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Vancouver’s A “Front-Runner”, New York’s “A Mess”

In an interview with the Toronto Star, International Olympic Member Dick Pound of Canada made some colourful comments about the 2010 Olympic Winter bid and the U.S. candidate for the 2012 Summer Games.

Pound, who last year lost to Jacques Rogge in the race for president of the International Olympic Committee, said the recent announcement that the B.C. and federal governments will give $620 million for sports facilities if Vancouver wins its bid for the 2010 Games “provides a level of certainty other bids may not be able to match”.

He said that most IOC members haven’t begun to think of the 2010 vote, which take place July 2, 2003, but he thinks Vancouver is definitely a front-runner.

As for the United States city to be selected from New York, Houston, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco as the U.S. candidate for the 2012 Summer Games, Pound told The Star, “if you want to feel good domestically (in the U.S.) fine. But it will never, ever, ever win (an IOC vote). It’s a mess. It’s not possible to hold something of that nature in New York”.

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