ROGGE LISTENS TO ADVISOR DURING MEDIA CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY, 2000-02-16 (photo)

Dr Jacques Rogge (L), a Belgium surgeon who oversees Sydney's Olympic preperations for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), listens to an advisor during a media conference in Sydney February 16. Rogge said the New South Wales government was only following a law barring athletes who had failed drugs tests from using subsidised facilities after British sprinter Linford Christie was told he could no longer coach his stable of runners at a government-owned training ground in Sydney because of an IAAF drugs suspension after he tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone. DG/DL