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Oltre all'introduzione, e al commento "incredibile che nessun problema di coscienza questo signore abbia mai causato nei mega sponsor del CIO in più di 20 anni...." vi diamo qualche altro elemento. Scusate se è in inglese.Washington Post
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1999
Samaranch To Testify Before House
By Stephen Wilson
AP Sports Writer
[..] Before going to Capitol Hill, Samaranch has another important
engagement in Washington. On Tuesday, he is to meet with Barry
McCaffrey, the White House drug policy adviser.McCaffrey has been a critic of Samaranch – once calling him a "former
fascist" [...]Lawmakers could ask Samaranch about his political role during the
Franco regime [...] Samaranch will have some important allies with him for the hearing,
including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger [...]
The New York Times
Sunday, February 7, 1999
Juan Antonio Samaranch: in reviving Games,
Olympic Chief set little store in halting abuses
By Roger C. Cohen & Jere Longman1955. [...] At the same time he rose steadily in the ranks of Gen.
Franco's Fascist administration, becoming the rough
equivalent of a junior under-secretary of sport and
gaining the prestige that allowed him to join the
I.O.C. in 1966."I am not ashamed of what I did in Spain," Mr.
Samaranch said. "Franco did good things for my country.
He kept us out of World War II. He created a middle
class. He chose a good successor, the king."
Time
January 25, 1999
(Section: SCANDALS)
How the Olympics Were Bought.
By Sullivan, Robert ; Booth, Cathy ; et al[...] When Samaranch wasn't happy with his own testimony
in the 60 Minutes story on Nagano, particularly the part about
being proud of past associations with Franco's Fascist regime,
he sought, in vain, to have his interview retaped [...].
ECONOMIA A MANI LARGHE
Interessanti questi "rilievi" mossi dal Comitato Olimpico Statunitense nel 1999 nei confronti della corruzione nel CIO, oltre a delle simpatiche storielle su Sammy e i suoi viaggi da decine di migliaia di dollari in Giappone, regali sontuosi...
USOC REPORT
Of The Special Bid Oversight Commission"Despite the fact that everyone recognizes the Olympics to be a huge
commercial enterprise, the IOC and its constituent organizations lack the accountability and openness
...the activity in which the Salt Lake committees engaged was part of a broader culture of
improper gift giving in which candidate cities provided things of value to IOC members in an effort to
buy their votes. This culture was made possible by the closed nature of the IOC and by the absence of
ethical and transparent financial controls in its operations.
The IOC's governing structure fails to provide adequate accountability.
Despite the massive amounts of money flowing to the IOC from the Olympic Games in
recent years, the IOC does not disclose publicly its financial statements or auditor's reports.
Whatever the rationale of such organizational principles may have been a century ago, there is nothing that
justifies them today.
The culture of improper gift giving tolerated by the IOC is potentially illegal and inevitably corruptive".
Washington Post
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1999
Samaranch To Testify Before House
By Stephen Wilson
AP Sports WriterSamaranch, who has been in office since 1980, will become the first IOC
president to testify before Congress. He declined requests earlier this year
to appear at other hearings on the Olympic scandal.
[...] Lawmakers could ask Samaranch about [...] the
$12,000 trip his wife and friend made in 1990 at
the expense of Atlanta's Olympic bid team [...]
The New York Times
Sunday, February 7, 1999
By Roger C. Cohen & Jere LongmanJuan Antonio Samaranch: in reviving Games,
Olympic Chief set little store in halting abuses[...] an examination of Mr. Samaranch's life suggests
that at the least he had no enthusiasm for uncovering
wrongdoing in the Olympic movement [...][...] The Nagano Olympic committee laid on a private
three-car train for him in 1991 with a view to winning
-- as it did -- the 1998 Winter Games. The train, run
by JR East, Japan's largest railroad company, cost
about $7,000 to hire for the trip from a site near
Tokyo to Nagano, a spokesman for JR said.
When in Nagano for the Games, Mr. Samaranch was put up
at the Imperial suite of the Kokusai 21 Hotel from Jan.
28, 1998, to Feb.23, 1998, at a cost of close to $3,000 per night
-- or over $75,0000, a Nagano committee official said. He
also received a Japanese sword and a painting, each
valued at about $16,000 [...]