Italy bans U.S. security guards from Winter Games

14 Jul 2005

Italy will not allow the United States or any other country to bring its own security personnel to guard athletes during next February’s Winter Olympics, the government official in charge of the Games said on Thursday. “Italy is perfectly able to guarantee security,” Mario Pescante, Undersecretary and Extraordinary Commissioner for the Turin Olympics, told a news conference. Full Story

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