11.   IOC rules allowed one trip for two people to a candidate city.

12.   More than likely, members say, it will ban individual members from visiting candidate cities.

13.   Only two rounds of voting were necessary for Beijing to prevail with a majority of ballots over four other candidate cities.

14.   The IOC regularly debriefs candidate cities after votes in an attempt to monitor the selection process.

15.   Washington-Baltimore is competing against Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Tampa to be the U.S. candidate city.

16.   A candidate city wants to be friends with the members.

17.   An organization like ours relies on candidate cities and IOC members to comply with those rules.

18.   An International Olympic Committee report released Tuesday ranked Beijing among the top three candidate cities.

19.   As expected, Salt Lake City was one of the four finalists selected Tuesday as the International Olympic Committee pared down the field of nine candidate host cities.

20.   Candidate cities are expected to undergo a rigorous review to make sure they meet minimum requirements.