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universalsports.com - 2/10/2009
Bids for 2016 Games entering home stretch
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Four cities bidding to host the 2016 Olympics will present their vision for the Games to the International Olympic Committee by Thursday as they enter the final stretch of their two-year campaign.
Looking Ahead to 2016
offthebaseline.com - 2/12/2009
Looking Ahead to 2016
— offthebaseline.com — Host bids for the 2016 Olympics are due today, with Chicago as the reported front-runner. Olympic insiders... are punting that Chicago’s pretty much a lock, saying that President Obama will “need only show up for the IOC vote in Copenhagen in October and Chicago will sweep aside rivals ... (more) Looking Ahead to 2016

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Chicago 2016 Olympic Tennis
offthebaseline.com - 2/13/2009
Chicago 2016 Olympic Tennis
— offthebaseline.com — As I posted yesterday, the bid books for the The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the... Games of the XXXI Olympiad, were due today. The Candidature File, or “bid book” as it is commonly known, is the formal response to 227 questions posed to bid cities in contention to host ... (more) Chicago 2016 Olympic Tennis

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universalsports.com - 2/11/2009
It's in the books: Rio, Madrid submit for 2016
— universalsports.com — Madrid and Rio de Janeiro organizers submitted their official bid books Wednesday for the 2016 Olympics, a... day ahead of the deadline. (more) It's in the books: Rio, Madrid submit for 2016

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