The donation comes as the IOC ends 2004 in its strongest-ever financial position, according to president Jacques Rogge in an interview with a German newspaper.
Rogge tells Sudeutschen Zeitung that the IOC finances are in “very robust health” with between $200million and $225million in cash reserves, up from $98million when he took office in 2001.
Rogge also told the newspaper that he expects Bulgaria’s Ivan Slavkov will be ousted next July when the IOC Session in Singapore votes on a recommendation that he be expelled.
Pressure is believed to rising in Bulgaria for Slavkov to resign soon, reports aroundtherings.com, rather than undergo the ignominy of an expulsion and as a move to save a possible bid from Sofia for the 2014 Winter Games.
Slavkov is in trouble over his appearance in a BBC expose last year, when he was secretly videotaped boasting about his ability to influence the votes of IOC members for the 2012 race.
