Steering group to plot Olympic success, says report

A STEERING group should be established to co-ordinate preparations for the 2012 Olympics and prevent the damaging rows between sporting bodies that affected the Irish performances at previous Games, a report will state today.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Sport and Tourism began examining the issue following the disappointing Irish showing in the Athens Olympics. The report will label the Athens performance “a fiasco”, and make recommendations for change.

Chief among these will be that the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism establish and chair a steering committee to co-ordinate and manage the 2012 Olympic “road map”.