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...imposing a limit on gifts and even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was?gasp!?in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...
...votes in a surprising upset, and Beijingers think it's payback time. It may also be Asia's turn for the Games. Atlanta had them in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and they will be in Athens in 2004. China's case has support from influential I.O.C. members, including Samaranch, who believe that bringing the Games to China will foster the Olympic ideals of sportsmanship and fair play in the most populous country. "If the eyes of the world are focused on China because of the Olympics," asks Gunilla Lindberg, an I.O.C. member from Sweden, "don't you think it will...
...Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...
...gold medal. I would have been tickled pink to win the silver." With five seconds left in overtime, an exhausted Karelin, who was wrestling his third match of the day to Gardner's second, shocked the crowd, which included I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, by dropping his hands, surrendering and stepping away...