Australian Olympic Committee President and IOC member John Coates was closely involved in the preparation and staging of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In this edition of Around the Rings Radio, he talks to ATR Editor Ed Hula about those Games as well as preparations he is supervising in Tokyo as chair of the IOC Coordination  Commission.

ATRadio with Gunilla Lindberg - ANOC

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For more than 20 years, Ed Hula and his team of correspondents have been on the scene of virtually every important event on the Olympic calendar. From the selection of every host city since 1990 to IOC votes on changing the sport program to multiple visits to assess cities' bids, Around the Rings is there.