Should London win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it will hope that someone of Mrs Blankers-Koen's prodigious talent will set the track alight.
They seem to like Chen's declaration that Taipei may support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games. (Lee's government had opposed China's bid for this year's Games.) And on July 3, Xiamen Mayor Zhu Yayan invited his Kaohsiung counterpart, Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, to visit his city on the coast of Fujian province, opposite Taiwan.
As a lifelong supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC, (Spurs), the club that yesterday lost the bid to take over the London 20912 Olympic stadium once the games have been staged, I have deliberately refrained from making an immediate comment.
Provincial leader Ephrahim Rasool said the 68, 000 stadium would be part of an inner city park and could be the 'deposit' on a future bid for the Olympic Games to be held in Cape Town.
On the day West Ham's new co-owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, stepped up their bid to occupy the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games, the pair will be desperately hoping their club will still be in the top-flight to enjoy it.
It has decided not to bid for the security contract for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Chicago was chosen to bid for the Games two years ago by the US Olympic Committee ahead of four other US cities.
This international rowing centre, complete with gym and restaurant, is partly designed to kick-start any future bid by London for the Olympic Games.
Then the Finnish representative at the International Olympic Committee resigned in the wake of a row over Salt Lake City's bid to hold the winter games.
In its Olympic and Paralympic bid in 2005, London promised to create the most accessible Games ever.
Reedie, president of the British Olympic Association and an International Olympic Committee member, revealed that London would be the favoured choice should the BOA decide to bid for the Games again.
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