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Will Kim Win?(Kim Un Yong contends for International Olympic Committee)(Brief Article)

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When International Olympic Committee delegates convene in Moscow next week, they face two huge decisions: whether to entrust the 2008 Games to Beijing, and even more critical, who should succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch as the IOC's president.

Since the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, the IOC has pushed hard for reforms. So it is to the surprise of many that South Korea's Kim Un Yong-- hardly a reformist--has emerged as a serious contender for Samaranch's throne. Kim was the most prominent Olympic leader implicated in the Salt Lake City scandal.

But he is nonetheless a front-runner, having capitalized on his support for Third World athletic programs and benefited from a backlash against the United States (which, in the eyes of many IOC delegates, provoked the Salt Lake ...

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