Big Week for Cities Vying for 2012 Games
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Five cities vying to stage the 2012 Summer Games reveal their hands this week as Olympic chiefs scrutinize their plans for holding the world&#39;s greatest sporting extravaganza.
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London 2012, organizers of the UK capital&#39;s 3.875 billion-pound ($7.2 billion) bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, said it would bring more venues closer to the Olympic Park, improve
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The athletes have packed up. Olympic banners are coming down. But another challenge for the city of Athens is just beginning. It&#39;s a realization that&#39;s just starting to hit the Olympic hosts
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The race for the 2012 Summer Olympics entered its final phase yesterday, as candidate cities from New York to Moscow released the formal bids they hope will land them the Games.
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The national and international promotion of London&#39;s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games began yesterday with 200,000 people lining the streets of the capital and partying in Trafalgar Square.
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Five cities of London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris have submitted their bids for the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the International Olympic Committee (IOC),it was announced by IOC on Monday.
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New York City and four other contenders for the 2012 Olympics submitted their final bids to the International Olympic Committee this week, moving the winner-take-all scrum into its last phase.
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London hopes to show the International Olympic Committee this week it has the political and public support to host the 2012 Olympics.
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The five cities looking to host the 2012 Summer Olympics submitted bids to the International Olympic Committee, with Paris the front-runner to win next year&#39;s vote.
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London 2012âs bid book was released to the public Friday and shows that if London hosts the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, it is expected to make a 100 million pound profit, 60 per cent of which would be spent on grassroots sport in the UK with the
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London is to mark the first anniversary of the city winning the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games with a fun-filled party in Trafalgar Square, organisers said.
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Chicago and six other cities from four continents are officially in the race to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee said it had received formal applications from Chicago; Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; Madrid; Prague; Rio de Janeiro; and Tokyo. Thursday was the deadline to submit applications.
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London and four other cities vying to stage the 2012 Summer Games reveal their hands this week as Olympic chiefs scrutinise their plans for holding the world&#39;s greatest sporting extravaganza.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to Croatia on Friday to present the city's bid for the 2012 Olympics to a group of European Olympic committees.
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Details of London&#39;s bid to host the 2012 Olympic games were unveiled today, with the bid team pledging that the capital could host &quot;the best games the world has ever seen&quot;.
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Paris is confident of maintaining its status as the odds-on favourite to host the 2012 Olympic Games, citing widespread political backing, strong financial support, affordable tickets and 80 per cent of venues within 10 minutes reach.
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New York and four European capitals submitted their final bids to be host of the 2012 Summer Olympics by yesterday&#39;s deadline, the International Olympic Committee announced.