41.   Another divisive issue, whether to ban member visits from Olympic bid cities, was to be debated later Saturday.

42.   An announcement from the Athens Olympic bid committee, said an envelope containing three separate volumes was handed to IOC official Jacqueline Baret.

43.   Before the Sydney news broke, Samaranch said the IOC was ready to investigate any documented allegations of corruption during other Olympic bid campaigns.

44.   Banners touting the Olympic bid hang from lampposts on major streets and public buildings.

45.   Beijing won the Olympic bid.

46.   Blatter, elected in June to head FIFA, last month announced his resignation from the Olympic bid panel.

47.   But Aksoy said Turkey, making its second consecutive Olympic bid, may turn its back on the games for good if it does not make the cut Friday.

48.   But the IOC will also now come under pressure to widen the scope of the inquiry to take into account alleged corruption in other Olympic bid campaigns.

49.   By Friday, almost all the Olympic bid flags and banners that once decked Istanbul had been taken down.

50.   China has charged two veteran pro-democracy activists with subversion after delaying action to avoid disrupting its Olympic bid, a human rights group said Thursday.