To expand on what Lady's Human said about the selection committee..

Each city puts together an organizing committee. Usually it's title goes like this....Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee or SLOOC.

The city then hires people to do a presentation and pick out the venues where the events will take place. A bells and whistles tour of the city usually happens and the selection committee are given a VIP tour of the best that area has to offer. Sometimes the area OC tosses in some money, hookers, tickets and lodging to sweeten the pot. If the city needs to construct any venues that is usually a slide show with some kinds of models that a firm will make for the OC.

I seem to remember that some of the SLC people were caught giving the SC bribes to get the games to Utah.
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Even boycotting the purchase of official Olympic products will help.

Each manufacturer has already paid the licensing fee to the BOOC, but there are roylaties that will be paid for each piece they manufacture-and that will hurt.

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Moosmom.
I got to see the rowing and canoeing at Lake Casitas in 84. IT was neat because an American dude won a bronze medal on the last day of competition, that was the first medal of any kind in a zillion years.


Did you see the Oxford/Cambridge race? That was a blast!