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This 10 page paper begins with the selection of New York City as the United States' contender to host these Games. It discusses the type of presentation made by the New York committee and reports comments suggesting the vote was driven by sympathy rather than by other factors. The writer presents arguments for and against New York hosting the Games and reports on committees of residents who oppose the Games being held in New York City. The different venues that will be constructed such as the Olympic Village and a new stadium are described as is a proposed new ferry system to transport athletes. The costs of the construction is also presented. Some of the many concerns of citizens are described. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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been narrowed to San Francisco and New York City from the original eight candidate cities that included Tampa, Washington-Baltimore and Houston (Brennan, 2002; Wilson, 2002). In the voting, New York
City received 132 votes out of a possible 223 from the Committee members who met in Colorado Springs, Colorado (Brennan, 2002). This does not mean that New York City
will definitely host the 2012 Summer Olympics, it just means this city is the representative from the United States in a field of international competition. While every country contending to
host these particular Olympic Games has not identified their representative in this race, competitors for host may well include Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Madrid, Toronto, and London, among others
(Brennan, 2002). The International Olympic Committee will make its choice in July 2005 (Brennan, 2002). For this national competition, each city offered a 60-minute presentation to the United States Olympic
Committee promoting the city and then spent 30 minutes responding to questions (Brennan, 2002). New York flexed its muscles for the presentation by bringing out the stars, like Jerry Seinfeld,
Robert DeNiro and Woody Allen who appeared via videotape (Brennan, 2002). Billy Crystal and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani had spent the week in Colorado Springs lobbying for New York City
(Brennan, 2002). Olympian Bob Beamon, who broke the long-jump record in the 1969 Games held in Mexico City began the presentation referring to New York City as "the place that
has welcomed more people with the dream than anywhere else" and Giuliani received a standing ovation when he spoke about how the city had recovered so quickly from the September
11, 2001 attacks (Brennan, 2002). Giuliani said: "We have what it takes. We absolutely love big events and we will not fail you. We will do whatever it takes to
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