ZAGREB/WENGEN, Jan 17 (Hina) - About 100 reporters gathered in Wengen Friday afternoon for a news conference called by the world's best slalom skier, Croatia's Ivica Kostelic.
ZAGREB/WENGEN, Jan 17 (Hina) - About 100 reporters gathered in
Wengen Friday afternoon for a news conference called by the world's
best slalom skier, Croatia's Ivica Kostelic. #L#
Kostelic read his statement to reporters, which he yesterday
forwarded to the Croatian and foreign public. In the statement, he
dismissed "malevolent fabrications" ran in Croatia's Nacional
weekly, which accused him of being a "sympathiser of Nazi
ideology".
He stressed in his statement that he and his family despised Nazism
and considered it one of the world's worst evils.
Before the start of the news conference, reporters were told
Kostelic would only read his statement, so reporters did not ask
questions.
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