“Let us export our oarsmen, our runners, our fencers into other lands. That is the true Free Trade of the future; and the day it is introduced into Europe the cause of peace will have received a new and strong ally. It inspires me to touch upon another step I now propose and in it I shall ask that the help you have given me hitherto you will extent again, so that together we may attempt to realise, upon a basis suitable to the conditions of our modern life, the splendid and beneficent task of reviving the Olympic games “. (Revival of the Olympics 1)

When Baron Pierre de Coubertin stated his will, had never thought that this perennial institution could ever be as much corrupted as it is today. The bribery scandals with the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) and the bid cities, and the drugs many athletes use, are two exam

Another very important event that has also augmented the corruption of the Olympic system is the use of drugs from many athletes who take part in the Olympic games.

New evidence support that I.O.C. and other organisations are rather soft on the matter of drugs. Many believe that also I.O.C. has covered up results that were positive, because they did not want to stain the games. Unfortunately they still use tests, which do not give correct results. Doping has been forbidden since 1967. From 1968 the I.O.C. has been making tests and the athletes who are caught under the influence of drugs are expelled and may lose all their medals. (The real scandal 1)

As it is stated at Hosenball Mark’s article in Newsweek “A new Olympic Mess” the I.O.C. members could officially receive gifts from bid cities, if they do not exceed $200, and the free trip for them can last for no more than 5 days. Obviously the rules are mostly trampled. (A New Olympic Mess1)

Sports illustrated published an article ‘Breaking Point. Years of greed and corruption have cot up at Last with the I.O.C” from which we learn about the most recent scandal concerning pays and briberies which occupied the mass media the last years is the one of Salt Lake city and how they finally managed to host the winter Olympic games of 2002. Even if Salt Lake Organising Committee (S.L.C.O.) members do not accept the accusations and support that they knew nothing about briberies, many evidence started to come in the daylight.

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