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	RTÉ.ie Sport - London submits 2012 Olympic bid
		London is 2-1, Madrid 13-2, New York 12-1 and Moscow at 33-1.
		London's bid includes the construction of a brand new sporting complex aimed at reviving east London, but also includes tradition sites in the capital with Horseguard's Parade, Hyde Park and Lord's all potential venues.
		London's bid does not feature one specific sales pitch, but rather outlines every aspect of how the nation's capital could successfully stage the world's biggest sporting event, Coe said.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2004/1115/2012.html (516 words)

	London Olympics 2012 - London Olympic History
		For both, the Olympic movement was grateful to London for filling in when other candidates were thin on the ground, a debt London hopes the International Olympic committee will make good for 2012.
		London wins the right to gold the 2012 games, it’ll be 64 years since the big show was last in town.
		London was not considered at all in the 30 or so years after 1948, for the simple and just reason that it had recently hosted an Olympics.
	www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/guide/about/olympics2012_history.html (1024 words)

	London 2012 Olympic Bid - Demand for Standards
		Second, if a London Olympics is to be anything more than part of the entertainment industry, it must aspire to inspire - it must embody the best values and standards of our times, not just in sport, but also in governance and social responsibility.
		It should also review the bid in full before the final bid dossier is filed with IOC in 2005, with a view to making a go/no go recommendation to the government.
		CIVIL LIBERTIES: Rule 61 of the Olympic Charter states that "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in the Olympic areas." For a London bid to succeed, the Government and the GLA will have to sign a document committing them upholding this rule.
	www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/Olympics/London/Standards.html (2120 words)

	London 2012 Olympic bid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olympic Zone was to encompass all of the facilities within the 500 acre (2 km²) Olympic Park in Stratford.
		The bid envisaged that 80% of athletes would be within 20 minutes of their events and 97% would be within 30 minutes of their events.
		The first chairman of the London Olympic Bid was airline executive Barbara Cassani.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_2012_Olympic_bid (3301 words)

	Mayor of London - 2012 Olympic bid, benefits for London
		London is one of the cultural capitals of the world.
		The 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games will be accompanied by a four-year cultural festival.
		The festival will take place across the whole of London and will celebrate every element of the vibrant cultural life of the UK and its capital through events, exhibitions and educational activities.
	www.london.gov.uk /mayor/olympics/benefits-culture.jsp (192 words)

	London launches 2012 Olympic bid
		London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games comes with a promise of huge new investment in transport and accommodation, the authorities in the British capital have revealed.
		The centrepiece of the London bid, due to be launched on Friday by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is a purpose-built stadium and Olympic village in Stratford, a suburb to the east of the capital, which will be home to the 11,000 athletes.
		A massively improved transport system for London, with enhanced Tube and mainline services, is also part of the British capital's Olympic bid.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/jan/16bid.htm (335 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Olympics 2012 \| London launches Olympic bid
		Brand new facilities will be built in the Olympic Park in the east of the capital as part of plans to regenerate a rundown area of the city.
		Bid organisers are keen to stress that their plans for the Olympic Park offer the most compact venue ever proposed to the International Olympic Committee.
		Paris, one of London's rivals, unveiled its bid with a glitzy ceremony at the Eiffel Tower on Friday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics_2004/olympics_2012/3393681.stm (674 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - NEWS
		The London 2012 Olympic Games vision is underpinned by four main themes: delivering the experience of a lifetime for athletes, leaving a legacy for sport, benefiting the community through regeneration and supporting the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Movement.
		Through London’s position as a global media and marketing centre, London 2012 will be able to convey the excitement and spectacle of the Games to the largest audience ever, while ensuring that the Games are also a financial success.
		London 2012 is committed to “Excellence without extravagance” and it is for this reason that new venues will be built only where clear legacy needs have been identified and sporting and business plans developed for post-Games use.
	www.olympic.org /uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=1386 (568 words)

	London 2012 Summer Olympic Games Bid
		London hosted in 1908 after Rome was elected but the host city was switched.
		London hosted in 1948 when they were chosen on short notice because of World War II.
		London had won the bid for the 1944 Games that were cancelled due to the War.
	www.gamesbids.com /english/bids/london.shtml (100 words)

	London Olympic Bid - December 2002
		This was part of the wider process of consultation on whether to bid for the Olympics in 2012.
		Londoners’ themselves want the Games to be held in their city, with 82% backing a bid.
		An alternative to London attempting to host the 2012 Olympic Games would be for the UK to bid for the 2014 World Cup.
	www.icmresearch.co.uk /reviews/2003/dcms-olympic-bid-dec-02.htm (1032 words)

