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John Crumpacker, Chronicle Staff Writer
September 22, 2002—In the interest of serving the public and making its story available to all, the group attempting to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to San Francisco and the Bay Area has put its bid-about 1,000 pages' worth- online.
Except for the sensitive categories of international strategy and partnership potential, the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee's entire bid is just a click away at www.basoc2012.org.
"We want people to look at our bid," BASOC spokesman Tony Winnicker said. "We think it stands up to any kind of scrutiny, (such as) transportation and finance. We want to educate the U.S. Olympic Committee as much as possible within the rules. We want to do as much as we can to ensure people are informed."
Bid committees from San Francisco and New York are not allowed to contact the USOC directly until Nov. 2-3, when the USOC's board of directors meets in Colorado Springs, Colo., to decide between the two as the U.S. candidate city for 2012. However, there's nothing preventing a member of the USOC's board from logging on and taking a peek at San Francisco's bid.
BASOC's online bid is divided into specific categories to make downloading more efficient. Otherwise, it might take until 2012 simply to download the entire bid that in paper form covers four bound volumes. Because San Francisco is in competition with New York and could represent the U.S. in the international phase of the bidding against such cities as Rome, Paris, Moscow, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.
BASOC decided to keep the categories of international strategy and partnership, two crucial elements of the bid, to itself. "We feel that's a competitive thing," BASOC president Anne Cribbs said.
E-mail John Crumpacker at jcrumpacker@sfchronicle.com.
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