31.   Manchester officials complained about visiting IOC members trying to collect twice or three times for expenses for a single visit to the candidate city in England.

32.   Members have also been banned from visiting candidate cities.

33.   Members were barred from visiting candidate cities or having anything beyond the barest contact with their representatives.

34.   New rules imposed after the Salt Lake City bid scandal strictly limit contact between candidate cities and the members.

35.   Other candidate cities, including Rome, rely more on a team approach to push their bids.

36.   Proposals include banning visits of IOC members to candidate cities and leaving the selection to a small group rather than the full IOC assembly.

37.   Rome is one of five candidate cities.

38.   Samaranch has already said he plans to stop IOC members from visiting candidate cities in a bid to limit the chances for corruption.

39.   Takac said the company produces promotional material, posters, pins, graphic designs and other services for Olympic candidate cities.

40.   The bids were personally delivered by representatives of the candidate cities at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.