It was 1987 and South Korea was preparing to host the Olympic Games in Seoul.
London is now ready to host the Olympic Games, a panel of inspectors has been told.
The devastation comes as China is preparing to host the Olympic Games, which begin in Beijing on Aug. 8.
Any lingering hopes that Manchester could one day host the Olympic Games have been dismissed by Sports Minister Richard Caborn.
Batista was the most vocal Brazilian businessman in lobbying the Olympic Committee to choose Rio de Janeiro to host the Olympic games.
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Today, people who don't even know me gave me the greatest gift that a president could have: to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Obama's campaign has accused Romney of shifting positions on foreign policy matters and mishandling a trip to England, Israel and Poland this summer when he publicly questioned London's preparedness to host the Olympic Games and cited cultural differences as a reason for economic disparities between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympic Games and the reinstated Russian Grand Prix in 2014, and Russia will host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, with many hotel chains around the country investing in anticipation.
As Beijing prepares to host the summer Olympic Games in less than three months, officials were quick to report that the city's dozens of Olympic venues were built to withstand earthquakes and that none had suffered damage.
And as mayor, he will be the host of the Olympic Summer Games in 2016.
Rio de Janeiro also will stage many of the key matches when Brazil hosts the World Cup next year, and it will be the host city for the Olympic Games in 2016.
The huge security operation comes as London prepares to host the 2012 Olympic Games, which open in late July.
And in a year when Australia is drawing attention to itself as host of the Olympic games, stirring up a racial storm would not seem wise.
Should London win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it will hope that someone of Mrs Blankers-Koen's prodigious talent will set the track alight.
They seem to like Chen's declaration that Taipei may support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Lee's government had opposed China's bid for this year's Games.) And on July 3, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, to visit his city on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan.
The controversy unfolds at a delicate time for Spain: Madrid is among the finalist to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, and Spanish athletes and fans have been criticized and sanctioned for actions deemed racially insensitive.
There is of course a tremendous amount of effort that goes into the marketing of a city to be a true contender for the Olympic games or to host the world EXPO.
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With a journey time of about seven minutes, the train service means London's Olympic Park will be more quickly accessed from the host city than has been the case in any previous Olympic Games, LOCOG officials say.
As the home to the Weymouth and Portland British National Sailing Academy it was the obvious choice to host all sailing events during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Considering that Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and recalling the US experience in organizing events of this magnitude and the interest of the US Government in sharing this experience with Brazil, the leaders welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Major Global Sporting Events, aimed at intensifying bilateral cooperation, particularly on infrastructure, safety, and security.
In Athens, host of the 2004 Games, many Olympic venues have been abandoned.
That's since changed, with the pacification of dozens of Rio's "favela" hillside slums, the discovery of offshore oil deposits that have flooded the city with petrodollars and Rio's role as host for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
The cost of running a modern Olympic games represents a staggering burden to the host city, and endorsement contracts are one of the best ways to offset that cost.
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It is the only city in the eastern region to be invited to host a large public screen by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
While it is true that 92% of games revenues goes to the host and national olympic committees and some of this money is used to support athletes, this is not provided to all athletes (or even all medal-winning athletes) and is generally less than the true financial needs of the athlete.
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The Isle of Man will host the Olympic torch on 2 June next year as it journeys across the British Isles in the run-up to the Games in London.
Despite lofty ambitions, Olympic host cities often have seen disappointing economic-development results from the Summer Games.
The official victory parade for Scotland's Olympic heroes will be held on Friday 14 September in Glasgow, the host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
It would be like a double Fifa World Cup and Olympics because, apart from the main venue for the Games, Kenya would have to build at least six world-class stadiums to host the Olympic football matches alone.
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