Provisional Budget for 2006 Olympics OK'd
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Organizers for the 2006 Turin Olympics approved a provisional budget Tuesday that includes aid from a public agency to cover a shortfall estimated at more than $245 million.
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THE Athens Summer Olympic Games cost host country Greece nearly 9 billion euros ($15.23 billion), Greek Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said today, citing definitive figures.
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The Budget for 2005 was approved in Parliament on Wednesday evening, ending a series of sessions in the House of Representatives.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday -- about $11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history.
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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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Squeezed by a swelling public deficit and debt following last month's costly Athens Olympics, the Greek government said it would cut defence spending and boost revenue by 1.5 billion euros (1.84 billion dollars) in privatisation receipts.
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The bill for staging London&#39;s 2012 Olympics could still rise as the final cost of venues is factored in, the government&#39;s spending watchdog warned Friday.
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London&#39;s 600-page final bid document, which organisers hope will win them the 2012 Games, is to be formally handed over to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne tomorrow by a 14-year-old Newham schoolgirl.
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A look at projected spending for the government's 2005 budget year, which began Oct. 1, and in 2014, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday &#151; about &#36;11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history. The 2000 Sydney Games cost &#36;1.5 billion and the 1996 Atlanta Games &#36;1.72 billion.
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The final cost of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games, at $11.6 billion, was $3.1 billion more than originally estimated. But according to Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis, the figure does not include
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Final plans for the five bidding cites for the 2012 Olympics have been handed in to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s headquarters in Lausanne in Switzerland.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  has approved a $1.47 million increase in its expenditure budget  for next year.
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The District of Columbia Council approved financing a ballpark for the Washington-bound Expos after voting Tuesday to cap funding at &#36;630 million.
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More than Â£100million profit is expected to be made from staging the 2012 Olympic Games in London, it has been claimed. The estimate forms part of the London 2012 bid book handed into the International Olympic Committee on Monday.
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The District of Columbia Council approved financing a ballpark for the Washington Nationals after voting Tuesday to cap funding at $630 million.
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BERLIN: Footballâs world governing body FIFA will finance an extravagant, 22-million-euro, pre-World Cup party in Berlin in 2006, it was confirmed on Thursday.