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BidWeek: 2024 Bid Less of a Race, More of a Luxury Shopping Spree For IOC

The Olympic power brokers must be doing their happy-dances at the edge of Lac Leman in the Olympic Capital this week. Forget the doom-and-gloom reports of …

BidWeek: Gloves Were Off For Olympic Bids As Los Angeles, Paris Battled In Denmark

BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – It was all smiles last Tuesday from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and his Paris counterpart Anne Hidalgo as …

BidWeek: Race Not To Host the 2028 Games Is On As Olympic Bids Navigate New Twist

BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Campaigns to host the 2024 Olympic Games by Paris and Los Angeles are quickly realizing that their key to winning …

BidWeek: “No Boston Olympics” Movement Touches Paris 2024, Calgary 2026 – Will The IOC Be Next?

Reporting From Toronto, Canada – “Know your enemy,” Chinese General Sun Tzu famously urged in The Art of War. The Calgary Bid Exploration …

BidWeek: A Final Tumultuous Week Before 2024 Olympic Bids Head Into The International Competition

BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – It has been one crazy week for the three bids vying to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games – but …