New York to host Olympic for the rich?
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NEW YORK: Tickets for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics will cost US$1,500 if New York City win the bid to hold the prestigious sporting event, it emerged on Thursday.
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[World News]: London, Nov 20 :London has launched its bid to host the 2012 Olympics with a pledge that it would be &quot;the best Games the world has ever seen&quot;.
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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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NEW YORK - It looks like the U.S. billionaire's club isn't quite as exclusive as it once was...
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A massive injection of cash for grassroots sport and a new national stadium for athletics are included in a multi-million pound legacy promised by London&#39;s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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MUMBAI: Media moghul and billionaire chairman of News Corp Rupert Murdoch has, according to agency reports, offered to buy a penthouse in New York&#39;s upscale Manhattan area for cool $44 million.
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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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The expense of securing the Olympic Games has become so daunting for host cities and nations that it is now time for Olympic officials to consider international cost-sharing
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ON Monday, New York City submitted its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games to the International Olympic Committee, and next July, in Singapore, the IOC will decide.
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The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Games think they have a realistic chance to beat the four European capitals with which they are competing.
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International Olympic Committee  members visit New York next week to judge the city's bid for  the 2012 Games but they're in for a surprise: In a creek next  to the proposed Olympic Village is a half-century-old,  17-million gallon oil spill.
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Paris - not New York - is the front-runner for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the top US Olympic official said yesterday. &quot;We&#39;re not in first,&quot; said Peter Ueberroth, chairman of the board of directors of the US Olympic Committee.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee said Monday it has received bids from London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Despite claiming to want to get away from everything familiar, affluent New Yorkers really want to be at one of the in-crowd vacation spots.
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Latest estimates of the costs of hosting the Athens Olympics put them at up to $10bn - a huge amount for a small country like Greece, once the poorest in the EU.
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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.
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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.