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manipulated by the power of money where everything is only a
matter of cheating or pulling strings.
8. The portrait depicted of the IOC by the book's authors is
of an organisation which is mainly centered on money and
whose aim is to finance, in priority, the sumptuous stays of its
93 members; the authors "forget" to specify that the members
of the IOC, who are often strongly pressed to contribute either
to the special commissions to which they belong or to the
general meetings, carry on their activity free of charge and for
the most active members, this activity draws considerable
personal sacrifices in time and money.
9. While reading the book, one immediately feels that the
members of the IOC are mainly preoccupied by their own
personal interests rather than by the interests of the Olympic
Movement.
The authors described them as:
"greedy and over indulged" (p. 312).
They class them as
"gift grabbing" (p. 345).
and even go as far as to accuse Mr Kim, member of the
Executive Board of the IOC, of being a