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There are many meetings arranged in some of the major cities in countries that participate in Olympics to decide which country will get the chance to hold the Olympics. The sessions to decide the host of 2008 Olympic games were held in Moscow. Many cities were in the list for being selected as host for Olympic games 2008. The host selection process had the names of Toronto, Istanbul, Paris, Osaka and many others as well. All these cities have to have arrangements to hold any international event of sports. It was decided and declared that the 2008 Olympics are going to be held in Beijing, the capital city of China. China is ideal for hosting the Olympics because there are all kinds of facilities for transportation and that is a big reqirment for the Olympics. There is a major voting process to select the host for the Olympics Beijing was in one of the top positions during coting and finally won over Osaka by only six votes.

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The new two-phase host city election procedure, began in December 1999. In this new procedure, cities must pass an initial selection phase during which requirements are examined by a team of experts. There were 10 applicant cities for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008, Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Paris, Seville, Toronto. Once these cities were approved by the Executive Board the cities became the Candidates that would go into the full bid process. The five Candidate Cities for 2008 accepted Osaka, Paris, Toronto, Beijing, Istanbul. The Evaluation Commission inspects the sites and submits a written report on all the cities. On 13 July 2001 in Moscow, Beijing was elected the Host City for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008.

Beijing was, from the start, the clear winner of the 2008 Olympic host city selection process for many reason one reason is beijing high security as well as the controlling effect of the Chinese government

The Two-Phase Election Process: To pick a city to host the Olympic Games is quite an interesting process. This is a brief summary of how each city is chosen to host the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) selects the city to host the winter or summer Olympics. This selection is made seven years before those Olympics are to be held. This is so the city chosen can have time to prepare for the daunting task of hosting the Olympic Games. There are 203 National Olympic Committees (NOCs). Which represent nations, commonwealths, geographical areas, protectorates, and territories. The city that wishes to host the Olympics must submit a formal proposal to its NOC. The IOC places it on a list with other applicant cities. Many meetings of the IOC are held to determine the city, which is to hold the Olympics. The possible cities are examined to see if they would be a good city to host the Olympics. The decision is eventually made based on who would be the best city to host them that year. The decision is made by an election.

On July 13,2001, Beijing was elected the host for the summer Olympics 2008. Out of the five cities, Toronto, Paris, Istanbul, Osaka, and Beijing, Beijing won. These cities have been campaigning for years, when voting only takes a day. The host city will have to spend about 10 billion dollars on the Olympic Games. The process of picking the host city for the Olympics starts out with 10 cities submitting entry’s to be able to be the host city. Half of the cities entries were rejected and the other half competed for the spot. In the first round of voting, with only 6 votes Osaka was eliminated. In the second round, Beijing got so many votes there was no need for any more “voting” rounds.



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