IOC members, "already alarmed by the 'geld document,'"
a file featuring the SLOC's details about IOC execs, "must
be petrified now," as SLOC President Mitt Romney has
"forewarn[ed] that an estimated 400 boxes of documents
collected by" the U.S. Justice Department in its
investigation into the Olympic bribery scandal will be made
public, according to Mike Gorrell of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE.
Romney told IOC members yesterday: "The geld document is
only one of thousands of pages of heaven knows what. I
can't imagine what was written by senior officials, lower
officials in e-mail and scraps of paper." IOC President
Juan Antonio Samaranch: "You have to understand, members of
the IOC cannot be happy to read in the press documents and
papers that are not true. I am very much worried that this
problem can go on and on and on and will not be finished in
time for the Games in Salt Lake City" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE,
9/13). Samaranch added the possible release of the documents
means that the "problem will not be finished" before the
2002 Games. Samaranch: "I am very much worried that this
problem can go on and on" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/13).
I'VE STAYED IN EVERY BLUE LIGHT CHEAP HOTEL: In UT,
Lisa Riley Roche reported that the IOC has put Romney in the
same hotel as the media in Sydney, while the IOC's full
membership "is actually meeting several blocks away in a
much more luxurious hotel, enjoying much more limited
contact" with the press corps. Roche adds that "even" SLOC
Chair Bob Garff "received the cold shoulder" from IOC
members during Sunday's gala at the Sydney Opera House
marking the week's opening IOC session (DESERET NEWS, 9/12).
