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The bidding process for the 2012 Olympics was considered one of the most hotly contested in the history of the IOC. [2] Paris was seen by some as the front-runner for much of the campaign, [3] but skillful lobbying by London's supporters and an inspirational final presentation by Sebastian Coe led to the success of its bid. [1]
The Certificate of Entitlement (COE) are classes of categories as part of a quota license for owning a vehicle in Singapore. [1] The licence is obtained from a successful winning bid in an open bid uniform price auction which grants the legal right of the holder to register, own and use a vehicle in Singapore for an initial period of 10 years.
The organising committee, which was not responsible for building permanent venues, reported spent £2.38 billion since winning the bid in 2005 and generated £2.41 billion. On 30 May 2013, it handed back to the government, Britain's Olympic committee and other beneficiaries a surplus of £30 million from the 2012 Games.
The Spanish Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Español, COE) is responsible body for Spain's participation in the Olympic Games. Members of the committee are 35 sports federations, which elect the Executive Council composed of the president and 23 members.
Kuala Lumpur had started to bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but it was not selected in 2001. Then, Kuala Lumpur decided to bid for the future Olympics considering the increasing public transport connectivity with the Mass Rapid Transit that is opened in 2017. With the change of governments since 2018, the high-speed rail was cancelled.
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But the IOC Executive Board's secrecy policy about the current bid parties list, made it unclear who was right on the destiny of the Madrid bid. To date, the only Olympic Games celebrated in the country were the 1992 Summer Olympics, which were held in Barcelona. Madrid had previously bid for the 1972, 2012, 2016, and the 2020 games.
Doha submitted its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics [85] after its hosting of the 2006 Asian Games, spending US$2.8 billion on infrastructure and venues. [86] The Doha 2016 bid won much regional support, for example from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) president [87] and the Gulf Cooperation Council.