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...retrospect, you had to see it coming. The Australians had boasted for years that the 2000 Olympics would be "the cleanest Games ever" and that they were going to test athletes on an even more stringent standard than the ones the IOC usually uses...
Even though the Aussies' hearts are in the right place, the idea of having "clean Games" is laughable. The IOC almost makes sure...
Since 1998, when the first stories broke about the scandals involved in picking Olympic cities, the IOC has been desperately looking to clean up its image. It instituted some internal reforms and put a lot of money into the 2000 Sydney Games...
...success of the Games, the IOC knows, largely depends on stories of success and achievement, of overcoming obstacles and setting records. It helps when those athletes are from the home country--like Australian super-swimmer Ian "Thorpedo" Thorpe--or America, where the big bucks come from. So far this Olympics has not disappointed, with swimming records galore and exciting new teams like the U.S. men's soccer squad...
...country riven by civil war since 1991, lacking a government until elections were held two weeks ago, the Somali Olympic Committee has struggled to get even those two athletes to the Games. "We are a poor country," says SOC president Farah Addo, with great understatement. The IOC, which routinely offers assistance to smaller countries, granted the team $22,000. That covered the cost of travel, insurance and equipment. "But what about the three years preparing them, buying all the equipment, feeding them, keeping them in training?" Addo says. None of the major sporting goods companies has offered any assistance...