¡¡¡¡BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- International Olympic Committee's communications chief visited Xinhua News Agency on Thursday.

¡¡¡¡Giselle Davies, appointed as IOC's director of communications in May, briefed Xinhua sports reporters on the recently-concluded IOC Session, which decided to postpone a vote on dropping modern pentathlon, baseball and softball from the Olympics.

¡¡¡¡When asked if the postponement was a defeat for IOC president Jacques Rogge, who had commissioned the proposed changes and pushed for a vote, Davies said: "No, of course not."

¡¡¡¡Rogge has pledged to scale down the Olympic Games because he isworried that the Games is getting too big and expensive to host, said Davies.

¡¡¡¡Davies is with the IOC's Coordination Commission which had its first full meeting with 2008 Olympic Games organizers (BOCOG) in Beijing.

¡¡¡¡The commission led by Hein Verbruggen lavished praise on the progress Beijing had made in the first year after the Chinese capital was awarded the 2008 Games.

¡¡¡¡"The IOC's Coordination Commission is very impressed by the work done by BOCOG in the first year," Verbruggen said on Wednesday.

¡¡¡¡"I must say that the people we talked to are knowledgeable and specialize in organization of the Olympic Games," he added. Enditem