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Article: Salt Lake City's Virtuous Image Tarnished by Simmering Scandal
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- The Washington Post
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- January 19, 1999
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Fifteen months ago, in a statewide radio broadcast, Gov. Mike
Leavitt (R) predicted that after the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
conclude "the world will never see Utah the same."
Three years before the opening ceremony, Leavitt's prediction has
come true, but certainly not in the way he envisioned.
Reeling from a still-unfolding scandal involving charges that Utah
won the right to host the Games by showering cash, gifts and other
financial favors on International Olympic Committee (IOC) members and
their families, this prosperous and booming city nestled against the
Wasatch Mountains is undergoing a kind of civic and psychic crisis.
"Utahans are very ashamed of what they are seeing," said Ted