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.
"I exclude categorically that the U.S. team or any other team will be able to bring people for their own security..."
Why do I suspect that several teams will suddenly triple the size of their "training staff", and recieve "diplomatic pouches" in big steel boxes from their embassies? |