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Article: Pillars of Salt Lake.(Salt Lake City and the 2002 Winter Olympics)
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- National Review
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- March 8, 1999
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The meaning of the Olympics scandal.
According to Deedee Corradini, Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, people are asking: "How could it happen here, with our high moral standards?" Not really, Deedee: In the wake of the biggest bribery scandal in Olympic history, people are asking if there's a businessman in the whole state of Utah whom you'd trust as far as you could shot-put him.
The 2002 Winter Olympics, awarded to Salt Lake four years ago, are expected to bring the town $2.8 billion in business. This meant big incentives to influence the site-selection process of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)-and Salt Lake's organizing committee (SLOC) ...