Posted on 12 November 2009.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo officials say they have not been informed of city governor Shintaro Ishihara’s desire to bid for the 2020 Olympics.
Tokyo lost out to Rio de Janeiro in last month’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote to decide the hosts for the 2016 Games, but Ishihara is reportedly keen for another shot.
“There’s been no formal announcement,” the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s international affairs officer Noriko Hachiya told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Posted on 10 November 2009.
The International Rugby Board has confirmed that four Unions from three continents have expressed a formal interest to host the seventh Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2014.
Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Samoa and USA all submitted their interest to host the premier 15-a-side tournament for the first time by the deadline on October 30.
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Posted on 06 November 2009.
The International Rugby Board has confirmed that eight Unions have expressed a formal interest to host Rugby World Cup Sevens 2013.
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Russia, Scotland and USA all submitted their interest to tender for the global showcase tournament by the deadline on October 30.
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Posted on 28 October 2009.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The World Cup would benefit the United States by at least $5 billion if the country is chosen to host the 2018 or 2022 global soccer tournament, the U.S. bid committee said on Tuesday.
The U.S. bid group, which called the estimate “conservative,” also estimated that between 65,000 and 100,000 total new jobs would be created in the various host cities during preparation and operation of the tournament.
“The numbers delivered by this study fully support our initial estimations,” David Downs, USA Bid Committee executive director, said in a statement. The USA Bid Committee paid for the study by a unit of AECOM Technology Corp.
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Posted on 23 October 2009.
Australia’s place in Asia can help it host a soccer World Cup that will reap the sport more money than the other nations vying for the honour can deliver.
That is the argument mounted by Football Federation Australia (FFA) chairman Frank Lowy, who is confident Australia will win the right to host the coveted event in either 2018 or 2022.
Frank Lowy, Football Federation Australia chairman, stated that more money would come to the sport from holding the process in Asia-Pacific than from anywhere.
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Posted on 23 October 2009.
TOKYO (Reuters) – The mayor of Hiroshima says 70 percent of the city’s citizens support the proposal to bid for the 2020 Olympics along with Nagasaki, Japanese media reported on Thursday.
The only cities to have suffered nuclear attacks announced they were considering a bid earlier this month following Tokyo’s defeat in the race to stage the 2016 Games.
“We plan to examine the possibility with the utmost care in order to reach a conclusion as many people as possible will agree with,” Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said.
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Posted on 19 October 2009.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Three cities have launched bids to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee confirmed on Friday.
Germany’s Munich, host of the 1972 Summer Olympics, South Korea’s Pyeongchang, who lost out to Vancouver and Sochi for the right to host the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games, and France’s Annecy are the candidate cities, the IOC said.
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Posted on 16 October 2009.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese city of Harbin has given up on its plan to bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics after the central government said it was “premature”, local officials said on Wednesday.
The application by the northern metropolis was declined by China’s General Administration of Sport (GAS) late last month, an official in the city’s sports bureau said.
“GAS suggested Harbin not launch the bid for the 2018 Winter Games because there was very little chance of success,” Li Chunlei, told Reuters by telephone.
“The timing is premature. Beijing just hosted a Summer Olympics last year.”
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Posted on 09 October 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – The World Cup would benefit England by at least $5 billion if the country was chosen to host the 2018 tournament, bid chairman Andy Anson said on Thursday.
“Every region will benefit if the World Cup came to England in 2018,” he told a Leaders in Football conference at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium.
“In fact, an initial independent financial study indicates that an England 2018 World Cup will see five billion pounds ($8.04 billion) spent during the tournament benefiting England’s economy by 3.2 billion pounds.
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Posted on 06 October 2009.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The decision to elect Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Olympics was not driven by money, otherwise the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have picked Chicago, IOC chief Jacques Rogge said on Monday.
“It is clear that the IOC in its choice has not chosen for the big money,” Rogge said, speaking at the end of the IOC Congress in the Danish capital.
Rio triumphed over Madrid in the final round of voting on Friday after Chicago were surprisingly eliminated in the first round and Tokyo in the second.
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