• Games have ‘huge safeguards in place,’ says spokesman
• Fears remain Russia could target event for cyber-attack

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said its IT systems are robust after going into meltdown on Friday as a result of the CrowdStrike outage and despite fears of a Russian cyber-attack at the Paris 2024 Games.

According to sources, the IOC’s chief technical officer was woken up at 2am Paris time after the botched CrowdStrike update, that affected 8.5m Windows devices. The IOC was able to secure a priority fix with the American company, which meant its systems were back online on Friday. Before then, security checks at the Games’ press centre were done manually using lists of names and the accreditation desk was closed.