New IOC President Starts Work

Jacques Rogge, the new president of the International Olympic Committee started work today.

He was officially handed the key to the IOC offices and, symbolically, to the Olympic movement in a ceremony at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

The former Judge on the World Court in the Hague, Keba Mbaye, first Vice President of the IOC, made the presentation in the place of the hospitalised Juan Antonio Samaranch.

Mr. Rogge gave a short presentation of his goals which include making the Olympic movement more transparent and democratic but also returning the focus of the Olympic movement to the youth of the world.

One of the first orders of business today for Rogge was to ask Denis Oswald, President of FISA to meet with him. The two met just after the presentation of the key.