Could New York’s Olympic dreams be dashed? An ethics committee is now looking into overstepped its bounds during a pitch to athletes and sports leagues this weekend.

It was supposed to be the last grand push for the 2012 games in New York, but could the mayor’s visit to Berlin this past weekend push the city out of contention?

The International OIympics Committee is now looking into whether NY tried to sweeten its deal by promising to market lesser known Olympic sports over the next seven years. These are promises it may have never made before.

“There’s no reason to think anything we’ve done is in is contrary to what the rules are,” says Bloomberg.

The rules say cities can’t add to their plan after the final bid is in. And Olympics organizers were adamant today they didn’t do that. They say the city’s original bid talks about the formation of an “Olympic sports marketing council” to promote Olympic sports in collaboration with the international federations.”

But this weekend, NYC2012 pitched things like free computers and office space to sports leagues, which are things, not mentioned in the bid.

“The concept was clearly outlined. The cities have been very careful as we’ve moved along over this now three year period to make sure you don’t put everything out in the beginning because you have a tendency then of your rivals copying what you do,” says Mike Moran of NYC2012.

The International Olympic Committee has been sensitive to even the appearance of impropriety since the bid-rigging scandal before the 2002 games in Salt Lake City.

The president of the IOC said today: “We do not want a kind of bidding war in the last days by the candidate cities to say, ‘I promise you that,’ and the next day, ‘I promise you that. This is not good for the Olympic movement.”

The ethics committee is also investigating whether London made similar offers not detailed in their bid.

The results could come as early as Friday. Depending on the outcome, the cities could be forced to take those proposals off the table which could put them at a disadvantage.

(Agencies)