Talking to the media on Sunday, IOC president Jacques Rogge told how he’s set up a firm to monitor illegal betting patterns in relation to the Olympic Games. International Sports Monitoring (ISM) will monitor the gambling industry for signs that illegal betting is taking place on IOC events.
“One day there will be match fixing in the Olympic Games,” Rogge commented, “That is why we built a company which has already monitored the Beijing and Vancouver games.”
No incidents have so far been identified by the IOC at the two events in Vancouver (Winter Olympics) and Beijing (Summer Olympics) that they trialled the system at. The summer Olympics in London will be one the next event the system is used at.