An independent IOC Ethics Commission also was established. The reform package also contained a number of provisions regulating the site-selection process and clarifying the obligations of the IOC, the bid cities, and the national Olympic committees.

In December 1999 an IOC commission announced a 50-point reform package covering the selection and conduct of the IOC members, the bid process, the transparency of financial dealings, the size and conduct of the Games, and drug regulation. The IOC responded by expelling six committee members several others resigned. Accusations of impropriety were also alleged in the conduct of several previous bid committees. It was charged that IOC members had accepted bribes-in the form of cash, gifts, entertainment, business favours, travel expenses, medical expenses, and even college tuition for members’ children-from members of the committee that had successfully advanced the bid of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the site for the 2002 Winter Games. In December 1998 the sporting world was shocked by allegations of widespread corruption within the IOC.

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