IOC wants cities to avoid bidding war

Thursday, April 21, 2005

BERLIN -- Determined to avoid a return to the abuses and corruption of the past, IOC president Jacques Rogge warned the five cities vying for the 2012 Olympics to obey ethics rules and stay out of a "bidding war."

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