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SPORTS 5B
THE BATTALION Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Houston’s bid for 2012 Olympics
denied, NY and SF still in hunt
CHICAGO (AP) — New
York and San Francisco were
selected Tuesday as the U.S.
finalists to host the 2012
Summer Olympics, while
Houston and Washington,
D.C., were eliminated as con
tenders.
The U.S. Olympic
Committee’s board of directors
will pick the U.S. candidate for
the 2012 Games at a Nov. 3
meeting. Then comes the inter
national competition, where
things really get serious.
As many as a dozen cities —
including possibly Toronto,
Rome, Paris, Moscow, and Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil — are expect
ed to be in the mix. The
International Olympic
Committee will pick the host in
2005.
Charles H. Moore, a former
Olympic gold medalist who
heads the USOC’s bid evalua
tion task force, said the race was
a close, but that New York and
San Francisco made the cut
because of their “international
lure.”
“We are very confident we
will bring the games to the U.S.
in 2012,” Moore said.
In New York, the task force
chose a city that had been seen
as the sentimental favorite fol
lowing the Sept. 1 1 terrorist
attacks. The panel overlooked
the nation’s capital, which also
was a target of the attacks.
Whether New York or San
Francisco is chosen as the final
ist, the U.S. entrant might be a
long shot.
IOC members might have
some lingering resentment from
the Congressional hearings in
the Salt Lake City bribery scan
dal. Congress even grilled for
mer IOC president Juan Antonio
Samaranch after it was discov
ered that Salt Lake City organiz
ers had plied IOC members with
more than $1 million in gifts
and scholarships.
The USOC’s task force spent
hundreds of hours analyzing
each of the bids. It made two
visits to each city, with every
member scoring the individual
bids.
New York, whose bid has a
$2.7 billion Olympic budget,
still needs to build or renovate
most of its venues. There also
are questions about traffic and
transportation, though organiz
ers say the city is best equipped
to handle and move large
crowds.
All of the venues would be
accessible by either rail or
water, with organizers saying
athletes would never even have
to be on a roadway.
Organizers also tout the
city’s legacy of diversity and
immigrant history, likening it to
the Olympic movement itself.
Moore said New York
received high marks for its
strong infrastructure and securi
ty capabilities.
San Francisco’s weather,
waterfront and scenic vistas
were the strong points of its bid,
which has a budget of $2.4 bil
lion. Organizers hope to use the
Golden Gate Bridge as a signa
ture emblem, the way Sydney’s
Opera House was used during
the 2000 Summer Olympics.
“What’s not to be impressed
about San Francisco?” Moore
said.
Though it initially spread
venues from the Bay Area to
Sacramento, organizers reor
ganized their plan over the last
few months and moved several
sites. Now 92 percent of the
venues would be within 32
miles of the Olympic Village.
But that could still be too
spread out to please the IOC.
Washington’s bid had the
biggest Olympic budget at $2.8
billion. The city’s plan centered
around an Olympic Sports
Complex at the current site of
RFK Stadium on a cleaned-up
Anacostia River.
Houston had the strongest
technical bid, with most of the
venues close to each other and
90 percent already complete or
under construction. The bid had
a budget of $2.4 billion, and
organizers also promised an $87
million renovation to make the
Astrodome an elite track and
field facility.
The cities weren’t ranked
against each other, but rather
against a neutral number. The
biggest portion — 54 percent
— was based on the IOC’s cri
teria for host cities. Another 15
percent was related to the
financial stability of the bid.
The final 31 percent was some
thing Moore called “what it
takes to win.”
Aggie soccer to
host free clinic
The Texas A&M soccer team
will offer a free clinic Thursday
at the Aggie Soccer Complex at
SPORTS IN BRIEF
6 p.m. A&M head coach G.
Guerrieri will introduce the
2002 team and give a preview
of the season.
Also, the A&M coaches and
players will conduct a clinic for
youth players. There will also
be an autograph and photo
session after the clinic.
A&M opens the season Friday
when it hosts the Rice Owls at
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