	Olympic Bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The WSF will be inviting guests from the IOC, and London's 2012 Olympic bid team, to see top-class squash at first hand at the ISS Canary Wharf Classic, which takes place this week in London's Docklands.
		The event, which is being staged a gentle lob away from Lord Coe's 2012 London Bid offices at Canary Wharf, features eight of the world's leading 11 players in action on a brand new all-glass court.
		Neither is likely to be in action should squash gain a place in the 2012 Olympic Games, but one man hoping to be at the peak of his career then is 21-year-old rising star James Willstrop.
	www.squashsite.co.uk /olympicbid2.htm (571 words)

	BBC - London - Sport - Olympic bid 2012 - London 2012 logo competition
		London's 2012 Olympic bid has taken a step forward with the launch of a competition to find a logo to spearhead the project.
		David Magliano, Director of Marketing for London 2012, has opened the competition to all in his search for an iconic image to capture the spirit and ethos of the capital's push for the games.
		Chairman of London 2012, Barbara Cassani, will share her vision for the bid, and explain the brief and requirements for those entering submissions.
	www.bbc.co.uk /london/sport/olympics/london_logo.shtml (395 words)

	Bexley Council - London 2012 Olympic Bid & Bexley
		The IOC members were impressed and delighted by the passion of both London and the rest of the country for this bid.
		This is especially the case in terms of raising awareness of sport and physical activity, pride, economic spin offs associated with increased tourism and profile of the host nation across the world, educational benefits, additional sports facilities and equipment and the general feel-good factor.
		The Olympics will provide a backdrop for the UK and participating countries to explore issues such as fairness, tolerance and inclusion, not only through sport, but also through cross-cultural themes such as music, art and cultural expression.
	www.bexley.gov.uk /service/sports/olympics.html (860 words)

	London's Olympic 2012 bid
		London's bid is centred on a run-down area in the east of the city, where the Olympic village would be built.
		They say London's experience in dealing with terrorism, such as the 30-year campaign waged by the IRA and more recently the threat from Islamic militants, put London's Metropolitan Police in good stead to cope with the Games.
		The budget is "well-supported and achievable" and its bid "indicated a high level of planning".
	inhome.rediff.com /sports/2005/jul/06oly2.htm (723 words)

	London 2012 - Olympic Bid - The Sports Fora
		London 2012 is committed to ensuring that no venues are built without a clear plan for their post-Olympic use.
		London has over 70,000 three/five star hotel rooms within 10km of the city centre, with a further 20,000 hotel rooms due to be built by 2012.
		As well as those Olympic events to be staged outside London, the rest of the UK will also benefit economically by creating world class training facilities to be used for pre-Games preparation by many of the 200 competing teams, and by organising pre-Olympic cultural and sporting events.
	www.gaffersports.com /forum/showthread.php?t=865 (2131 words)

	London's Olympic dream in tatters \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		London has in effect abandoned hope of winning the 2012 Olympic Games, because it is so far behind Paris, key members of the bidding team have told The Observer.
		The senior figures behind the capital's bid to stage the world's largest sporting event have admitted that they expect the French capital to win the five-city race when the decision is announced on 6 July.
		One member of the 2012 bid's board said London's chances of securing votes from the 117 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were hampered by the government's perceived under-investment in sport and Britain's broken promise to hold this year's World Athletics Championships.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /london2012/story/0,14213,1401945,00.html (760 words)

	London 2012 Olympic Bid
		The extent of spending on infrastructure for the Athens Olympics is so huge it's hard to establish an exact figure, but the majority of the famous "Olympic Legacy" of Athens is in fact being largely borne by EU taxpayers under the unaudited and colossally wasteful Community Support Funds.
		The Olympics should be a model of good, open governance, so that not only can we point to the athletes as models of their generation, but we can point to the organisation as a model for corporations and charities around the world.
		Before the final bid dossier is presented to the IOC in 2005, allow Londoners to vote on whether or not to proceed with the bid.
	www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/Olympics/London/London01.html (1672 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:London wins 2012 Olympic bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, defeating European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948.
		After Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds, London beat its cross-Channel opponent on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote - capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history.
		A buzzing crowd watched a giant TV screen in London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, waiting to learn whether the city had won the right to host the 2012 Olympics.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/07/06/60532_.html (241 words)

