LONDON OLYMPICS FILE THEFT: 10 OFFICIALS OF 2016 OLYMPICS DISMISSED

Ten officials of the 2016 Olympics organizing committee have been dismissed on charge of theft of computer files related to the recently concluded 2012 London Olympics. What a scandal! A spokesman of the 2016 Rio Di Janeiro Olympics organizing committee told this to AFP. The Rio officials who were working with the staff of the London Olympics downloaded those internal documents without taking permission of the concerned authorities when the London Olympics was going on. The spokesman further informed that these Brazilian officials had worked at the London Olympics 2012 in London on partnership basis & although they did have permission to access the archives, they did not have permission to download documents. The Rio Olympics 2016 organizing committee informed in a statement that the attitude of these officials was contrary to the main basis of relationship between the two organizations-mutual faith and trust. It was further informed in the statement that the perpetrators of this criminal act have been identified & the London Olympics 2012 organizing committee & the Rio Olympics 2016 organizing committee have jointly brought the situation under control instantaneously. The downloaded documents have been returned & the officials involved have been fired from the committee. Terming it as a discrete incident, the Rio officials have said that ten of their staff worked at the London Olympics & that, as soon as the head of the London Olympics committee (Sebastian Coe) came to know about the incident from published news, he informed it to his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Thuman by phone & asked him to take instant measures. We hope there would be no repeat of such a heinous incident in the future.