Olympic team's despair at blasts
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Updated: 2005-07-08 09:05

LONDON'S victorious Olympic bid team went from elation to despair overnight as they watched from Singapore television footage of the deadly blasts that ripped through the British capital.

"We are disappointed and distraught," the chief executive of the London 2012 team, Keith Mills, said at the convention centre here where less than 24 hours earlier the British team won the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Mills said the members of the London bid team still in Singapore, which included city mayor Ken Livingstone, bid leader Sebastian Coe and British Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell, were "completely and utterly devastated".

"This is our town, our city, our home, we are praying for the people who have been affected," he said.

Coe released a statement as he and his colleagues left for the airport to return to London tonight saying: "The entire 2012 team are shocked and deeply saddened by today's tragic events in London".

"Our thoughts are with the families of the bereaved and all those who have been injured in this despicable terrorist attack," he said.

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