Spielberg's move 'won't hurt' Games

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has shrugged off the controversy that Steven Spielberg created by withdrawing as the Beijing Games' artistic advisor, and said the IOC is "a sporting, not a political, association".

Rogge told broadcaster France 24 in Paris on Friday that the IOC was not made out to play a political role and that he did not fear a boycott of the Olympics.

"I do not fear a boycott because most statesmen know well that boycotts only punish those boycotting" an event, he said.