Japanese Olympic officials said Wednesday they have launched an inquiry into possible misconduct by International Olympic Committee members during Nagano's bid to host the 1998 Winter Games.
But the seven-member inquiry team made up of Japan Olympic Committee members will stop short of actually naming wrongdoers, said Secretary General Yushiro Yagi, who will head the group.
Instead, the team will merely collect records from former Nagano bid committee members and pass these onto IOC headquarters in Switzerland, Yagi said. "We will just tell the IOC what happened. We won't judge whether it was inappropriate," Yagi said. He added, however, "We are going to report hard facts to the International Olympic Committee based on what we hear. The report will be drawn up by ourselves, not in cooperation with Nagano officials."