Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was in charge of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, said Friday that he would be comfortable bringing his family to the Sochi Winter games, despite recent security threats. “I believe the Games will be safe,” Romney said on NBC's "Today" show. “That doesn’t mean there’s a 100 percent guarantee anywhere in the world today. But this is, after all, a dangerous corner of the world.” He said “hard sites” where athletes will compete and spectators will watch will be undoubtedly secure. “It’s the soft places that you can’t be 100 percent certain will be entirely safe, but my guess is that Russians have done everything humanly possible to protect the Games,” he said. Romney oversaw the 2002 Winter Games just months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. He said granting Russia the Olympics was the right choice, despite some of the nation's controversial political decisions.
