21.   While the Atlanta bid team may have used its influence with local universities to bypass standard admission procedures, the Salt Lake team actually wrote the checks.

22.   A Greek jeweler has admitted supplying the Athens Olympic bid team with fine jewelry, including a gold necklace owned by the wife of Australian IOC member Phil Coles.

23.   Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who led the winning bid team, also brought back her original staff.

24.   An organizational shake-up led to the appointment of Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who also headed the bid team.

25.   But a Sydney organizing committee spokesman said the committee was not aware of any wrongdoing by its bid team.

26.   But a SOCOG spokesman said later Wednesday that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by the Sydney bid team.

27.   Graham Stringer, a member of parliament and a key member of the Manchester bid team, also suggested the IOC should compensate other losing cities.

28.   In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Evi Tsimbilis said the Athens bid team asked her shop, Michalis, to make them jewelry.

29.   Premier Costas Simitis responded by bringing back the original bid team to save them, with Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki appointed president and Liaskas a chief aide.

30.   Simitis then appointed Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who led the bid team, to restore order to the organization.