Corruption in the 1960s
Rethinking the Origins of Unethical Olympic Bidding Tactics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12218540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather L Dichter (0000-0002-6538-7109, Western Michigan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 6-7 |
| Pages | 666-682 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2016.1195374 |
| OpenAlex | W2437990372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Most scholarship about improprieties surrounding Olympic host city selections starts with the Salt Lake City scandal, which television reporters broke in 1998, after which more details emerged revealing similar actions by previous Olympic hosts (as well as unsuccessful bid committees). Yet, the actions of these post-Los Angeles bid committees were not new, with local newspapers from the cities bidding for Games in the 1960s regularly reporting on significant amounts of money bid committees spent in the hope of winning the Games. The actions of the candidate cities for the 1968 Olympic Games went to great lengths to secure the Games. IOC efforts to impose regulations in response to these actions failed to yield significant changes on candidate cities. These examples from the 1960s demonstrate that the bribery of Nagano, Sydney, and Salt Lake City did not start from nowhere. Instead, the IOC long had a culture of improprieties when it came to selecting Olympic host cities – albeit on a smaller scale
Advertising · Bidding · Biology · Business · Language change · Newspaper · Political science · Salt lake · Scholarship · Stadium · Yield (engineering · Doping in Sports · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Marketing
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |