OLY: Olympic officials praise Coles =2

AAP Sports News (Australia), March, 1999

> AAP Sports News (Australia) 03-13-1999 OLY: Olympic officials praise Coles =2 Sydney Games Committee director Graham Richardson thought the scandal's outcome would be embarrassing to Coles but hoped sponsors of the 2000 Games would be relieved. "The IOC have shown by the numbers of people they've recommended for expulsion that they're not mucking around, and I think most of the sponsors would say they're doing the right thing," he told Channel Nine. "The only impact it can possibly have (on Sydney) is that the sponsors are relieved." IOC investigators today recommended severe censure for the highest-ranking member implicated in the corruption scandal, South Korea's Kim Un-yong, and for Coles, both of whom narrowly escaped a recommendation that...

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