Security at February's Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was top of the agenda of the first IOC executive meeting under new president Jacques Rogge that opened today in Lausanne, Switzerland.
One week after the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, there are growing fears from some IOC members about how safe the Games will be.
Several have privately called for them to be cancelled, but immediately after the attacks Rogge said the Olympics would go ahead as planned.
"The Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City will take place as scheduled. That's certain," said Rogge. "We have always put security as the number one priority since the Munich Games. Security remains a top priority but what might change is the operation".
He said he had spoken with Mitt Romney, head of the Salt Lake City organising committee, within hours of the attack on the World Trade Center and that the Pentagon and Romney had made it clear the Games should go ahead.
The Games have only ever been cancelled twice - during World War I and World War II.
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes were killed after being taken hostage by Palestinians. The Games were suspended for one day in tribute to the killed athletes but then continued.
AFP