(ATR) Australian Olympic Committee President and IOC member John Coates was closely involved in the preparation and staging of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In this edition of Around the Rings Radio, he talks to ATR Editor Ed Hula about those Games as well as preparations he is supervising in Tokyo as chair of the IOC Coordination Commission.
AroundTheRings · ATRadio with John Coates - Remembering Sydney 2000
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