Evaluation team give little away as Livingstone spat spices up tale of five cities Alan Hubbard
20 February 2005 It wasn't quite like being up before Judge John Deed, but sitting in front of the IOC Evaluation Commission can be an intimidating experience, as I discovered yesterday morning. At the invitation of the London 2012 bid leader Lord Sebastian Coe I sat on a panel giving evidence to, and being grilled by, the visiting Olympic jury in their penultimate session before their departure to New York this afternoon for the next leg of their trial of five cities. The only newspaperman present at any of the 17 sessions conducted by the commission in the conference room of their five-star in London's Docklands, I am not allowed, under the Olympic version of Chatham House Rules, to disclose details of what transpired. But I can report that the questions, notably those addressed to the BBC's Head of Sport Peter Salmon, indicated that the 10 members present - three others had gone off on another mission - had done their homework thoroughly. http://sport.independent.co.uk/olympics/story.jsp?story=612893
