WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Olympic Committee spent more than $60,000 on favors for foreign sports officials who, in return, supported Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games, an internal USOC report concludes.

The report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press said the USOC spent the money on training, equipment, travel and "pocket money" for athletes and coaches from Turkey, Mali, Uganda and Sudan. USOC officials believed those four countries' representatives on the International Olympic Committee supported Salt Lake City's successful bid for the 2002 games.The report is the most detailed accounting yet of the USOC's involvement in the biggest scandal to hit Olympic sports. The IOC has purged 10 members implicated in taking some of the $1.2 million the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee spent on scholarships, shopping sprees and other gifts to IOC members.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating. Already, one Utah businessman has pleaded guilty to a corruption-related charge and the son of South Korea's IOC member has been indicted.

On Friday, the USOC gave congressional investigators copies of the February report, which was prepared by the organization's law firm, Hogan and Hartson. The USOC had resisted handing over the report to Congress, saying it contained information protected by confidentiality agreements and lawyer-client privilege.

The report faults the USOC for lax oversight of not only the Utah organizers but also its own employees and volunteers. It said those failings date back at least to 1989, when Utah organizers lavished members of a USOC panel with gifts despite a policy requiring such gifts to be reported and turned over to USOC management.

At the time, Salt Lake City was competing with three other American cities to be the USOC's choice to host the games. Salt Lake City was chosen after organizers gave gifts including a case of beer, bottles of wine, free passes and lodging at Utah ski resorts and helicopter rides to view possible Olympic venues.

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USOC spokesman Mike Moran said the organization had made more than a dozen rule changes as a result of this report and one by a panel headed by former Sen. George Mitchell. Those changes included a ban on paying for athlete training or equipment related to a city's bid to host the Olympics, Moran said.

"Our view of what happened was, it was our own lack of oversight, which we've taken great pains to correct," Moran said.

During the USOC panel's visit, Salt Lake City organizers spent $1,500 on jackets and hats, $338 for seven dozen red roses, nearly $7,600 on the helicopter rides and $250 for massage therapists, the report said.

Baaron Pittenger, the USOC's executive director at the time, told the AP in February that none of the USOC panel members mentioned getting gifts worth more than $25 in 1989.

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