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Salt Lake City Ethics Case Study

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The Salt Lake City bid scandal in late 1998 and early 1999 is one of the largest corruption and bribery scandal that has hit the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The city had tried three previous times to win the bid to host a winter Olympics, but had failed to secure the bid all three times. They decided that they would not a fail a fourth time and decided to do as much as possible to ensure that they won the bid, spending upwards of $1 million in gifts and cash to wine-and-dine members of the IOC into voting for them. When this came to light, the IOC was embroiled in an ethical dilemma that resulted in members being expelled or censured and created an Ethics Commission to oversee all ethical matters that concern the IOC. The Salt …show more content…

In the wake of those expulsions, the IOC voted to create an Ethics Commission. The commission would consist of 9 members, with most of its members not a member of the IOC (Wenn, Barney, & Martyn, 2011). The Ethics Commission drafted the Code of Ethics in 1999 to protect the ethical principles of the Olympics (Hamilton, 2010). Article 11 of the Rules Governing the Candidature Process states that “no gifts, of whatever value, may be given to or accepted/received by IOC Members… These restrictions shall be respected by the IOC Members, the cities and their NOCs and by all those acting on behalf of or supporting the city” (IOC Ethics Commission, …show more content…

The winning bid for the summer Olympics to be held in Rio in 2016 is currently under investigation amid concerns that the chief of the Rio committee participated in corruption and vote buying (Hyde, 2017). Even the bid for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 has come under scrutiny. The sport world in general has also had major sports corruption cases, including FIFA and, more recently, the NCAA corruption in Men’s Division 1 Basketball. These corruption cases continue to pop up, despite rules and regulations aimed to stop them from occurring. Humans are flawed and sometimes people can be swayed by money and power, despite the ethical issues that can arise with those. The only way to stop future corruption is to be even harsher in punishments, have stricter regulations, and fundamentally change human

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