Comments by leading IOC official made in 2008 interview about payments were permitted under Olympic rules at the time
John 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 summerIn extracts from a recently discovered hour-long interview in 2008Coates 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.
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