Coe Defends BP 2012 Olympic Sponsorship
Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Olympics organising committee, has stated that the high-profile Gulf of Mexico oil spill will not harm BP’s top-tier sponsorship of the 2012 Games.
Coe said the oil giant was a ‘trusted partner’, adding that the spill ‘does not make a difference to us at all’.
He said: ‘They [BP] were with us during the bid and now they are with us as partners doing the delivery phase.
‘They are an example of a world class company who are working with us, sharing our vision and bringing it forward.’
Eleven people died when an explosion destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on 20th April. Owned and operated by Transocean, the rig was being leased by BP.
The latest estimates suggest 35,000-60,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf every day in what many are calling the worst environmental disaster in US history.
