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The winner for 2012 Olympics is... New York declared it would win before the day's proceedings even started and were congratulating themselves later on their presentation which focused on the vibrancy, ethnic diversity and never-give-up attitude of the citizens of the 'city that never sleeps'. Former First Lady, Senator Hillary Clinton told a news conference after the U.S. presentation: "We have a great sense of pride and relief about how well this went today." Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to the September 11 attack in the presentation and said: "New Yorkers asked ourselves 'can we recover', 'will we rebuild'?
Moscow, regarded as outsiders, inserted a surprise element into its presentation with a video clip of President Vladimir Putin speaking publicly in English for the first time as he exhorted IOC members to vote for the city which bridges European and Asian cultures. "This is a time when our country, having come through deep economic transformations, has ever-increasing possibilities," he said. New York bid chief and deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff had issued a bullish statement just before the meeting which read: "New York's bid is perfectly positioned to win the 2012 Games. This evening New York's Olympic dream will become reality." But pre-meeting gossip in the luxury hotels of the Raffles City complex where the vote takes place suggested Paris remained marginal favorites, ahead of London, Madrid, New York and Moscow. Doctoroff apart, it was almost impossible to find anyone prepared to stick his or her neck out and confidently declare a winner. The evaluation commission, which reports just before the vote, rated Paris
and London's bid as of "very high quality" with Madrid and New York assessed as
of "high quality" a month ago.
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