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...scandal began last month with the discovery that the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) had paid or arranged for $800,000 in cash, gifts and services including medical care and college scholarships to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members who voted in the city's successful bid to host the 2002 Winter Games. In the ensuing weeks, heads rolled at the top of SLOC's leadership, four IOC members resigned and five others were suspended...
...SLOC and the IOC members targeted--many from Africa and South America--are mere scapegoats. In fact, there was nothing particularly extraordinary about the lavish treatment the IOC members received from Salt Lake City. In recent weeks, reports have surfaced detailing hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from other host cities. Sydney officials have acknowledged paying two African members $70,000 the night before the IOC voted to award the 2000 Summer Games to Sydney--a bid it won over Beijing by a mere two votes. (Sydney officials have remained defiantly unapologetic in the wake of the revelations...
...Samaranch was fighting for his future Monday, even after the IOC suspended six members for corruption. "His credibility has been damaged to the extent that it will be questioned whether he can be relied on to reform a body that has malfunctioned so badly on his watch," says Sancton. Allegations of corruption in the decision to award the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City have snowballed into a wide-ranging probe of recent IOC decisions. With billions of dollars at stake in the competition to host the games, the Olympic dictum that participating is more important than winning...
...course, any punishment the Mitchell commission or the IOC hands down would be very small potatoes compared to federal penalties. The Justice Department is now looking into possible extortion and tax and wire fraud by Salt Lake City Olympic Committee officials. Making a federal case out of the scandal will mean showing that organizers broke the law by using tax-exempt money to buy the gifts or to finance scholarships for relatives of IOC members...
Marijuana is not a performance-inducing drug, according to the International Olympic Committee, but they?re going to ban it anyway. Stung by being forced to restore the gold medal to Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati, who had been disqualified at Nagano after testing positive for the substance, the IOC today announced plans to tighten up its testing regulations to include the ?social drug.? Prince Alexandre de Merode of the IOC medical commission said the danger with marijuana was that ?it can give you the impression that you are indestructible.? No word on the IOC?s attitude toward footwear commercials that...