Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal

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Tarnished Rings Sports and Entertainment Steven A. Riess, Series Editor Other titles in Sports and Entertainment Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track & Field and the Melting Pot Alan S. Katchen Anything for a T-Shirt: Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World’s Greatest Footrace Ron Rubin Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, Two Volumes Sundiata Djata Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910–1932 Neil Lanctot Great Women in the Sport of Kings: America’s Top Women Jockeys Tell Their Stories Scooter Toby Davidson and Valerie Anthony, eds. Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American Boarding Schools Axel Bundgaard My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White Andrew Furman The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction Robert C. Trumpbour Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919–1930 Raymond Schmidt The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865–1913 Steven A. Riess Tarnished Rings The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal Stephen Wenn Robert Barney Scott Martyn Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2011 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2011 11 12 13 14 15 16 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3290-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wenn, Stephen R., 1964– Tarnished rings : the International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City bid scandal / Stephen Wenn, Robert Barney, Scott Martyn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3290-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Olympics—Corrupt practices. 2. International Olympic Committee. 3. Salt Lake City Bid Committee for the Olympic Winter Games, 2002. I. Barney, Robert Knight, 1932– II. Martyn, Scott G., 1966– III. Title. GV721.6.W46 2011 796.4809792'258—dc23 2011042264 Manufactured in the United States of America To Blanche Geraldine Thompson Barney (1907–2011) Mother of Robert, David, and Peter A lady who lived on amongst us until late August 2011, a lady whose lifetime (well into her one hundredth and fourth year) encompassed forty-four modern Olympic festivals (missing only Athens—1896, Paris—1900, and St. Louis—1904), and a lady who, like many Olympic athletes, exuded a presence that inspired those she touched. Honor to her name. Stephen Wenn is Professor and Former Chair of Kinesiology and Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He, along with lead author Robert Barney, and Scott Martyn, published an award-winning analysis of the transformation of the International Olympic Committee into a revenue-generating juggernaut in the latter half of the twentieth century, titled Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism in 2002 (rev. ed., 2004). He is also coeditor with Gerald Schaus of Onward to the Olympics : Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games (2007) and has served as President of the North American Society for Sport History (2007–9). He and his wife, Martha, and their children, Tim and Lily, live in Baden, Ontario. Robert Barney, a native New Englander, is Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology and the Founding Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He recently published an anthology of articles that first appeared in Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies titled Rethinking the Olympics: Cultural Histories of the Modern Games (2010). He has devoted a good measure of his professional life to exploring and encouraging historical research of the modern Olympic Games and received the Olympic Order in 1997. Robert, known to his peers simply as Bob or B2 , and his wife, Ashleigh, live in London, Ontario. Scott Martyn is Associate Professor of Human Kinetics at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His PhD dissertation, titled “The Struggle for Financial Autonomy: The IOC and the Historical Emergence of Corporate Sponsorship , 1896–2000,” shed much light on the...