Article: San Jose important to San Francisco Olympic bid.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

SAN FRANCISCO _ The idea, in theory, was excellent.

This week, a United States Olympic Committee delegation has been in town, trying to choose a potential host for the 2012 Games. As a climax to the visit Monday afternoon, the visitors were whizzed up an elevator to a 51st-floor room of a downtown San Francisco skyscraper. Outside the window, there was supposed to be a spectacular view of the Golden Gate bridge.

Ooops. Fog.

"We thought we could see the bridge today," said Anne Cribbs, the Bay Area bid's leader. "We can imagine it, though."

We can also imagine a few other things. We can imagine that the San Francisco 2012 bid truly is ...

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