L'amour des jeux - Paris 2012

[jawnbc]

Comments

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

I'll be happy with either Paris or London. NYC has no business being in the final 5.

[timbear.livejournal.com]

That's right, wish the chaos onto somewhere the other side of the world :-)

[jawnbc]

Rio should've been ahead of NYC AND Moscow. Political prejudice factored too highly.

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

Right now Katie's Colon is telling us it's down to the last two cities, London and Paris.

This New Yorker is extremely grateful we're not getting it. Sacrificial goats are bleating in the back forty and the knives are being sharpened in celebration.

[austinw04.livejournal.com]

im assuming you already know....

London it is

http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w070647A.xml

:)

right...

[telemann.livejournal.com]

" NYC has no business being in the final 5."

says you.

Re: right...

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

The NYC bid was never on par with the others. Preliminarily, before Sept 11, their bid was considered to be a fourth place also-ran after the bids from Houston, Washington/Baltimore, and San Francisco. Sept 11 sympathy is what vaulted them to the US choice, even thought the bid was severely disorganized at that time.

After reading through the bid summaries of the final 5, it was clear that NYC didn't have a chance, and the fourth place finish seemed to be quite appropriate. Although I didn't see the Parisian final presentation, I did see London's, and as someone who has followed the bid process for the past 20 years, I have to say I was quite impressed. When they stressed how the athletes would come first, I knew that, unless Paris pulled a rabbit out of their hat, London had probably clinched it.

[jawnbc]

A shocker! Me thinks Chirac blew it for them...

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

The predicted chaos never materialized in Atlanta, SLC or Sydney...London will deal with it fine.

[timbear.livejournal.com]

You miss my point, ultimately they will cope fine with the Olympics, it's just the seven years of transport upgrades that will be necessary to do so that will cause the chaos. Ask anybody who worked in Sydney while their "Olympic" roads were being built.