Another time bomb goes off: head of the U.S. Olympic Committee

Baldwin Admits Academic Discrepancies
Thu May 23, 9:20 PM ET

By John Marshall, AP Sports Writer

DENVER (AP) - U.S. Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin acknowledged discrepancies in her academic credentials that could jeopardize her position in the international sports community.

After returning abruptly from an international Olympic meeting in Malaysia, Baldwin said Thursday that biographical information that claimed she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1962 and received a doctorate from Arizona State in 1967 is inaccurate.

Baldwin said Thursday that she actually left Colorado in 1959 and concluded her undergraduate studies at Arizona State in 1962.

She said she received a master's degree from Arizona State, but didn't complete the dissertation as claimed in her biography because she was trying to run the family farm and take care of two children after her parents died.

"I should have changed it a long time ago, but once it was published it got paralyzing," Baldwin said. "Now I'm going to have to live with it for the rest of my life.