Oly: Gosper right to refer trip to IOC ethics commission Knight

AAP Sports News (Australia), January, 2000

AAP Sports News (Australia) 01-31-2000 Oly: Gosper right to refer trip to IOC ethics commission Knight SYDNEY, Jan 31 AAP - Australian Olympic official Kevan Gosper did the right thing by referring questions about a family trip to Salt Lake City to an independent ethics commission, according to Olympics Minister Michael Knight. "In effect he's been his own whistleblower," a spokesman for Knight said today. Gosper said he had referred questions about the December 1993 trip by his wife Judy and their two children to the host city for the 2002 Winter Games to the International Olympic Committee's ethics commission. Although the IOC vice president said the trip was paid for by his wife, it is at the centre of an $US11,000 ($A17,000) expenses claim by the...

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