However, he condemned the club's decision to bid for the Olympic Stadium.
West Ham tentatively won the bid for the Olympic stadium, but had to break ongoing plans due to the financial crisis, and legal challenges from its rival teams.
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Provincial leader Ephrahim Rasool said the 68, 000 stadium would be part of an inner city park and could be the 'deposit' on a future bid for the Olympic Games to be held in Cape Town.
Here is a look at the official Olympic Bid film for the Stockholm Olympic Games (see if you can spot my dog Zorro the black flat coat with the boat on his nose) as well as the films from several other cities.
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The governor of Tokyo has apologised for comments he made about rival Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Escadaria Selaron has been designated a city landmark and featured in the video promoting Rio de Janeiro's successful bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Heavy snow showers made conditions more difficult for the favored later starters and Norwegian legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen failed in his bid for a 10th Olympic medal.
This international rowing centre, complete with gym and restaurant, is partly designed to kick-start any future bid by London for the Olympic Games.
It's been so successful that it was asked to contribute images for the Olympic bid.
Often at odds in the past, the city, state and federal governments united for the Olympic bid.
Last month, they held an event on the White House lawn to help rally support for the Olympic bid.
She sees the Commonwealth Games - and possibly another Asian Games too - as run-ups to a full-scale Olympic bid, for which 2016 is the earliest date possible.
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It has decided not to bid for the security contract for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Chicago was chosen to bid for the Games two years ago by the US Olympic Committee ahead of four other US cities.
In makes perfect sense, then, for Verocom to spearhead squash's Olympic bid.
The Golden Bear was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for golf as an Olympic sport, and in making his bid he shrewdly teamed with Annika Sorenstam, the former longtime women's world No. 1 (and a European to boot, adding international appeal).
Former British Olympic hockey player David Luckes, who helped design the original bid for the London 2012 Games, received an MBE.
Tony Blair has voiced his support, but not as loudly as France's president, Jacques Chirac, who likes to wander into Olympic press conferences and do a little publicity for the Paris bid.
She appears briefly as an Olympic torchbearer in the video prepared by the city of Atlanta for its bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The report from the Youth Olympics working group, headed by German Olympic silver medallist and world champion fencer Claudia Bokel, praised Glasgow's bid for its use of existing venues and for drawing on the experience of both the Commonwealth Games and last year's Olympic Games in London.
Reedie, president of the British Olympic Association and an International Olympic Committee member, revealed that London would be the favoured choice should the BOA decide to bid for the Games again.
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