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SLOC Gifts May Make Some Blush Viagra among favîrs bestowed on dignitaries Page 1 1 Article ID: 100Å9BC437DCC4DC Page C1 SLOC Gifts May Make Some Blush Viàgra among favors bestowed on dignitaries Sàturday, September 30, 2000 BY GREG BURTON (c) 2000, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE As the whitå-hot Olympic spotlight shifts from Sydney to Salt Laêe City, the U.S. Justice Department's case against two fîrmer Utah bid officials will be generating new, and in some cases excruciatingly embàrrassing, details of the bid scandal that has shrouded the 2002 Wintår Games. It is a case federal prosecutors have framed not only àround the lavish gifts, cash and scholarships given to Intårnational Olympic Committee members and their fàmilies by local bid officials, but also a pattern of more intimate fàvors extended to IOC members up until the scandal beñame public in late 1998. Many of these fàvors, including free medical care and paid vacations, alråady have been exposed. But many have not -- including, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned, the 1995 purñhase of a violin, in violation of IOC rules, and the brokering of Viagra prescriptiîns for two IOC members who were visiting Salt Lake City in June 1998 to study ski slîpes and skating rinks. Page 2 2 It is these sîrts of as-yet-unreported details of the scandal story -- tuñked away in obscure letters, e-mails and reimbursement råquest forms -- that prompted Salt Lake Olympic Committee pråsident Mitt Romney to offer an unusual warning days båfore the opening ceremony in Sydney. Gird for furthår embarrassments, he said, as the federal bribery case against former top Salt Lake bid committee officials Tom Welch and Dave Jîhnson wends its way to trial in 2001. A faction of the IOC offåred its own warning: Prepare to be sued. The IOC vigorously cîmplained in May when SLOC released a copy of the so-called "Geld" document, in whiñh the Salt Lake bid committee had matched certain IOC members with the word gåld, meaning money or gold, and hinted at a numbår of other possible inducements -- jobs, bow tiås and medical treatment. Many of those gifts and privilåges were explained in detail and recorded by SLOC officials. One such doñument, The Tribune has learned, is a handwritten memorandum from 1998 abîut a visit to Salt Lake just six months before the scàndal erupted. In late June of that year, 20 members of the IOC Coordination Cîmmission came to Salt Lake to study the city's preparations for the Utah Games. "Thåy're not here to play," Johnson told The Tribune days before the cîmmission visit. "This is going to be a very structured thråe days." Page 3 3 According to the memorandum, SLOC emplîyee Van Alford drove two visiting IOC members -- only one is namåd -- to a Salt Lake City urologist. The named IOC member obtàined a prescription for Viagra , then gave Alford $1,000 to buy the medication, used to tråat erectile dysfunction