Intro:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the Italian gay rights activist who was removed from Olympic Park was "escorted from there peacefully" and not detained, as the IOC held their daily briefing in Sochi, Russia on Tuesday.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Adams, IOC Director of Communications:
"The Olympic Park and the Olympic venues are not for us the place for demonstrations, whether we are sympathetic or not, and this one does split opinions around the world, so we would ask anyone to make their case somewhere else and not in the Olympic Park and Olympic venues."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Adams, IOC Director of Communications:
"But I think that the most important thing to remember is that for the IOC, for the Olympic movement discrimination on any grounds of sexual orientation is absolutely against the law for us."