An unnamed member of the International Olympic Committee remains under investigation in connection with irregularities surrounding Atlanta's successful bid for the 1996 Summer Games.
The IOC announced Tuesday that its ethics commission would continue to study the allegations against the member, one of several named in a letter from former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell that detailed gifts and other inducements offered by Atlanta bidders.The allegations against the IOC member were not made public. The letter, written to IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch last year, was first examined by the ethics commission last fall.
Commission members chose not to look at allegations against IOC members who have already been expelled or resigned as a result of their role in the scandal surrounding Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games.
Except for the one case, the allegations in Bell's letter against current members were determined to be "so trivial that they do not warrant that the commission continue its investigation," according to a statement issued by the IOC.
The decision to pursue the case comes after the ethics commission cleared Australian IOC Vice President Kevan Gosper of any wrongdoing over a Deer Valley ski vacation his family took in 1993 that was partially paid for by the Salt Lake bid.