IOC seeks more information regarding vote-buying scandalREUTERS International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has another scandal to deal with. Bach was on defense throughout a news conference held on Tuesday (NZT) after a meeting of the IOC executive board, which earlier in the day said it was asking Brazilian authorities for details involving IOC member Carlos Nuzman . Also in the news this week was IOC member Patrick Hickey's resignation from the executive board, a year after being arrested in Brazil in a ticket-scalping investigation. He called getting Paris and Los Angeles on the Olympic calendar a ``golden opportunity'' that the IOC simply couldn't pass up. But all the questions Monday circled back to one simple theme: Does the IOC have an image problem?

Source: Stuff September 12, 2017 02:26 UTC