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He also resigned his position as one of four Vice Presidents of the IOC in April 2012 following the
timing of the Italian government’s withdrawal of Rome as a candidate city for the 2020 Games the day
before the IOC deadline. The government would not provide the required financial backing. Pescante
said he did not object to the reasoning, but the timing of the decision, which he said was “theatre” and
which he wanted no part of. His appointment to head the 2020 Rome bid was cleared by the IOC Ethics
Committee, which he said found no conflict of interest.
In 2006 before the Turin Winter Olympics, which Pescante also headed, the IOC tried to circumvent an
Italian law that made doping violations criminal. The IOC wanted the Italian government to impose a
moratorium on the antidoping law during the Games so the IOC could penalize anti-doping offenses
according to the WADA code only. Pescante led the moratorium effort on behalf of the IOC, despite the
fact that he knew it had little public support. Several prominent politicians and the new head of Italy's
national Olympic committee, supported the Italian law. “I was very isolated,” he said.
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