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[NYCD 2012]

O Yay ! Ooodles & Oodles of info .

[thatsnotmypuppy]

OK - looks like we cant get this one pasted to the top of this forum - so here is an update!

We have added about 17 more chapters from the Paris 2008 bid books, the NYC 2012 revised bid document - showing the second planned stadium after the Manhattan one went by the wayside. Finally and most excitely - by popular demand - the Nagoya 1988 Bid Executive Summary!

Thanks to cfmJeremie and amorincognito for their submissions!

Bid Library

[Tanaka_Ray]

thatsnotmypuppy, on Sep 13 2007, 06:57 AM, said:

OK - looks like we cant get this one pasted to the top of this forum - so here is an update!

We have added about 17 more chapters from the Paris 2008 bid books, the NYC 2012 revised bid document - showing the second planned stadium after the Manhattan one went by the wayside. Finally and most excitely - by popular demand - the Nagoya 1988 Bid Executive Summary!

Thanks to cfmJeremie and amorincognito for their submissions!

Bid Library

woaaaaaaaaa, thatsnotmypuppy thank you for Nagoya 1988 bid book hontoni arigatou gozaimasu.... now i'm waiting for seoul 1988 bid book

[NYCD 2012]

Interesting .. it say Melbourne & Athens were bidding for '88 .

[Guardian]

If I was correct, 1988 was the 200th anniversary of Australia's founding, right? I remembered hearing the "Happy Birthday to Australia chant" at the Calgary 1988 opening ceremony. At the time, I didn't know why the crowd did that, after the team entered McMahon Stadium.

[thatsnotmypuppy]

Yep - 1988 was the Bicentenary of the first fleet arriving in Sydney. Australia had been discovered numerous times before - but they were the first to have a sustained presence here.

Both Sydney and Melbourne proposed staging the Games in 1988, Melbourne got the AOC nomination, but then after the 1980 debacle (though Australia did attend the Moscow Games without Governmental support) the bid was scrapped.

A few IOC members I have had contact with have told me that an Australian bid may in fact have won the 1988 Games as neither Nagoya or Seoul impressed them at the time. That would have been an interesting Olympiad!

[baron-pierreIV]

thatsnotmypuppy, on Sep 14 2007, 04:01 AM, said:

Yep - 1988 was the Bicentenary of the first fleet arriving in Sydney. Australia had been discovered numerous times before - but they were the first to have a sustained presence here.

Both Sydney and Melbourne proposed staging the Games in 1988, Melbourne got the AOC nomination, but then after the 1980 debacle (though Australia did attend the Moscow Games without Governmental support) the bid was scrapped.

A few IOC members I have had contact with have told me that an Australian bid may in fact have won the 1988 Games as neither Nagoya or Seoul impressed them at the time. That would have been an interesting Olympiad!

Funny, so in either case, 1984-1988 would still have been Pacific-set Olympiads. Interesting. Yeah, Seoul was really a soul-less Olympics.

[thatsnotmypuppy]

Well, Athens also bid for 1988 - but there candidacy was a little different. The Greeks proposed (after the Munich/Montreal/Moscow trifecta) that they wanted the Games back for good - so their bid was for a permanent hosting of the Games. Obviously the IOC would never agree unless they have no willing bidders and no previous host will step up - thus, never!

[GBModerator]

Are you interested in posting mini bid books - especially those that didn't get short-listed? You might already have them but I can contribute just about all of them from 2008 forward.

[cfm Jeremie]

GBModerator, on Sep 14 2007, 06:29 PM, said:

Are you interested in posting mini bid books - especially those that didn't get short-listed? You might already have them but I can contribute just about all of them from 2008 forward.

For 2008 we are missing Osaka and Toronto that I haven't scanned yet so if you already have them on pdf we would definitely be interested.
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