BP's involvement has not been a major issue for the International Olympic Committee, whose coordination commission recently visited and highlighted transportation as the major area for concern in traffic-clogged London.
Members of the inspection committee were greeted by a small group of anti-Dow protesters when they arrived for the coordination commission meeting in central London on Friday morning.
The I.O.C. coordination commission chairman, Jacques Rogge, and Australia's customs minister, Amanda Vanstone, released a statement outlining the collaboration between the Australian Sports Drug Agency, the I.O.C. and the Sydney organizing committee.
IOC coordination commission member Alex Gilady said he believed protests would ease after the Paris and San Francisco sections of the relay.
"We share the same concerns as the Japanese public does about corruption," said the Australian, who heads the IOC's coordination commission for the Tokyo Games.
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Ng, an I.O.C. vice president from Singapore, said Jean-Claude Killy, the chairman of the committee's coordination commission for Sochi, has been in talks with the "highest authority in Russia" to resolve the issue.
IOC vice-president John Coates, who is chair of the coordination commission that liaises with the host organising committee, said it had been reassured that the review would not affect the delivery of the stadium in time for the Games.
"Basically, I think they are far ahead of most Games I have experienced," said Dr. Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who is chairman of the International Olympic Committee's coordination commission and who has been involved in 14 previous Summer and Winter Games.
