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Millions of pounds have been spent and hours of presentations made, but it all came down to the 117th sitting of the Internation Olympic Committee in Singapore. With thin the first round Moscow, a city that dreamed far ahead of their means was knocked out, then New York's dreams crashed, in the third round of voting Madrid was knocked out. A tense hour was spent with Paris and London battling it out for votes. The Olypic president came forward and was presented with a sealed envelope holding the results, by a 12 year old female sailor.
The scene thousands of miles away in France and London were tense, but as they rain in Paris begain the president, a French man himself, announced that London had won the nid to hold the olympics, the mood in france was one of disbelief and of disappointment. In London's Trafalgar Square, commemorating a battle that the British had won against the french and Napoleon, the scene was altogether different.
A party that had begun in the morning, which had come to pin drop silence, erupted in screams of delight an jubilance. Ambassadors unable to make the journey to Singapore and who had been entertaining the crowds jumped up and down and tears could be found on many faces as champagne bottles were passed around the crowd. The party is expected to last well into the early hours of the morning, come rain or shine.
The biuilding work for the Olympic village in the Lee Valley area of Stratford London is set to begin within 24 hours and was going to be built irrespective of the bid winning or not. But it does give a deadline for infrastructural improvements to all of Londons Transport system.
The scene thousands of miles away in France and London were tense, but as they rain in Paris begain the president, a French man himself, announced that London had won the nid to hold the olympics, the mood in france was one of disbelief and of disappointment. In London's Trafalgar Square, commemorating a battle that the British had won against the french and Napoleon, the scene was altogether different.
A party that had begun in the morning, which had come to pin drop silence, erupted in screams of delight an jubilance. Ambassadors unable to make the journey to Singapore and who had been entertaining the crowds jumped up and down and tears could be found on many faces as champagne bottles were passed around the crowd. The party is expected to last well into the early hours of the morning, come rain or shine.
The biuilding work for the Olympic village in the Lee Valley area of Stratford London is set to begin within 24 hours and was going to be built irrespective of the bid winning or not. But it does give a deadline for infrastructural improvements to all of Londons Transport system.