While in Florence the IOC President met Paul Beeston, major league baseball's chief operating officer, and Donald Fehr, head of the major league baseball players' union. Also present at the meeting were Jacques Rogge, president of the EOC, IOC member Ottavio Cinquanta and Gilbert Felli, the IOC's sports director. They discussed progress on preparations for the 2004 Games in view of the first meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission, which will take place in Athens on 2nd to 4th September. IOC members Lambis Nikolaou, who is president of the Greek Olympic Committee, and Alex Gilady were also present. T he first World Youth Games in Moscow's Luzhniki stadium were closed last Sunday by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, in the presence of the prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, and the president of the Russian Olympic Committee, Vitaly Smirnov.
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