SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES 2012 BIDS LONDON, MADRID, MOSCOW, NEW YORK & PARIS

 

XXX Olympiad 27 July to 12 August 2012
XIV Paralympics 29 August to 9 September 2012

SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES 2012 BIDS

The 2012 Summer Olympics are expected to attract some 11,000 athletes plus around 10,000 Olympic "team" personnel such as coaches, track and administrative officials and hierarchy. It is anticipated that in the region of 20,000 representing all aspects of the media will also be in attendance. Around 9 million spectators are expected, although many of these will be from the home country and will not require accommodation.

Hosting the prestigious Olympics can be an extremely expensive but rewarding experience and the competition for this accolade is awesome. Athletes from all disciplines dream of one day being able to represent their country on home soil.

The 2012 Olympic host city contenders were all big players and a closely fought battle for supremacy was expected.

The original list of cities vying for the honour of becoming the 2012 Olympics Host City, included: Rio de Jainero in Brazil, Leipzig in Germany, Istanbul in Turkey and Havana, Cuba.

THE FINAL DECISION ON WHICH CITY WOULD HOST THE 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES AND PARALYMPICS WAS ANNOUNCED IN SINGAPORE ON 6 July 2005.

During May, the IOC made public their evaluations of all the candidate cities leaving a month for each city to make a final push for victory.

All cities bidding for the 2012 took advantage of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games to see how they did things and to learn first hand from their experiences. They were all invited to Athens by the organising committee and had various meetings to discuss their findings.

Before the final vote was taken and announced, the Candidate Cities travelled to Australia, Ghana and Germany where each had the opportunity to present their bid and lobby for votes in the run up to their final presentation and chance to try and win votes in Singapore