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I think sercurity help the bid a bit but hosting the IOC session back in 2005 was a major factor in Singapore win , I must say .

I'll post pictures from the news tomorrow as well as scan from the newspaper ! Proud to be a Singaporean ! I'll def get tickets !

Hahas good to see Singapore won ! I

Hi kllee , nice to see another Singaporean here ! Great to have won the bid !

Hi kllee , nice to see another Singaporean here ! Great to have won the bid !

Ahahas , I would choose Singapore of course ! Tomorrow , there will be a celebration at the Padang regardless of the result in the heart of the city , where the results will be telecast live ! Also , ChannelNewAsia , a Singapore News Channel will also telecast the announcement live across the country. ChannelNewAsia is also telecast to some Asian Countries as well. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/yog

Well Singapore's biggest venue is 27 000 . And that is the floating stadia.

No surprise , there. Beijing is in North East Asia not south. Well he had failed to mention Athens , Turin , London & Sochi are all in Europe , we can fight fire with fire.

Do you even know what it means , I doubt it.

I love that quote . Its Russia's 3rd bid in all forms of olympics in less than 5 Years ! That averages about 1 bid every 20 months !

Still how much of these events are from the last 5 years ?

And has Moscow has the experience ? The Moscow Olympics was almost three decades ago. The WYG was a decade ago. Then Athens could have said they experience from hosting the 1896 games ! You assue votes from their slavic neighbours Ukraine and Belarus just like in Eurovision.

I have lived in Singapore for all my life not once have I heard of a prostitute offering sex on Orchard Road.

Please get your facts right . First of all, the chewing gum problem isn't as big as you portray it as. Chewing gum can be chewed as long as you dispose of it properly. In fact, customs don't even bother to confiscate gum. I always bring chewing gum home when I go on vacation and I haven't had a problem. Singapore cuisine is almost similar to Malaysian cuisine. " where the pricing is not fixed and you are expected to bargain." . I'll have you know that bargaining is found only at the local WET MARKETS and a few other shopping streets. Next of all, Singapore does not have pagodas next to high rises. The only place where you'll find pagodas are in Chinatown or a Park. "both places I was offered prostitutes by a pimp walking in the very center of the city." Do you even know where is central Singapore ? The only place where you'll find these people are in the red light districts of Joo Chiat and Geylang which is in the East part of the island.

Sorry , that quto wasn't from Xu Wen Ting ! I forgot to delete his name when posting .

Whatever happened to respecting rival bids ... ?

Hi Jose , welcome to gamesbid , I am guessing you're Singaporean as well ? I agree . There is definatly lots of support here ! Did you see those logos on channel 5 ? I think Singapore can offer just as much culture as Moscow. We're multi-racial country after all. Like the IOC said , they wanted bids from smaller countries .

Singapore , all the way no doubt. The only thing that kept Singapore behind Moscow was the games village now thats its sore out , we have a better chance of winning def !

Good to see you post again , Tanaka . I am hoping Singapore can ge t a medal in Table Tennis though the competion will be tough. We got 4th in Athens .

I guessing these things will be involved in the opening , *Lion Dances *Red , lots of it *Mo li hua , China's Nation flower - If some of you remembered in Athens there was this Chinese girl with a lantern , she sang about Mo li hua. *China's Rich History is bound to play a role as well

I like the aquatics area of the water cube. However the diving area look like a bunch of industrial chimmies or tube

Nope , not at all. It was built to expand the airport and to compete with other airport in region like Hong Kong & Bangkok. Still its a boost for the bid & the transport network.

The New Terminal 3 of the Singapore Changi Airport opened today. It was planned about 9 years ago. I must say this new terminal is awsome ! I had a classmate whose dad was part of design team. SINGAPORE - Singapore opened Wednesday a new state-of-the-art airport terminal, with features including an indoor garden and waterfalls, in a bid to strengthen the city-state's status as a regional air hub. Changi Airport Terminal 3, built at a cost of 1.75 billion Singapore dollars (US$1.22 billion; �831 million), will expand the airport's annual capacity by 22 million to 70 million passengers a year. Terminal 3 started operations with its first arrival from San Francisco and first departure to London, both on Singapore Airlines. Arriving passengers were greeted with a traditional lion dance performance and adorned with orchid garlands. The seven-story terminal has 28 aerobridge gates _ eight of which are designed to handle a new generation of large, double-decker passenger jets like the Airbus A380. A vertical garden of climbing plants and four waterfalls spans 300 meters (984 feet) inside the main building, which also features a roof with over 900 skylights and reflector panels that automatically allow an optimum amount of natural light while keeping out the tropical heat. As a regional air transportation hub, Singapore's Changi Airport faces competition from neighbors such as Thailand and Malaysia. Pictures at http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=70216

About Shanghai stadium , it was completed more than 10 years ago in 1997 when Shanghai hosted the East Asian Games.

I agree. Beijing officals have been trying to limit the number of private cats on the roads and moving big factories colonies away to other cities.