Reply #7: IOC Corruption is Pandemic

[KurtNYC]

IOC Official is Going to Jail
SEOUL - South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a two-year jail term and a heavy fine Friday for disgraced IOC vice president Kim Un-Yong, convicted of massive corruption.
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Previously Kim was given a severe warning when the IOC investigated the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics scandal. Implicated in corruption allegations, 10 IOC members were either expelled or forced to resign in connection with the Games.
http://www.businessday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1789438-6078-0,00.html

About Salt Lake:

It's a scandal of Olympic proportions. The International Olympic Committee is reeling under allegations that some members accepted bribes of cash, gifts, even the service of prostitutes to give Salt Lake City the 2002 Winter Games. The IOC is investigating, some members are tendering their resignations, and corporate sponsors are getting skittish. Meanwhile, as we see in this clip, Canadians are watching closely. Calgary wants to pick up the pieces. Quebec City wants a refund.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-1373-8390/sports/olympic_bids/clip9

And Sydney:

Attempts by international and Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) officials to maintain a "squeaky-clean" image for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games collapsed dramatically last week when AOC president John Coates released documents revealing that he, and other officials, had been involved in extensive votebuying in 1993 to secure Sydney's Games' bid.
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Shane Maloney from the Melbourne Committee that bid for the 1996 Games revealed on January 21 that his organisation, on IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch's request, donated an expensive Aboriginal painting to the Olympic Museum in Switzerland. They also arranged for the daughter of a South Korean delegate to play with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Six African IOC delegates are reported to have requested new Holden cars and the services of local prostitutes from Melbourne officials.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/olym-j30.shtml

And Athens:
Athens scandal witness stabbed
A top Greek sports journalist and key witness into scandals involving the Athens Olympics was beaten and stabbed in an attack his newspaper labelled an assassination attempt on Tuesday.

Police said Filippos Sirigos, sports editor at major daily newspaper Eleftherotypia, was stabbed multiple times and beaten with crowbars in central Athens on Monday afternoon by at least two assailants as he left a weekly radio show he hosts.
http://www.eurosport.com/home/pages/v4/l0/s82/e3012/sport_lng0_spo82_evt3012_sto649307.shtml

Yep, doping scandals, bid rigging, bribes, prostitutes, and attempted murder. Let the Games begin?