15.02.1999: Demba: IOC "a club of corrupt old men"
No irregularities revealed on IOC submissions
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Posted: Monday February 15, 1999 07:43 PM
IOC Coordinating Body president Jacques Rogge held a conference call this past weekend with the six-man IOC inquiry commission to review the ethics report. AP
LONDON (AP) -- Several recent bidders for the Olympic Games said they had failed to uncover any irregularities -- or declined to say if they had -- as Monday's deadline passed for submitting reports of alleged misconduct.
In the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, the International Olympic Committee sent letters to all cities that bid for the games from 1996 onwards, asking for any concrete evidence of ethical misconduct by IOC members.
The IOC said Monday it had no word yet on how many cities had replied and would be in a better position to do so Tuesday.
Last week, Japanese Olympic officials said they would tell the IOC that nine IOC members may have broken rules during Nagano's successful bid for the 1992 Winter Games.
There were no such revelations Monday in an AP survey of recent key bidders.
Berlin (2000 games): "It's been investigated and it's all on the table. We didn't see any rules being broken," said Heiner Henze, general secretary of the Germany Olympic committee.
Meanwhile, the opposition party in the Berlin legislature -- the Greens -- said they had sent their own report to IOC detailing what they called "irregularities" by IOC members. Judith Demba, a Greens leader, termed the IOC "a club of corrupt old men."
Manchester (1996 and 2000) and Birmingham (1992), England: Simon Clegg, chief executive of the British Olympic Association, said a report was sent to the IOC but its contents were confidential.
"The findings of the IOC will be announced in due course, until then the BOA will respect the confidentiality contained in the report," he said.
The chairman of Manchester's bid committee had earlier characterized treatment of IOC members as "gross hospitality."
St. Petersburg, Russia (2004): Neither the Russian Olympic committee nor the St. Petersburg bidding committee will submit a report.
"We have sent no letter since there was nothing to report," said Alexander Ratner, Russian Olympic committee spokesman.
Rome (2004): Italian IOC member Mario Pescante said there would be no submission.
"I don't think we have sent a letter, nor are we sending one. We don't have anything to report."
Athens (1996 and 2004): Labis Nikolaou, president of the Greek Olympic committee, said there was no "problem with any member of the IOC for Athens 1996 or 2004. We have no evidence of wrongdoing."
Cape Town, South Africa (2004): "We were not involved in offering any inducement for votes," said Chris Ball, who led Cape Town's bid. He declined to give details of his report to the IOC. "I have to be discreet. It's an IOC matter."
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Posted: Monday February 15, 1999 07:43 PM
IOC Coordinating Body president Jacques Rogge held a conference call this past weekend with the six-man IOC inquiry commission to review the ethics report. AP
LONDON (AP) -- Several recent bidders for the Olympic Games said they had failed to uncover any irregularities -- or declined to say if they had -- as Monday's deadline passed for submitting reports of alleged misconduct.
In the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, the International Olympic Committee sent letters to all cities that bid for the games from 1996 onwards, asking for any concrete evidence of ethical misconduct by IOC members.
The IOC said Monday it had no word yet on how many cities had replied and would be in a better position to do so Tuesday.
Last week, Japanese Olympic officials said they would tell the IOC that nine IOC members may have broken rules during Nagano's successful bid for the 1992 Winter Games.
There were no such revelations Monday in an AP survey of recent key bidders.
Berlin (2000 games): "It's been investigated and it's all on the table. We didn't see any rules being broken," said Heiner Henze, general secretary of the Germany Olympic committee.
Meanwhile, the opposition party in the Berlin legislature -- the Greens -- said they had sent their own report to IOC detailing what they called "irregularities" by IOC members. Judith Demba, a Greens leader, termed the IOC "a club of corrupt old men."
Manchester (1996 and 2000) and Birmingham (1992), England: Simon Clegg, chief executive of the British Olympic Association, said a report was sent to the IOC but its contents were confidential.
"The findings of the IOC will be announced in due course, until then the BOA will respect the confidentiality contained in the report," he said.
The chairman of Manchester's bid committee had earlier characterized treatment of IOC members as "gross hospitality."
St. Petersburg, Russia (2004): Neither the Russian Olympic committee nor the St. Petersburg bidding committee will submit a report.
"We have sent no letter since there was nothing to report," said Alexander Ratner, Russian Olympic committee spokesman.
Rome (2004): Italian IOC member Mario Pescante said there would be no submission.
"I don't think we have sent a letter, nor are we sending one. We don't have anything to report."
Athens (1996 and 2004): Labis Nikolaou, president of the Greek Olympic committee, said there was no "problem with any member of the IOC for Athens 1996 or 2004. We have no evidence of wrongdoing."
Cape Town, South Africa (2004): "We were not involved in offering any inducement for votes," said Chris Ball, who led Cape Town's bid. He declined to give details of his report to the IOC. "I have to be discreet. It's an IOC matter."
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