BidWeek: With Rome’s 2024 Olympic Bid In Jeopardy, Is The Race Set For A Shakeup?
Though the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last week invited 2024 Olympic bids from Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome to continue along the path of …
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BidWeek: A Politically Correct Non-Shortlist
BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – Every two years the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board had a week where they could …
BidWeek: Why Does It Take So Long for the IOC To Choose a Host City?
BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – Apple’s Siri tells me it’s been 254 days since the September 15 International Olympic Committee …
BidWeek: Could Tokyo Have Bought the 2020 Olympic Games? An Analytical Look Back
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Somehow the Olympic movement, and sport in general, have survived the week and we’re still trudging …
BidWeek: USOC Banks on Trump, Stadium Deal – 11 Years Ago
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – This week I stumbled upon a report published in GamesBids.com eleven years ago – May 11, 2005. At the …
BidWeek: Paris Takes a Shine to L.A.’s Sunny Tagline; 500 Days to Lima
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Tensions mounted between the perceived 2024 Olympic bid front-runners this week as Paris’ bid for the Games …
BidWeek: 100 Days To Rio; Tokyo 2020 Logo’s Chequered Past
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Wednesday marked the 100-days-to-go milestone for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The date passed with a mere blip …
BidWeek: Baumann Wins at SportAccord, Switzerland and Canada Ponder Bids for 2026 and Beyond
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – The best in international sport business gathered this week at the SportAccord Convention in the Olympic …
Swiss Olympic Considers Agenda 2020, Sets Realistic Roadmap For Olympic Bidders
Attention interested bidders for future Olympic Games: Swiss Olympic, the National Olympic Committee for Switzerland, has done you a huge favour – and …
BidWeek: Logopalooza Strikes the Olympic World and JTA Follows Sun To Support LA 2024
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Interesting news came out of London, UK this week that could be a significant boost thousands of kilometers …