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"As with all other Olympic Games, sessions and<br />

congresses the Paris meeting will be sponsored by commerce.<br />

Any company thinking of funding Samaranch's attempts to<br />

maintain his hegemony should be told bluntly that their<br />

products are as unsavoury as the IOC itself." (P. 348).<br />

and finally in a passage which practically serves as a<br />

conclusion to the book, the authors write:<br />

"It was not a pretty sight to watch the Olympians in<br />

Birmingham with their snouts in the overflowing trough. Much<br />

of what we saw was offensive. If we want to reclaim our sport<br />

from them, if we want to bring morality back into sport, then<br />

we need to recall our IOC members and ask them to explain<br />

what, if anything, they do for our sport." (P. 347).<br />

This vulgar comparison leaves the reader with the final<br />

image of IOC members compared to pigs, chiefly preoccupied in<br />

feeding themselves.<br />

6<br />

(ii) Towards Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch<br />

Messrs Simson and Jennings, in repeating misleading<br />

statements, strive to depict Mr Samaranch as a man who.<br />

through astute lobbying, has perverted the IOC so as to

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