Paris’ bid book for the 2008 Summer Games is being turned over to the International Olympic Committee Tuesday by Noel de Saint-Pulgent, the Director General of the “Groupement d’interet public” (GIP) which heads the French candidacy.
The bid book is in French and English, has 578 pages, three volumes, 18 themes and took two years to complete.
According to the bid book, travel times for the athletes between the Olympic village and the sport locations will be short because 56 per cent of the athletes will be housed less than five minutes from the Olympic centres. The average length of travel time between the village and the sites will be 12 minutes.
The bid book also talks about a “high environmental quality” rating required for each construction project. The Olympic vehicles will be environmentally sound, using aquazole, QNV, electricity.
Bio food will be served in the Olympic village restaurant, and the water in the Olympic swimming pool will be heated with thermal solar energy.
Paris plans to give the temporary equipment used for the Games to the “developing countries National Olympic Committees, in the frame of an Olympic solidarity program decided in common with the IOC” says the bid book.
