Dallas 2012 president Richard Greene said the Dallas 2012 bid requires few revisions, following a U.S. Olympic Committee review.
Dallas was among eight cities competing to be the U.S. Candidate to host the 2012 Summer Olympics that submitted their bids to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on December 15, to be reviewed. The other seven are Houston, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington-Baltimore.
Greene also said the USOC added provisions to ensure fairness and objectivity in the bid process, including limits on bid committees’ access to USOC board members.
He said “the revisions we will need to make are entirely technical. There’s nothing of any magnitude. No judgments were made on the merits of the bid. They gave us 90 days, and it will take us about nine days”.
The corrected bids must be returned to the USOC by June 1 and then an USOC evaluation team will conduct site visits to examine venues, transportation proposals, logistics, infrastructure and all relevant aspects of staging the Games.
Greene added that the USOC withdrew its invitation for the bid comittees to attend the USOC board meeting on April 28-29 in San Jose, California. Instead, the eight bid groups will meet later in the spring.
He said “I can sense the USOC intends for this to be a fair process. They are trying to remove, to the extent possible, the political influence that has been an issue in the past”.
