Sydney Olympics were bought ‘to a large extent’, said Australian official John Coates
about 2 years in The guardian
Comments by leading IOC official made in 2008 interviewPayments were permitted under Olympic rules at the timeJohn Coates, the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and outgoing president of the Australian National Olympic Committee, said “to a large extent” that Sydney was awarded the summer Olympic Games in 2000 because it “bought the Games”.In extracts from a recently discovered hour-long interview in 2008, Coates revealed that he offered payments to two African National Olympic Committees who were represented on the IOC panel in exchange for their votes in 1993. Continue reading...
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