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[Guardian]

I hope that Izmir will do well in hosting the 2005 Summer Universiade.

[Guardian]

Now that the 2005 Summer Universiade is about to officially get underway, I'm sure those from Bangkok are going to see how it is operated throughout the Games.

[baron-pierreIV]

Here's also another recap on WUG stuff...

"World University Games

Montreal has officially declined to bid for the 2011 World University games. Canada is putting forward Edmonton as its 2011 Candidate.
        Shenzen, China announced in January of this year that it is a very serious candidate for the games.

       Taipei has previously made brief  mentions of interest, most recently at the 2005 Universiade in August.

       Early on, Germany talked of putting forward Leipzig as a candidate and has talked to all of the cities that were candidates for the 2012 Olympic games, and Munich.

       Utrecht, Holland has been briefly mentioned, but these suggestions seem to have developed into serious         consideration.

       Bristol, England has been mentioned in passing and Belfast, Northern Ireland has put forth the idea of going for the 2011 or 2013 Universiade.

       2007 Host: Bangkok, Thailand

       Winter World University Games

      Erzurum Turkey, which lost to Harbin for the 2009 University Games, has decided to run for the 2011 Winter Universiade. Calgary is a possible nominee from Canada according to the         Edmonton Sun.  World Police and Fire Games City sources in Fairfax, Virginia are looking at the opportunity for Fairfax County to bid for the World Police and Fire Games in 2013.

World Transplant Games -- Gold Coast , Australia seems to be the main city interested in hosting the 2009 World Transplant Games.

       2007 Host: Turin, Italy

       2009 Host: Harbin, China

Source:  Guardian's Int'l Games Archives

[Quintana]

Pui from HK, on Feb. 26 2006,15:51, said:

Amsterdam has bid for 1992 Olympic but they didn't get much support from the citizens.

But if Amsterdam bid again I'll sure support it... coz this city is so lovely!

The Dutch in general and the people of Amsterdam in particular are real nimby's. It is almost impossible to organise something in that place without problems.
For instance, they had a lot of problems organising the Amsterdam Marathon a few years ago. Shop owners downtown were complaining about their accessibility. In the end they had to build several temporary bridges over the roads. As a result the biggest part of the marathon now takes place outside the city. Not a real problem because the people of Amsterdam don't seem to be interested in it anyway. There are many more examples where that came from but I won't bore you with them.

It is too bad, Amsterdam is the only Dutch city that might have a very slim chance to ever host the olympics again. When the attitude of the people over there isn't going to change that is never going to happen though.

[Hachiko]

The USA should seriously consider this as well. LA would be a suitable place for a Summer Universiade, with many of the events at the Home Depot Center. :wwww:

[Apple]

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Government officials in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada are re-grouping after their loss in the race to land the 2010 Commonwealth Games and are hinting at a possible attempt to bid for the 2009 World University Games.

Hamilton Mayor Larry Di Ianni met with Peter George, President of McMaster University's last month to discuss possible University games options.

Most of the motivation for the bid is to attempt to tap into funding that the government had said it would provide, if Hamilton won the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Hamilton officials are hoping that money may still be available, and that they might be able to get some, whether they get a major sport event or not.

Government officials are citing the precedent of Toronto, which lost the 2008 Olympic bid, but was given $1.5 billion (cdn) anyway for a waterfront development project.

Hamilton to look at University Games bid?

A World University Games would be perfect for Hamilton since Hamilton 2010 Commonwealth Games bid was centred on McMaster University.

Plus Hamilton is pretty thirsty to host any major sporting event and won't stop till they win something big.

[Guardian]

I guess that the bids for the 2009 Summer or Winter Universiade is still in the air.

[Guardian]

I see, Ripley. Too bad for Sheffield then. I hope it has fully recovered from that experience.

As for the USA, it will be interesting if it will bid for the 2009 Summer Universiade. Like you said, it has not hosted it since Buffalo, NY, 1993 and it has been the only one so far, for a nation that has hosted the most Summer Olympics.

[hektor]

Official web site of Harbin 2009

Nice pictures of the competition venues

And food for thought about a future Chinese Olympic bid...

[wamel042]

Too bad.....but you're right about Amsterdam. Unfortunately it is the only dutch city, with international "fame" so changes of Amsterdam organising any major sport events in the near future are very slim.....