NYC calls in atheletes to celebrate completion of its Olympic bid
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NEW YORK A few days before the deadline, New York City finished its plan for the 2012 Olympics. So it staged a party to send the bid off to the International Olympic Committee: a relay of athletes carrying the 600-page bid book across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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ATHENS It begins. On Monday afternoon on Sky Radio - Greek talk radio with an Anglo title - a caller made the following observation: &quot;All these countries are sending us congratulations for a great Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - If anyone deserved a party, it was the people of Athens.    The flame went out on the Olympics during a closing ceremony Sunday night that honored the birthplace of the games with an ebullient display of Greek pride and symbolism, a relief-filled celebration of the ancient and the new...
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The five cities looking to host the 2012 Summer Games submitted bids to the International Olympic Committee on Monday, entering the final stage of a long process in hopes of landing one of the biggest prizes in sports.
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LONDONâS bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games was submitted to the International Olympic Committee yesterday, along with those from the rival cities of New York, Paris, Moscow and Madrid.
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New York's best asset in its bid to  host the 2012 Olympics is the city itself, campaign leader  Daniel Doctoroff said on Wednesday.
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New York, Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow submitted their final bids to be host of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, partygoers are making Times Square in New York City the top destination spot to ring in the new year, according to a survey of Priceline.
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Kelly Holmes holds up her Olympic medals as Britain&#39;s team parades through London. Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images. Thousands of people lined the streets of central London today to pay tribute to Britain&#39;s
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Britainâs Olympic heroes were saluted with a tickertape parade today as fans turned out to celebrate their success. Thousands descended on central London to make
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For Americans, it&#39;s just as well that the Olympics came to a conclusion Sunday. Over the weekend, the ends of America&#39;s almost
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Scores of people rallied at ground zero Saturday to remember the fallen, and call for a more thorough search for the bone fragments still being found at the World Trade Center site.
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New York&#39;s best asset in its bid to host the 2012 Olympics is the city itself, campaign leader Daniel Doctoroff said on Wednesday.
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ATHENS -- Evita Agiasoteli has been counting Greece's Olympic medals. Each one comes with a celebration from the boy next door, who likes to run through their neighborhood in the northern Athenian suburb of Nea Ionia yelling &quot;Hellas!&quot; with each gold. Other neighbors often leave their evening yogurts unfinished so they can join the boy's victory cheer.
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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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In the midst of the heaving throng of more than 100,000 who turned out in Athens to welcome home the victorious Greek soccer team last month, someone asked how Athens would deal with the crowds during the Olympics.
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âWeâre going to have a party,â Maurice Greene said Saturday, looking forward to todayâs final in the Olympic menâs 100-meter dash.