2014 Olympic bid cities on edge as vote draws near
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Cities bidding to host the 2014 Winter Olympics are holding their breaths with the crucial vote that will pour fame and fortune on the winner less than 48 hours away.
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Tropical Guatemala will be the unlikely venue when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) picks the host of the 2014 Winter Games from a trio of bidding cities after a campaign in which no clear favorite has emerged.
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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's greatest  sporting extravaganza.
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The backdrop of America's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games might be the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears Tower or the Los Angeles Coliseum &#151; or none of these at all.
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ATHENS  By the measure of the medal table, the approaching conclusion of the Olympics&#39; first week seems to promise some sense of normalcy, with America again shadowing the top of the ...
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NEW YORKâS rush to build an Olympic stadium has provoked a clash between the cityâs billionaire mayor and a multimillionaire cable television tycoon that has thrown the Big Appleâs bid for the 2012 Games into jeopardy.
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Over there, New York City&#39;s final 2012 Olympic bid book officially comes under consideration today at the International Olympic Committee&#39;s Lausanne, Switzerland, headquarters in an otherwise
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London, Nov. 18 - London&#39;s 2012 Olympic bid could make a profit of Â£100 million which would be ploughed back into grassroots sport, it emerged today, while a strong Paris bid launched yesterday, stressing
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Madrid will be the first stop on an IOC tour to assess the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee said Monday its evaluation commission will visit the Spanish capital on Feb. 3-6, followed by London (Feb.
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SOCHI, Russia  - Russia faces a challenge to be ready on time to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials assessing the country's bid for the Games said on Friday.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - The Winter Olympics in Vancouver may be more than two years away, but organizers are already playing the "chess game" of trying to keep individual sports happy as they vie to get time in the international spotlight.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lent support to a bid to play host to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, saying his country wanted a chance to show it could stage a successful Winter Games.Putin said yesterday in Guatemala City that Russia, a leading Olympic medal-winning nation that has never played host to the Winter Olympics, had long supported the Games movement.The International Olympic Committee will decide the winning bid today in the Guatemalan capital, with Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, also in the running.
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Paris widened its lead over its four rivals in the race to host the Olympic Games in 2012, bookmakers said, as the International Olympic Committee prepared to receive the competing bids today.
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The proposed move of the Montreal Expos to the US capital was close to falling through Wednesday after the District of Columbia Council amended legislation to require private financing for at least half the cost of building a new stadium.
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Midway through the race between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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U.S. Olympic officials gave high marks to Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Games on Wednesday, saying the city's plan differed substantially from Los Angeles' rival proposal.
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The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Games think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals.