41.   OKS will offer education, management and consulting services to Olympic host organizing committees and Olympic bid cities.

42.   Osaka, Japan, and Istanbul, Turkey, were virtually eliminated as Olympic hosts, leaving the contest as essentially a three-city race.

43.   Salt Lake City may be the Olympic host, but Utah still wants to know how the Jazz and high school athletes are faring.

44.   SOCOG said Australians would have the greatest per capita access to tickets of any Olympic host nation.

45.   That shaped up as the most likely choice facing the IOC on Saturday in the first selection of an Olympic host city since the Salt Lake City bribery scandal.

46.   Such a commitment could open the door for an African Olympic host for the first time, Rogge said in an interview with the Rome-based sports daily.

47.   The Australians said that other nations traditionally have kept their training facilities open to foreign athletes even when they played Olympic host.

48.   Sydney will be the first Olympic host to enforce the new rules.

49.   The executive meeting is also expected to recommend sweeping changes in bidding procedures, including a ban on visits by IOC members to potential Olympic host cities.

50.   The IOC also had been expected to announce changes in the Olympic host city selection process.