Klammer Takes Over Salzburg Bid

Austrian ski legend Franz Klammer has been chosen to lead Salzburg's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Klammer takes over from Fedor Radmann, 62, who has stepped down due to illness less than six months before the IOC votes on the host city in on 4 July.

Salzburg is competing against two other candidate cities - South Korea's Pyeongchang and Sochi in Russia.

Klammer won the men's downhill gold at the 1976 Games in Innsbruck, the last time the Olympics were in Austria.

Austria Olympic Committee president Leo Wallner said the Salzburg panel plans to make special use of Klammer in its international presentations.

"He'll be a charming ambassador," Salzburg deputy governor Wilfried Haslauer said.

Radmann is the second bid chairman to resign, after Toni Schutti, quit last March.

An IOC evaluation team is scheduled to visit Salzburg on March 14-17 to review its bid.

In 2003, Pyeongchang came within two votes of upsetting Vancouver, Canada, in the vote for the 2010 Games while Sochi is a first-time bid finalist.

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