Hello all, Most people I talked to these days do not have much sports on their minds - and what else can you expect. Most mailings lists I know have been keeping pretty much silent in the knowledge most things are too trivial to report or discuss compared to what fellow athletes and sports lovers are going through in the United States. Thoughts and prayers are with them, as you can see below also those of the IAAF and their president, Lamine Diack. Courtesy IAAF Media Department, Wilmar Kortleever PS this was send way earlier, I just hadn't gotten around to forwarding it. IAAF CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACKS ON USA 12 September 2001 Transcript of a letter sent to President George Bush by IAAF President Lamine Diack Dear President, On behalf of the International Association of International Athletics Federations - which has 210 members in every corner of the world - I would like to send our most sincere condolences at the shocking and evil attacks on US soil yesterday. Our sport of track and field athletics is based on the principle of friendly and peaceful competition and tolerates no discrimination based on sex, or race or religion. Cold hearted, brutal terrorism is an affront to all civilised behaviour and cannot be tolerated. Our prayers are with the victims and their loved ones and we hope that your great nation will find the strength, and faith, to recover from this blow. Yours sincerely, Lamine Diack President of the International Association of Athletics Federations ENDS
