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Olympic team's despair at blasts
"We have full confidence in the London authorities to secure the Games," IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies told reporters in Singapore. Davies said the IOC did not believe the attacks were related to London winning the right to host the Games. "This is not at all related to the Olympics," she said. IOC President Jacques Rogge issued a statement saying he had personally expressed in writing his sympathy to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Livingstone. London police said at least two people were killed and 150 seriously injured in the series of blasts that ripped through London underground trains and a bus during morning peak-hour traffic in what Blair said were "terrorist attacks". Livingstone described the events as a slaughter aimed at the average Londoner. "This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful," he said. "It was aimed at working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and
Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old, an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter
irrespective of any consideration."
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