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Article: Race to host Olympics: Let the PR wars begin.(World)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 28, 2001
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Bundled up against the cold, gathered in the gloom of an abandoned warehouse in one of the less salubrious districts in Paris Monday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigators were having to use their imaginations.
A French architect was trying to make them see the shabby space as an airy, futuristic glass-and-steel media center for thousands of reporters covering the 2008 summer Olympics.
Whether her cardboard model and computer-generated images were persuasive, the IOC team would not say. But the French hosts could be sure that the people vetting the cities bidding to host the 2008 Games had not run into any rabid dogs.
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