Well I am getting all excited. The bid results for the 2012 Olympic Games are due out today at 12:46pm (BST) I have my fingers and toes crossed for London to get it! It would be a great honour and so very exciting to host this event. I was in Manchester for the 2000 Commonwealth Games and have seen first hand just how much of a positive impact such events have on a city. I offer nothing but my complete support for this bid and I hope that we manage to persuade the IOC members that London is the place to have this event.
Like France we have also placed 2 previous bids with Manchester as the host city, however this time we have gone one better and put London forward as the venue. France has put Paris forward twice previously and both times they have been looked over in favour of better locations and bids. Although they are suggested as favourites, I would be quite surprised if Paris has altered their bid significantly enough based on feedback of the previous two bids to win this one.
This is the bid that could just manage to get our Olympic hopefuls all motivated to make 2012 the year that England beat America and Australia at events that they tend to dominate such as swimming and track & field events!!!! J
Good luck to the London 2012 bid!!!
posted @ Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:32 AM