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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8985

7 July 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/sport
London pips Paris to post for Olympic Games 2012

Brussels, 06/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Singapore on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee finally named London as the city which will host the Olympic Games of summer 2012, beating the favourite, Paris, in the fourth round of voting. Madrid, Moscow and New York were the three other cities still in the running. Commissioner Jan Figel, who is responsible for the Sport dossier, welcomed the fact that another European city will pick up the baton from Athens: "less than a year after...

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