The IOC was, is and probably will always be a mess. Their credibility has been absent for years and whether it was their decision to choose Beijing, patting themselves on their own back for the "success" of Beijing despite violent responses to protests or the decision to choose one of the most dangerous cities in the world for the 2016 games, they don't get it. And, they don't care that they don't get it.
Chinese sports officials struck a deal to bring the Olympics to Beijing, promising to support Jacques Rogge's bid to head the International Olympic Committee in return for European backing for Beijing's bid, according to a recently released memoir.
Retired sports minister and president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, Yuan Weimin, describes in his book the alleged arrangements surrounding Beijing's Olympic bid in 2001: European members of the IOC verbally agreed to support Beijing for the 2008 Games in exchange for Chinese support for Rogge.
The IOC denied the accusation made in the book "Yuan Weimin and the Sports World."
