After Los Angeles had been elected unopposed as the host city for the 1984 Olympics everything changed.
Next year's awards will be held in Berlin, with Valetta in Malta confirmed as the host city for the 2012 event.
Carwyn Jones AM later pointed out that Cardiff had been announced as the host city for the Ashes on 22 September 2011.
Smiley said he picked New Orleans as the 2008 host city to highlight the continued plight of its residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
When London was announced as the 2012 Olympic host city, it meant one staple of the UK summer would have to take temporary break: the world-famous Glastonbury contemporary arts festival in Somerset.
The 3 February NFL championship marks the tenth time the Super Bowl will be played in New Orleans, equalling it with Miami as the most frequent host city.
Flanker Sam Warburton and backs Tom Shanklin and Tom James will be available for the Blues as they host Leinster at the Cardiff City Stadium on Sunday.
City council leader Gordon Matheson said Glasgow's confirmation as host city marked "the first step in positioning the city as the global home of street dance over the next three years".
Philadelphia Magazine has named him the City's best talk show host, as well as one of the City's most powerful citizens.
The Derry branch of Comhaltas has appealed against the decision of the organisation's Ulster Council not to put the city forward as host for the 2013 Fleadh.
This weekend, the new car also will be prominently displayed at an ESPN party in the host city, Glaser said, as well as at a GQ party in the French Quarter.
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Non-dynastic autocratic regimes also follow a similar decision-making process, says Bueno de Mesquita, and the vote on which city will host major sports events such as the Olympics have a similar dynamic.
Changes to Olympic sports are made by the International Olympics Committee (IOC), usually seven years in advance, at the same time as the Games are awarded to a host city.
Matalin says one obvious goal is to get New Orleans back in the regular rotation as a Super Bowl host, but the larger goal is to help the city's future by demonstrating how successfully it can host one of the biggest single events in the sports world.
That's since changed, with the pacification of dozens of Rio's "favela" hillside slums, the discovery of offshore oil deposits that have flooded the city with petrodollars and Rio's role as host for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
Then word leaked that the studio was already building Jimmy Fallon a New York City-based set for him to use as the new host next year.
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The council said it may not host political conferences in future as it aims to attract events in areas the city is also targeting for investment.
It won the right to host the Olympics by presenting itself as a uniquely global, rather than quintessentially British, city.
"It will mark the start of a fantastic year for our city as we tell our new story to the world and prepare to host an exciting range of cultural events throughout the year, " he said.
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Organisers say the city is an apt host as half the global crop comes from varieties bred at the James Hutton Institute on the outskirts of Dundee.
Newcastle had been named as a potential host city, and officials from Fifa visited St James' Park in the summer.
The venue will be well-positioned to host other events, such as concerts and college sports like the NCAA basketball tournament, city officials said.
In 1984, he bought Snowbasin Resort, less than an hour's drive northeast of Salt Lake City, and built it into another top skiing destination that served as the host for downhill skiing races in the 2002 Olympics.
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Belfast looks likely to host two St Patrick's Day parades as rival groups bid for funding from the city council.
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But the biggest story this week in the Big Easy (as New Orleans is nicknamed), as happens every year, is the remarkable revenue the week-long Super Bowl celebration brings in to the host city, the television networks broadcasting the game, and the National Football League itself.
Indeed, based on this state report regarding the host site that did not perform as well as peer schools and will ultimately be closed by New York City, it appears that a host of issues having nothing to do with School of One may be to blame for the first-year outcomes.
Even after stepping down as mayor (and into a radio host chair and onto the lecture circuit), he remains a towering figure in city history.
In the late 1990s, charges surfaced that members of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee had bribed International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials to choose their city as host.
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As Beijing prepares to host the summer Olympic Games in less than three months, officials were quick to report that the city's dozens of Olympic venues were built to withstand earthquakes and that none had suffered damage.
Whatever the cause the result was me chasing drug smugglers on the Mexican border, fighting wild fire in northern California, and, along with a host of other unusual jobs, working as a helicopter medic in the wee hours of the morning in Kansas City.
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