ROME (AP) " Organizers of Rome's bid for the 2024 Olympics are anxiously awaiting word from the city's new mayor to see if she will move ahead with the candidacy or oppose it as hinted in her electoral campaign. Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago tells reporters, "Ask her what she intends to do." However, Malago acknowledges that without undivided support from the city, the Olympic committee and the government, "we would be too weak." Virginia Raggi of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement won a runoff Sunday to become Rome's first female mayor. Having met with Raggi during the campaign, Malago says, "To us it doesn't seem like there was an outright 'No,' and we don't believe there should be, because it's a procedure that began three years ago."

Source: New Zealand Herald June 21, 2016 11:48 UTC