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...Salt Lake City, at the base of the splendid and snowy Wasatch mountains, placed a close second to Nagano, Japan, in the race to host the 1998 Winter Olympics. So the pious and dogged capital of Utah went back to work on its fifth bid in three decades...
After a leak to a Salt Lake City TV station by a disgruntled employee of the local organizing committee and provocative questions raised by a member of the I.O.C., the Salt Lake Olympic bidders stand suspected of bribing the I.O.C. members who decide where the next Olympics will take place. So far, four groups--the I.O.C., the U.S. Olympic Committee (whose probe is headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell), the Justice Department and a Utah ethics committee--have opened investigations into the mess. The IRS may be next...
...sweet deal. Its 115 members don't get paid and now must refuse gifts valued in excess of $150. But they are among the most courted humans on the planet, allowed to accept first-class plane tickets, accommodations in five-star hotels and lavish dinners from bidding cities. Salt Lake City may have taken things a step further...
Between 1992 and 1998, the Salt Lake committee parceled out nearly $400,000 in scholarship money and other financial aid to 13 students. Conveniently, six of the recipients were related to I.O.C. members. Salt Lake committee tax reports, however, made no mention of the scholarships. A Utah health-care group donated $28,000 in services, including cosmetic eye surgery, to the I.O.C. cause. And the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the bid panel spent some $20,000 on guns and skis that presumably went to individuals associated with the I.O.C...
...donning sackcloth and ashes. "Obviously, we did break the rules," says Ken Bullock, an abashed organizer. "The Games are an aphrodisiac. If you want something bad enough, you stretch the boundaries." He points out, however, that the pressure on a bidding city to be hospitable can be intense, and Salt Lake City was hardly the first to gild its welcome mat. "The I.O.C. allowed this sucking up," says Bullock...