Among the dignitaries present were International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge and London organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said his thoughts and those of the whole Olympic movement were with the victims.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge told BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier that that deployment had been "a good strategy".
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said he stood stands by the decision to eliminate wrestling from the Olympics and would work with wrestling officials to try to save the sport.
After meeting bigwigs including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who said "Lord Bates is setting a fine example of what it means to live by the Olympic values every day, " and Pope Benedict XVI, who welcomed him with the observation "You've walked a long way, " Lord Bates is on the home stretch.
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"This tragedy casts a shadow over these Games, " said a visibly upset International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge, while International Luge Federation chief Josef Fendt said the incident was "the gravest thing that can happen in sport".
Nikolau, Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee, and took part in a video conference on climate change.
The Secretary-General and his wife then met with the President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, and Mrs.
London marks the final games for the 70-year-old president of the International Olympic Committee, whose decade-long reign weathered near-calamity in Athens and political firestorm in Beijing.
Reedie, president of the British Olympic Association and an International Olympic Committee member, revealed that London would be the favoured choice should the BOA decide to bid for the Games again.
In this case, his arrogance appears to have caused him and his handlers to believe that, by taking the unprecedented step of having an American president show up in person to lobby the International Olympic Committee (IOC), his rock-star status would assure Chicago's selection.
Joao Havelange, who led soccer's world governing body from 1974 to 1998 and served on the International Olympic Committee for almost half a century, resigned as FIFA's honorary president after a FIFA-commissioned report showed he had accepted bribes in the late 1990s.
The White House confirmed Monday that President Obama will fly on Thursday to Copenhagen, Denmark, where the International Olympic Committee will be reviewing bids from several countries on Friday.
Rio de Janeiro beat out Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid to become the first South American city to host the Games, something President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva made clear during his pitch to the International Olympic Committee.
Prior to FIFA, he served as president of the Brazilian Sports Confederation from 1958 to 1973 and was also on the International Olympic Committee, until his resignation -- because of his links with the FIFA scandal -- in 2011.
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