GREAT OLYMPIC SWINDLE

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                    [Summary] => International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing director Michael Payne was in town recently to confer with three bidders for the Philippine TV rights to the Athens Olympics.


For the record, Payne is a legitimate IOC bigwig. He was described as a "senior IOC paper-shuffler" and referred to as one of the IOC’s top six officials by Andrew Jennings in his book "The Great Olympic Swindle." Payne intimated that IOC president Dr. Jacques Rogge himself dispatched him to iron out the kinks of the Athens coverage in a seven-nation, five-day trip to Asia.


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                    [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
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Payne’s three rules

By Joaquin M. Henson | March 26, 2004 - 12:00am

International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing director Michael Payne was in town recently to confer with three bidders for the Philippine TV rights to the Athens Olympics. For the record, Payne is a legitimate...

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