BRIEFLY : GIFTS PART OF '98 BID.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The committee that successfully bid for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics spent nearly $22,000 on each of 62 visiting IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= members. The report by the nationwide Mainichi newspaper is the first that begins to detail long-rumored payments by Japanese officials to land the Games. It comes in the wake of admissions last week by a senior official of the Nagano bid committee that accounting records had been destroyed. Eight officials suspected of involvement with the Salt Lake City bribery scandal were among the dozens of IOC members treated to such freebies as first-class airfare to Japan, all expense paid stays at hot-spring resorts and helicopter tours, the paper reported. Utah's governor and Olympic officials insist they will not yield to community activists who demand resignations of local committee members standing to make money from the 2002 Games. Impact 2002 & Beyond, a coalition representing low-income, disabled and minority groups, wrote again to Gov. Mike Leavitt last week. The coalition wants Earl Holding and Alan Layton, trustees doing business with the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, to quit. Holding owns Snowbasin Ski Area, which will get $13.8 million from SLOC SLOC Source Lines Of Code SLOC Software Lines of Code SLOC Sea Lines of Communication SLOC Salt Lake Olympic Committee SLOC sea line of communications (US DoD) SLOC Skilled Level of Care SLOC Strategic Lanes of Communication as the downhill and super-G venue, and Little America Little America, base for Antarctic exploring expeditions, Antarctica, on the Ross Ice Shelf, S of the Bay of Whales. Richard E. Byrd, a U.S. explorer, established and named Little America in 1929 and built bases on the same site in 1933–35, 1939–41, and Grand, a massive hotel being built downtown. It is expected to be the IOC's base during the Games. Layton's construction company last fall won a $29 million contract to enclose the Olympic speedskating oval. ``There will always be conflicts of interest,'' Leavitt said. ``There just needs to be a way to disclose them and handle them in the appropriate way.'' HORSE RACING horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with : Manistique recovered after a stumbling start and edged Gourmet Girl by a head to win the $150,000 El Encino Stakes The El Encino Stakes is a race for thoroughbred race horses held in the United States. The El Encino Stakes, run at Santa Anita Park each year, is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Only three ran in the 1 1/16-mile race for 4-year-old fillies, so there was no place or show wagering. Ridden by jockey Gary Stevens
Manistique bobbled at the start, but the daughter of Unbridled quickly recovered and Stevens pushed her into the lead going into the first turn. SKIING: Austria's newest golden boy, Benjamin Raich Benjamin Raich (born 28 February 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is an Austrian alpine skier who won gold medals in the giant slalom and slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, Italy. , won a men's slalom in Wengen, Switzerland, for his third triumph of his rookie season on the World Cup circuit. Trine Bakke of Norway earned her first World Cup victory in a women's slalom at St. Anton, Austria. SOCCER: Former German captain Juergen Klinsmann, one of the world's top forwards during the past decade, will not resume his career in the United States and is retiring. ``I toyed with the idea and I collected information about Major League Soccer, but I've decided to retire for good,'' Klinsmann, 34, told the German sports news agency SID. |
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