The Olympics

The Olympics

Text

News, information and stories about the Olympic Games.

Thursday, 3 February 2005

Paris in The Lead

Paris is currently in the lead, to win the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.



Today, the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission arrives in Madrid; to conduct its first review of the plans submitted by the five cities, who hope to host the games.



The review process is expect to be completed by March, the final decision will be announced in July of this year in Singapore.



Paris's bid was helped by the fact that the Queen told a visitor to a Buckingham Palace reception, that she expected Paris to win. Then, compounding London's embarrassment, a newspaper claimed that London had "in effect abandoned hope of winning".



No comments:

Post a Comment