The people in charge of the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City have 10 years to figure out how to assure thousands of athletes and millions of sports fans that the competition will be clean.
They’re not off to a very good start.
After 20 years of planning, organizing and fundraising, the Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee came to the July 24 International Olympic Committee meeting as the only candidate on the ballot for the 2034 Winter Games. It was in the bag.
But then the time came for the Salt Lake committee to use its powerful bargaining position, to stand up for an Olympics that everyone could trust, or to capitulate to a system that has brought great shame upon the whole Olympic movement. Our folks, under considerable duress, made the wrong choice.
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