<p>So who do you think is going to get it?</p>
<p>Favourites are London and Paris, with Madrid a possiblity. General feeling is that New York and Moscow are big outsiders.</p>
<p>Voting takes place over the next few hours, all the bidding teams have done their final presentations this morning.</p>
<p>I desperately want London to get it, but I have a feeling it will be Paris. If it’s not London I would prefer Madrid.</p>
<p>Moscow were eliminated first, then New york, then Madrid.</p>
<p>A final vote between London and Paris has taken place, but the result won’t be annonced for another hour.</p>
<p>London won the bid. :)</p>
<p>apparently ppl in paris are jumping off the eiffel tower… :p</p>
<p>I’m so excited that London has won it!</p>
<p>Especially as we came from behind to beat favourites Paris, I was impressed with Madrid’s reaction to London winning they were cheering like they had won it, Paris on the other hand booed and the later on wouldn’t let a British reporter there give his report</p>
<p>I wanted Paris to win…shucks</p>
<p>same a s .</p>
<p>I’m kind of glad New York didn’t win. Too many people.</p>
<p>I think Paris should pull for 2024, the 100 year anniversary of the events on which the movie Chariots of Fire was based.</p>
<p>^Somehow I don’t think that’s going to be the only consideration for the IOC. Chariots of Fire was a sweet movie though.</p>
<p>I wanted NYC to win so I might actually get to see the games.</p>
<p>Paris is much cooler than London. London is modernized, Paris feels like it hasn’t changed in a long time. No big red tour buses or teenagers dressed horribly and yapping away with those harsh Cockney accents. Too bad.</p>
<p>Paris lost its chance at the 2012 Olympics when Jacques Chirac said that the English made no contribution to European cuisine. He said the only countryto make a worse contribution was Finland. Now I don’t know how many people the English have on the Olympic committee…but Finland has 2.</p>
<p>I had the chance to do security at the '96 Atlanta Games, as they used National Guardsmen. I didn’t remember that until I read this thread.</p>
<p>I agree, Diana606. Chirac’s comments were hilarious, but I can’t imagine that Scotland or Finland were too happy with him. And delegates from other countries might very well have been turned off by those remarks too. Hearing the announcement this morning really saddened me…I was in Paris last week, and the excitement and spirit there for the games was so high. “L’amour des Jeux” - “The Love of the Games” banners were everywhere. </p>
<p>Damn you, Chirac.</p>
<p>i am french but i agree with asterstar that chirac is a doosh. he is always critisizing other countries and people and then gets suprised that he doesnt get things his way. iraq is an example. us helped them in ww2 with normandy so why cant chirac thank the US? oh well. BTW bush is also a doosh.</p>
<p>zantedeschia, london has pretty much the same population as new york (around 8 million). i think paris and madrid are significantly smaller in terms of people (closer to 4 million or so though i’m too lazy to look it up).</p>
<p>aim78, funny you say that. i always thought of london as being “fossilized” and paris as more adoptable to the new. although you can’t forget the classic joni mitchell line about paris being “too old and cold and settled in its ways.” meh, nyc is cooler than the both of them.</p>
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Word on that. Definitely the downfall of Paris after that speech. </p>
<p>I’d wanted NYC, then Paris. Was disappointed, but London’s good as well. It’s rather silly, I think, that I liked all 5 cities and wouldn’t mind whichever got it.</p>