London's bid for the Olympics played up the benevolent legacy that they would leave in their wake.
When London began its bid for the Olympics in 2006, local teams simultaneously began bidding for tenant rights to the stadium once the games were over.
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Caborn has insisted that a bid for the 2012 Olympics is only feasible if it comes from London.
For now Mr Aliev's regime, which is already working on a bid for the 2020 Olympics, can assume that its opponents offer no threat.
Sandusky, who worked on London's bid for the 2012 Olympics, said the two cities' bids were different in their scale, since London's games are aimed at regenerating large swathes of East London, "an area that's been poor since the times of Dickens, " he said.
Meanwhile, London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics -- despite a rumbling row over costs that shows no sign of abating before the torch is lit and complaints that the project has ridden roughshod over the wishes of local residents and businesses -- will ultimately mean the creation of Europe's largest new urban park in 150 years.
She appears briefly as an Olympic torchbearer in the video prepared by the city of Atlanta for its bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung, received a similar pardon in 2009, having been found guilty of tax evasion, and was picked to front South Korea's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Violinist Vanessa-Mae has put her musical career on ice for a year in a bid to ski for Thailand at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
With the new deal done, the U.S. will consider whether to bid for the 2022 Winter Games or 2024 Summer Olympics.
Olympics legacy bosses are considering a bid for London to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The budget also commits "multi-million pound funding for the regeneration of Sighthill" area which has been earmarked for development as part of the city's Youth Olympics bid.
This will make it easier for him to promote South Korea's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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The city, however, lost its bid to organise the 2014 Asian Games and opted out of the race for the 2016 Olympics.
On Monday a spokeswoman for Mr Livingstone admitted Crossrail was not crucial to London's bid to stage the Olympics but the Mayor would still like to see it started as soon as possible.
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The country's bid to host the Olympics could well be its incentive to impress, said Stephen Thomas, lead on football policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers.
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