	What earned London the Olympic 2012 bid? : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		London's winning bid for the 2012 Olympics could have been helped by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member pressing the wrong button during the voting process, according to a BBC report.
		London then beat Paris 54-50 in the final round of voting, although it is widely believed that Madrid would have been a bigger threat to London had they got through to the final round where Paris votes would have moved across to their bid.
		Alex Gilady, an Israeli IOC member and part of the London 2012 Co-ordination Commission, tells the programme that another IOC member, thought to be Lambis Nikolaou of Greece, made the mistake.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1580639,00050003.htm (811 words)

	Press Releases - London 2012 Olympic Bid leader inspired by Africa to bring best Olympic Games to the world in 2012 : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		London 2012's senior bid team are in Accra, Ghana, where they will make a presentation to members of the African National Olympic Committee Association today.
		The delegation is led by Sebastian Coe, Chairman of London 2012, Craig Reedie, Chairman of the British Olympic Association, Keith Mills, International President and Chief Executive of London 2012, and double Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson.
		When the London 2012 bid team make their presentation this afternoon, they will be carrying messages of support from London’s many African communities and London 2012 ambassadors.
	www.lda.gov.uk /server/show/ConWebDoc.1139 (592 words)

	London submits 2012 Olympic bid \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic games - described by the campaign chairman, Lord Coe, as a "winning formula" - was today being presented to the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland.
		London's bid was today boosted by the publication of an ICM poll suggesting that 75% of Britons backed the campaign, as well as news of confirmation that all 28 international sports federations had approved the planned facilities detailed in the city's file.
		London's bid would transform 1,500 acres of east London's Lower Lea Valley - one of the UK's most deprived areas - into the main Olympic site.
	www.guardian.co.uk /olympics2012/story/0,14174,1351713,00.html?=rss (605 words)

	Cherie Blair unveils London 2012 Olympic bid countdown clock, 22 April 2005
		The Countdown Clock, sponsored by London 2012 Premier Partner, EDF Energy, will mark the days, hours and minutes to the final decision on 6th July in the heart of London, Trafalgar Square, one of many stunning landmarks designated for Olympic sporting and cultural events if London hosts the Games.
		The new Countdown Clock was unveiled by London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe and by leading bid ambassador Cherie Blair.
		London 2012 ambassador Cherie Blair said: "I know that winning the right to host the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games here in London would be a huge boost to the capital, the UK and the Olympic Movement.
	www.britbot.de /en/news/items/050422.htm (224 words)

	London to host 2012 Olympics - City University London
		City University is celebrating London’s success in winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
		After a nail-biting race to the winning post with Paris, London has come out on top, and City University will be supporting the London Olympics in every way it can.
		During the 1908 Olympics City’s swimming pool was used by athletes as a training pool.
	www.city.ac.uk /citynews/archive/2005/06072005_1.html (211 words)

	Reporter - Imperial students back London’s 2012 Olympic bid
		Imperial students have joined others representing London’s 42 universities and higher education colleges, to support the city’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
		London’s universities have offered more than 12,000 rooms to support the technical and support staff needed to run the games, as well as providing volunteers and volunteer training.
		The event was organised by London Higher, an umbrella organisation for London higher education institutions.
	www.imperial.ac.uk /P5830.htm (279 words)

	Exhibition invites residents to back London's 2012 Olympic bid
		London is bidding against New York, Moscow, Paris and Madrid.
		Visitors to the exhibition will discover a wide variety of information, including why London is making the bid, reasons to back the bid, and key information about 2012 business opportunities, volunteering, transport, sports venues, and the potential benefits a successful London bid could bring to Sutton.
		With just over two weeks of Londonâs campaign left, residents can still show their support and back Londonâs bid by texting LONDON to 82012 or by registering support via the website http://www.london2012.com/.
	www.sutton.gov.uk /news/pressreleases2005/jun05/pr-500.htm (331 words)

	British Embassy Tel Aviv, News: London 2012 Olympic bid
		When the original discussions took place over two years ago as to whether the Government should back a bid for 2012, there was enthusiasm in principle, but much anxiety as to whether in practice London could win.
		London's bid was built on a special Olympic vision.
		There's been a terrific partnership between the Mayor for London, Ken Livingstone and the GLA; the chairman of the British Olympic Association, Craig Reedie, and all his colleagues; and Mike Brace, Chairman of the British Paraolympic Association and all his colleagues.
	www.britemb.org.il /News/straw060705.html (844 words)

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