1.   Also, about three dozen new members have joined the IOC since the bribery scandal, including athletes and heads of international sporting federations.

2.   Diack said impoverished African governments and their national sporting federations had little leverage over their stars to make them attend African events.

3.   Earlier, Diack said impoverished African governments and their national sporting federations had little leverage to make their stars attend African events.

4.   EU member states and national sporting federation within the EU could keep the Yugoslav teams out, whatever the international federations say.

5.   For FINA, the major flaw of the proposal remained legal, forcing the burden of proof on the sporting federations instead of the athletes.

6.   Much to the dislike of sporting federations and commercial television stations who view the television rights traded on the free market as a major source of potential income.

7.   Rare have been the cases so far when civil courts have backed the IOC or sporting federations in cases against banned athletes.

8.   The Association of Commercial Television in Europe said the sale and use of television rights should be left to sporting federations and broadcasters without any outside interference from governments.

9.   The IOC, sporting federations and government officials from dozens of countries hope to center on the drug issue alone.

10.   Today, sporting federations, clubs and training facilities in Haiti are deficient or non-existent.