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The New York City 2012 Olympic bid was one of the five short-listed bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics, ultimately won by London. New York City's Olympic bid was managed by a private non-profit organization, NYC 2012, founded by Daniel L. Doctoroff, then the managing director of Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm. [1]
The Olympic Stadium project on the West Side was estimated to cost $2.2 billion, with $300 million provided by New York City and an additional $300 million from New York State. If New York had won the bid, Citi Field would have been expanded to Olympic events while the Mets would have played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for the 2012 season ...
Nine cities submitting bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics were recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Committee shortlisted five of them—London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, and Paris—from which London eventually prevailed; thus becoming the first city to host the Olympic Games for a third time. [1]
Since the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, which successfully appropriated the name of the Ancient Greek Olympics to create a modern sporting event, interested cities have rivaled for selection as host of the Summer or Winter Olympic Games. 51 different cities have been chosen to host the modern Olympics: three in ...
Charity non-profits face many of the same challenges of corporate governance which face large, publicly traded corporations. Fundamentally, the challenges arise from the "agency problem" - the fact that the management which controls the charity is necessarily different from the people who the charity is designed to benefit. In a non-profit ...
The stadium proved highly controversial because it would have been a major construction project requiring public financing.Though many of its opponents supported the larger West Side development program, they questioned the economic benefit of a stadium that would have spent much of its time unused, as well as the general premise of subsidizing a football team that generates hundreds of ...
Panathinaiko Stadium hosted the athletics events for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2004, it was the finish line for the athletics marathon events. Olympic Stadium in Sydney hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic athletic events. Olympic Stadium in London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympic athletic events.
This category contains articles about sports venues in New York City.All of the venues in Category:sports venues in Long Island (which covers Nassau and Suffolk Counties) and some of the venues in Category:sports venues in New York (state) (which covers the rest of New York State), Category:sports venues in Connecticut and Category:sports venues in New Jersey are also in the New York ...