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Last year's allegations of bribery among members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) marred the image of a competition that should be about youthful idealism, heroic achievements and national pride. While one has become accustomed to hearing about unethical actions in professional sports, it was a shock that the directors of the world's most prominent amateur sporting competition had succumbed to the temptations of gifts from cities seeking to host the games...
While it is certainly unfortunate that John Hancock felt the need to include such a clause in the contract, its actions are entirely understandable and appropriate. Clauses such as this are common in other contracts, and this will be an additional incentive for the IOC to conduct itself in a manner that reflects the honor and integrity of the games...
Operating under the theory that your palms can't be greased if you don't hang out with the greasers, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch on Sunday easily pushed through the hardest part of his recent batch of reform proposals: keeping IOC members from making financially tempting visits to cities looking to host the games. Many reluctant members grumbled that such a ban implied they couldn't be trusted, although one might think that the haul that several of their former colleagues extorted out of the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee - which included silver, scholarships for their kids...
...Will this, as well as other measures, such as lowering the maximum age for delegates and limiting the time a president can serve, be enough to restore the IOC's reputation? Maybe. The pressure to reform is considerable: Major corporations, such as Coke and IBM, which send the IOC $50 million checks so that they can use the Olympic rings in their ads, are not amused with the committee's image as a bunch of shameless shakedown artists. But Samaranch doesn't inspire much confidence when he still largely blames the mess on the competing cities for putting...
...higher. Members of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee expect 10 percent of the first tickets made public to be auctioned off online. And who is looking out for the downtrodden members of the International Olympic Committee? Organizers are quick to assure the press that members of the IOC will be asked to pay for their own tickets. ?They?ll probably say no,? SLOC president Mitt Romney said at a press conference Thursday. ?But there?s no harm in asking.? Romney shouldn?t feel shy about billing IOC members; they're rumored to have some cash lying around...