81.   The main parties in the council, including the Social Democratic Party and conservative Moderate Party, voted in favor of the Olympic bid.

82.   The Olympic bid committee is one of the sponsors of the production Saturday.

83.   The prime minister, who customarily backs such Olympic bids, has postponed a decision on the Osaka bid, citing worries about the Olympic scandal.

84.   The show was halted briefly Friday night while the mayor of Chongqing took the stage to announce that the Olympic bid had succeeded.

85.   Transparency International, an organization that battles corruption worldwide, said cities that lost Olympic bids because of corruption should be compensated.

86.   Victory carried another sweet spinoff for the head of Athens Olympic bid committee.

87.   Wheeler explained these and other cash payments to IOC relatives as an established lobbying practice by Olympic bid cities.

88.   While police have found no evidence of a link, there are suspicions the attacks are the work of opponents of the Olympic bid.

89.   Griffith Joyner and her husband-coach Al Joyner gave up on their Olympic bid because of right leg injuries.

90.   In public, ministers remain shy of committing themselves too strongly to an Olympic bid.