International Olympic evaluation for 2012 Summer Olympics
The preliminary evaluations of the possible host cities was released. It weighs in at 126 pages and sums up the committee's overview of the bids from Paris, London, New York, Madrid and Moscow.
Things aren't looking too good for the New York 2012 Olympic Committee.
The report looks at each city and runs through the following standard categories:
- Travel times
- Accommodation
- Tax
- Technology
- Security
- Natural disasters
- Olympic program
- Test events
- Public opinion
- Letters of concern
- Torch relay
- Maps
I was amazed at the detail that each of the cities received when being considered for the Summer 2012 Olympics. The full Summer 2012 Olympic Report is here.
The host cities are spinning the report the best they can, but there is no doubt that Paris and London's chances increased with this report. New York and Madrid stayed the same, while Moscow was basically put out of the running.
The IOC report included no negatives for Paris, only a slight concern about venues being built in time for London and hotels being an hour away in Madrid.
For NYC 2012 the news had to be depressing as the report specifically mentions there are no guarantees an Olympic stadium would be built.
Moscow was taken to task for not providing enough detail.
There were two other interesting notes:
The IOC also commissioned its own public opinion survey, and Madrid came out on top with a 91 percent approval rate in the city and 85 percent nationwide. Paris was next (85 percent-79 percent), followed by Moscow (77 percent-76 percent), London (68 percent-70 percent) and New York (59 percent-54 percent).
Moscow last staged the Summer Games in 1980, the United States in 1996 (Atlanta) and Spain in 1992 (Barcelona). Paris, meanwhile, hasn't held the Olympics since 1924, and London since 1948.
