Are the Olympics a giant scam?

In response to its request for $200 million from Congress, a veteran sportswriter contends that the US Olympic Committee is irredeemably corrupt.

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Understand this about our current USOPC structure: It is an empty can, a receptacle for catching all the cash that falls to it from huge fees for Olympic broadcast rights and licensing, none of which it truly generates, and none of which would exist without the athletes. As a nonprofit, its main role should be to distribute that money directly to athletes. But somehow the money always gets clogged in a bewildering array of pipes that, when you can disentangle them, almost invariably leads to someone wearing a blazer instead of sneakers. According to the USOPC’s latest tax documents, $13.7 million went to legal fees. Compensation for just its top officers came to $7.6 million. ...... No one should ever send another dime to this giant slush fund again — not taxpayers, not Congress and not misled donors. Not until it has been totally reconstituted, into a pipeline directly to athletes.

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