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John Crumpacker, Chronicle Staff Writer
October 15, 2002 -- Bay Area Olympic
bidders have dropped 100 pages of reasons
on the U.S. Olympic Committee why San Francisco
and not New York should be the U.S. candidate
to host the 2012 Summer Games.
The document summarizes three years of
bid information produced by the Bay Area
Sports Organizing Committee on proposed
venues for the Games and ways the Bay Area
would accommodate the thousands of international
visitors. It was sent last week to the 123-member
U.S. Olympic Committee, which will vote
Nov. 2 on which city will take part in the
international competition for the Games.
The Bay Area committee emphasizes the region's
favorable summer weather for athletes, a
financial plan low on capital investment,
and the fact that 80 percent of projected
sports venues are already in place.
Local boosters also say the Bay Area's
transportation system has twice the capacity
of public transit in Sydney, which hosted
the 2000 Olympics. New York produced a similar
document for the U.S. committee. The U.S.
candidate will go up against such cities
as Paris, London, Rome and Toronto when
the International Olympic Committee picks
a host for the 2012 Games in three years.
To augment their bid, Bay Area committee
officials are anticipating the passage today
of a resolution by the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors authorizing the mayor in
2005 to sign a host city contract, as required
by the International Olympic Committee,
should San Francisco be picked as the site
of the 2012 Games.
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