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...vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After all, this is about much more than prestige. Over its four-year cycle, a summer Olympic Games could generate $10 billion in spending for the host city...
...Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal?usually a very good meal?but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could not be overcome. The Japanese claimed the commission had jumbled the figures on Osaka's public finance obligations to the tune of $25.5 billion...
...vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After all, this is about much more than prestige. Over its four-year cycle, a summer Olympic Games could generate $10 billion in spending for the host city...
...second-best jump in the world this season. The only athletes to reach such heights this year are American Amy Acuff, who also cleared 1.96 meters in Osaka, Japan last Saturday, and Russian Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete, who cleared 1.97 meters in March...
...latest IOC report is essentially a technical assessment of each city's readiness to mount an Olympic-scale spectacle - Istanbul and Osaka fared badly on this score, making them rank outsiders - ahead of a July vote by IOC members to award the games. Although political considerations are not supposed to weigh directly in IOC deliberations, delegates won't be unaware of the political implications of their choice. Beijing has made hosting the Olympiad a diplomatic priority, particularly after it lost to Sydney in the bid for 2000. And that vote reveals the complex politics of the voting process, in which...