O.C. each country that wants to participate in the Olympic games must have a National Olympic Committee. The reason of their existence is to enhance the Olympic spirit and the non-professional sports. It is their responsibility to organise their teams as far as the equipment, the housing and transportation is concerned. (Organization of the modern Olympics 1,2) .
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. .
Salt Lake, Utah, is a city, which has repeatedly tried to become an Olympic hostess for 30 years, but always failed. The two opponent cities for the 1998 winter Olympics were Nagano and Salt Lake. The 94, then, I.O.C. members where surrounded by last minute gifts, computers, luggage, hats. But Nagano had in addition employed Takacs's son, by giving him $363,000 and of course a bonus if they finally won the Olympics. As it was expected, Nagano won by only four votes against Salt Lake. S.L.O.C. then knew what they had to do. Four years later, Tom Welch was heading the committee. He tried to secure the Olympics for Salt Lake, by giving $400,000 in gifts at 14 members of the I.O.C. All these money were translated into scholarships, jobs, free housing, and cash. Most of the money went to scholarships for family members. And the figure kept rising. After a few weeks it was $800,000, mostly in cash and after a month it has already risen into $1,3 million. By that time, they have bribed 24 members. A quite large number, if we consider the fact that it was the 1/5 of the committee.
