Colorado Springs-based USOC considering relocating

Posted: October 08, 2007

The U.S. Olympic Committee, a fixture in Colorado Springs, Colo., for nearly three decades, is considering various proposals to relocate because of its aging, cramped facilities.

USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said that the committee's needs include training space for athletes, news headquarters and administrative space for the various sports' national governing bodies.

"We're looking at options. No decisions have been made," Seibel said. "We have not established a specific time line."

Seibel and city officials confirmed that one of the proposals for upgrading the training center came from Colorado Springs. Seibel declined to discuss any other proposals.

City officials said that they have talked to the USOC for the past several months about helping it find new space are prepared to make a commitment.

The USOC moved to Colorado Springs from New York City in 1978.

Tennis

* David Ferrer overpowered Richard Gasquet, 6-1, 6-2, to win the Japan Open in Tokyo for his third title of the year. On Saturday, Venus Williams was upset by Virginie Razzano, 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4.

* Pauline Parmentier won her first career WTA Tour final, upsetting top-seeded Victoria Azarenka, 7-5, 6-2, in the final of the Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Open.

Sport Stops

* Former soccer star Diego Maradona was stopped by airport police in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after arriving on a flight from Italy, taken before a judge and told he faced a civil case involving injuries in a transit accident, local reports said. Airport police said they stopped Maradona and that he was taken by police car to a court and advised of a pending civil case involving a Feb. 10, 2006, accident, according to the official government news agency Telam. The report said Maradona was sought after failing to heed earlier court summons.

* Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari won the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix and Lewis Hamilton of McLaren missed his chance to clinch the drivers' title by spinning out entering the pits.

* Football is returning at Mansfield University, which dropped its Division II program nearly a year ago because of budget constraints. Mansfield will join the non-scholarship Collegiate Sprint Football League, which limits players from weighing more than 172 pounds. Navy, Army, Cornell, Penn and Princeton also have teams in the league. *

|
|
|
|
|