The New Lords of the Rings: Olympic Corruption and How to Buy Gold Medals

by Andrew Jennings

The world of modern Olympic sport is a secretive, elite domain where decisions are taken behind closed doors, where money is spent on creating a fabulous life-style for a tiny circle of officials and funds destined for sport are siphoned away to offshore bank accounts. This investigation of the hidden corruption behind the Olympic ideal how Princess Anne's attempt to unseat the unpopular athletics supremo Primo Nibiolo was sabotaged by secret deals from within, how bribes were paid to win gold medals for Korean boxers in the Seoul Olympics, that Berlin's bid for the 2000 Olympics was so corrupt that the State parliament set up an enquiry, that millions of dollars are spent by bidding cities to woo those who decide where the games will be held, when in fact often the decision has already been made, and that the Olympic number two, Korea's Dr Kim Un Yung, is a trained killer and a former spy.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Andrew Jennings is an internationally respected journalist, writer and film-maker. His seminal book exposing Olympic corruption `The Lords of the Rings' was an international bestseller in 1992. He has written for The Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and New Statesman as well as for publications all over Europe. For many years he produced and reported for Granada TV's World in Action and also for BBC radio and television. ~ Amazon bio

Reviews

[Devan Wiebe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this on the recommendation of my new boss's boss. As I am about to start working on Olympic sponsorship, this was an eye-opening read that gave me some needed perspective on the IOC's troubling origin story. The corruption and doping did not surprise me, but the depth of the political scandals did!

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

for the cynics among us