Top Olympic Bid Stories of 2008: Beijing Sets Bar Too High and Doha Gets Shut Out
As GamesBids.com first ever Top Ten Olympic bid Stories list for 2008 closes in on the top – we have a look at two very significant stories that occured …
Top Olympic Bid Stories of 2008: Singapore and Innsbruck Win First Bids For Youth Olympic Games
Continuing GamesBids.com’s first ever Top Ten Olympic bid Stories list for 2008 we look at a different kind of Olympic bid that debuted this year. Bids …
Top Olympic Bid Stories of 2008: Durban's Seriously Unreal Winter Bid; Korea's Really Serious Winter Bid
Today we continue our first ever Top Ten Olympic bid Stories list for 2008 with #8 and #7. These stories, from the mainstream to the obscure, impacted the …
Commonwealth Games Association of Canada CEO Lashes Out at Criticism Over Halifax’s Demise
The Commonwealth Games Association of Canada CEO Thomas Jones rebukes the criticism of the demise of the Halifax 2014 bid by GamesBids.com producer Rob …
Halifax’s Scrapped Commonwealth Games Bid Another Canadian Failure
Halifax’s scrapped Commonwealth Games bid follows in the heals of Toronto’s indifference to an elaborate potential World’s Fair bid. How will …
Olympic Bid Evaluation Visits Don’t Get The Message Across
Are bid evaluation visits overrated? What can a bid committee do to get the message across? Rob Livingstone provides insight in his current BidBlog… …
Struggling Olympic Winter Bids Look To London 2012 For Inspiration
What have Sochi, Salzburg and PyeongChang – the 2014 Olympic Winter Games Bid Committees – learned from past bids? Rob Livingstone provides insight …
Now That's What I'm Talking About
It’s been over eight years since I launched GamesBids.com*, a Website designed to take an unbiased and informative look at the Olympic bid process. That …
New Beijing 2008 Olympic Logo Revealed – Represents Humanity
The new Beijing 2008 Olympic Games emblem will include a single Chinese character on a traditional Chinese seal-cutting with the words “Beijing …