Africa helped deliver Sydney the Olympics

By Steve Larkin
Updated September 10 2020 - 10:06am, first published 10:00am
John Coates receives the official invitation to the Sydney Olympics in Lausanne back in 1999.
John Coates receives the official invitation to the Sydney Olympics in Lausanne back in 1999.

Dining with two Africans at a plush Monte Carlo hotel, John Coates sensed them wavering.

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