1.   All future American bidding cities must take an oath not to grease IOC delegates and similarly suspect characters.

2.   Each of the other bidding cities has at least one perceived weakness.

3.   In the wake of the Salt Lake City Olympic bribery scandal, lawmakers raised questions about whether other bidding cities also used improper inducements to secure the Games.

4.   It is possible that even more names will surface when the commission reviews the responses from the former bidding cities.

5.   Representatives of five of the six bidding cities traveled to Lausanne to review the process and discuss the allegations.

6.   The other bidding cities were Klagenfurt of Austria, Zakopane of Poland, Helsinki of Finland and Poprad-Tatry of Slovakia.

7.   Anti-graft rules imposed after scandals over influence-peddling accusations against some IOC members bar current delegates from visiting bidding cities.

8.   Baldwin said she wrote the letter because the bidding cities were upset over the comments Romney made earlier this month.

9.   Coles has already been censured by the IOC for accepting lavish gifts from successful Winter Olympic bidding city Salt Lake City.

10.   FINA president Mustapha Larfaoui announced the decision by the FINA bureau after presentations were concluded by both bidding cities earlier Saturday.