Labels:text | screenshot | fruit | letter OCR: SPORTS rights abuses outlined in a State ceedings at Monte Carlo. Department report. Just days before the voting, Olympics chief In a similar move, 60 US sena- Samaranch criticised American politi- tors sent a letter of protest to all cians for opposing Beijing's bid. "We members of the IOC. The letter find it difficult to understand why a contended that if the IOC chose country that has given China Most Beijing as the venue for the Games, Favoured Nation status to develop its it would signal the international com- trade with it, asks us today not to give it munity's approval of China's practic- the Games," he said. es, would allow Beijing to turn its vic- Whatever the reasons for the failure of Beijing to tory into a propaganda asset and would mean a clinch the Games, one thing is clear-Sydney has setback for pro-democracy activists. seven years to prepare itself for the 2000 Summer Speaking in Sydney only weeks before Monte Olympics. Carlo, Douglas Hurd, Britain's foreign secretary, Ironically, state treasury documents, released said that Manchester was the "obvious" choice, but shortly after Sydney's successful bid for the Olym- that if it failed, the Games should go to Sydney. pics, showed that the state government was ad- However, certain mem- bers of the IOC did not take kindly to the efforts of WHIST DOIT various politicians and po- litical powers to influence the outcome of the pro- Artist's im pression of Sydney's Olympic stadium
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