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In December, a member of the IOC board, Mark Hodler, spoke publicly of "massive corruption", echoing investigative journalists who have long said the 105-year-old institution was infested with dishonesty.
At the emergency meeting of the IOC board soon afterwards, WADA was born, with a philosophy of banning that was a long way from Mr Samaranch's.To be banned by WADA, a drug has to meet at least two of three criteria: it must enhance performance, be harmful to health and (a very Victorian touch) be against the spirit of sport.
But IOC board member Sir Craig Reedie said cycling's place in the Olympics is "not currently on the agenda".
He doesn't fully understand who was involved in the deal but it must have been, he says, people on the senior executive of the IOC board.
Each of the 14 members of the IOC board, also technically "unpaid," will be allotted upwards of $20,000 for their contributions for three weeks over the games, in addition to the free lodging, food and prime seats at events the board members already have access to. .
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The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Executive Board also announced at a packed press conference in Lausanne that six IOC members should be expelled, while investigations will continue into three others for their part in taking bribes, gifts and scholarships worth an estimated $600,000£400,000000) from the organisers of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
On 13 August 2009 it was announced that the IOC executive board was recommending rugby sevens for inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games and on 9 October 2009 the full IOC, at its 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, voted to include Rugby Sevens in the 2016 games.
IOC executive board member Gerhard Heiberg offered another perspective.
Pat Hickey, the Irish IOC executive board member who is head of the European Olympic Committee, has been a vocal supporter of Russia throughout its travails and is hopeful it will step up to host his pet European Games, last staged in Baku, in 2019.
In July the World Anti-Doping Agency released an Independent Report, adopted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board that found that Russia had engaged in state-sponsored action to assist doping athletes from being detected.
Wrestling was dropped from the programme by the IOC's executive board in February and immediately embarked on a major reform programme.
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