And as mayor, he will be the host of the Olympic Summer Games in 2016.
It staged the opening and closing ceremonies in the 1968 summer games plus the athletics events.
Despite lofty ambitions, Olympic host cities often have seen disappointing economic-development results from the Summer Games.
"I've been waiting for this for so long, " Mr. Waas said of the Summer Games.
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The world is still celebrating what has universally been considered a very positive London 2012 Summer Games.
The only stadium to have two summer games as it was the setting for the 1932 Olympics as well.
Maybe that's why the only Olympiad Helsinki has ever hosted were the 1952 summer games, despite its winter orientation.
Further, for the first time ever in the summer games, every country is sending at least one female contender.
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After all Swatch owned Omega which had been the traditional timekeeper of the summer games dating back to 1932.
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The host city for the 2020 Summer Games will be chosen in September.
At 45, the superstar swimmer has been training feverishly to make her sixth Olympic swim team at London's Summer Games.
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According to the report, Yahoo is sending 25 people from around the world to cover the Summer Games in London.
All you need to know about the summer games in Beijing is that swimmer Michael Phelps has won the gold medals.
But now everyone with a Twitter feed is a town crier: Social media usage has surged since the last summer games.
He had previously won a gold medal in football for the Isle of Man at the World Summer Games in Athens.
Panasonic has also renewed its partnership with the International Olympic Committee for an additional eight years through the 2016 Summer Games.
Immediately after the 1996 summer games it was restyled and renamed, Turner Field as home to the baseball team the Atlanta Braves.
Indeed, the Feb. 8 opening ceremonies were the highest rated in history for winter or summer games, according to Nielsen Media Research.
After the 1980 summer games the stadium was converted to be used for football and is home to Torpedo Moscow and Spartak Moscow.
The U.S. is taking a scientific approach to the Summer Games in lots of areas, not only what competitors wear but how they move.
It held the European Athletic Championships of that year, however, since the summer games of 2004, it has been used solely as a football ground.
Historically, roughly half of the U.S. opening ceremonies uniforms have been inspired by sportswear, including the excellent styles in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Games.
At least one will be a weightlifter: the sport has accounted for 37 of the 85 athletes expelled from the summer games since drug-testing's introduction.
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The 57-cap international joins Wales captain Craig Bellamy on the doubtful list for Wales' summer games, while West Ham defender Danny Gabbidon is a long-term absentee.
The town tries to stitch together summer games, coached by Mr. Heilig, recruiting players as young as five years old and people well into their 60s.
Announced last September just after the summer games, the new parallel event is known as the IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup and is another example of a post-Paralympic legacy.
The audience watching the summer games has grown 45% since 2001, to an average of 676, 000 households, on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC for the 2003 summer games.
Now it is up to wrestling's international federation to persuade the IOC to add the sport to the 2020 Summer Games instead of the other seven sports.
The U.S has snagged the top spot at the past three Summer Games and won 102 medals, compared with 63 for China in 2004 (Russia was second with 92 medals).
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