Killanin to step down after the Moscow games
| London
Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee for the past eight years, said Tuesday he will step down from office after the Moscow games to permit a successor to work out the future of the troubled Olympic movement.
Meanwhile, Italy's National Olympic Committee, ignoring government support of the US-led boycott of the Moscow games, voted to send a team; Hong Kong's sports authorities voted not to send a team; and the New Zealand Olympic Committee, which previously voted to send a team, will reconsider its decision May 29. It was also decided this week that Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, and Ireland would send teams.