Sponsors should worry about bribery scandal, IOC consultant

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 4, 1999 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-1999
Sponsors should worry about bribery scandal, IOC consultant

An Australian consultant to the International Olympics Committee says Sydney Olympic
sponsors should be concerned about the bribery scandal engulfing the committee.

Sydney-based St James Centre executive director SIMON LONGSTAFF, who's been retained by the
IOC to establish an ethics commission, says sponsors will start pulling out if satisfactory
reforms are not made.

DR LONGSTAFF is referring to recent ...

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