2008 games.
The other four cities are Istanbul of Turkey, Osaka of Japan, Paris
of France, and Toronto of Canada.
(People's Daily 12/05/2000)
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