
By David Dodge
- Dec 17, 2021
The IOC Ethics Commission - Is It Working?
While the International Olympic movement has a long history of scandals and corruption, a recent case involving an Olympic official who helped steer the 2016 Summer Games to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (“Rio”) remains among the most egregious. Carlos Arthur Nuzman, head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for more than two decades, was sentenced recently to over 30 years in prison for buying votes for Rio to host the 2016 Olympics. Nuzman, 79, who also headed the Rio Organizing Com