The capital of the Olympics-2012

The 2012 summer Olympics will be held in London. This decision was made by members of the International Olympic Committee, gathered at the 117th session in Singapore. The capital of the XXX Olympic Games was named at the voting results ceremony at about 16:00 Moscow time, after the President of the IOC Jacques Rogge solemnly, to the accompaniment of the Olympic anthem, handed an envelope with the name of the winner.

Earlier, Moscow, New York, Madrid and Paris left for the Olympiad. Moreover, Moscow dropped out the first, having received the least support already in the first round of voting of the IOC members. Then they left New York and Madrid. As a result, London won Paris the right to the 2012 Olympics with an advantage of only 4 votes. For the British capital, this will be the third Olympiad.

The voting results ceremony began at 15:30 with the presentation video of the Organizing Committee of the session about Singapore, which lasted 2 minutes. Next, videos representing all the Candidates cities for the right to hold the 2012 Olympics were demonstrated, in the following order: Paris, New York, Moscow, London, Madrid. Each show took a minute one and a half minutes. Some videos were shot by famous directors. So, for Paris, the video was shot by Luke Besson, and for New York - Stephen Spielberg.

In the morning, before voting, the participants of the 117th session of the IOC presented the final presentations of the pest cities. Each presentation was given 45 minutes. After that, within 15 minutes, representatives of the city answered questions from the IOC members.

The Moscow application for the 2012 Olympics was presented by Russian politicians and athletes-speaking, they spoke English. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov quoted the founder of the Olympic movement Pierre de Cuberten: "About sport, you are audacity!" he said. And Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov promised that if members of the IOC choose Moscow, then this "will once again give humanity to move along the path of progress." Then he gave the floor to Vladimir Putin, who made a television person.

The Russian President recalled, also in English, that the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow became "a model of the Olympic Games in terms of both an effective organization and hospitality." "As the President of Russia, I am convinced that our hopes for success in the struggle for the 2012 Olympics are completely justified, reasonable and realistic. Without a doubt, whatever your choice, you can always count on Russia as a reliable partner of the Olympic movement," Putin said. He emphasized that the election of Moscow by the capital of the 2012 Olympic Games would instill in people and the peoples living here, even more confidence, emphasizing the significance of their hopes for life and development within the highest standards of modern civilization. " At the end of his speech, Putin said: "I am convinced that if the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Moscow, they will be the best in history."

In addition to politicians, a three-time Olympic champion, skater Irina Rodnina, TV presenter Julia Bordovskikh and a swimmers-Olympian Alexander Popov, was agitated by a three-time Olympic champion for Moscow.

Representatives of four other presidential cities performed at the IOC session: the mayors of these cities, politicians and famous athletes. Thus, the candidacy of New York was promoted by Senator Hillary Clinton and the seriously ill patient boxer Muhammad Ali. For Paris, France President Jacques Shirak agitated, who, because of this, will be late for the Big Eight summit, which begins his work on Wednesday in Scotland. Madrid and London were represented accordingly to the Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair and Queen of Spain Sophia.

Muscovites were able to see the process of election of the capital of the XXX Summer Olympic Games 2012 on the air of Singapore, coming to the Vasilyevsky descent on July 6. Under the walls of the Kremlin, a giant monitor translated the procedure for voting members of the IOC, as well as the announcement of the voting results. More than 70 thousand people came to support Moscow for Vasilyevsky descent.

The chances of Moscow to accept the 2012 Olympics were originally very low. Back in March of this year, when a commission of the International Olympic Committee came to us, bookmakers made bets on the Russian capital 50 to 1.

Nevertheless, after the announcement of the results, Yuri Luzhkov said that he did not consider the choice of London the capital of the Olympic Games with the defeat of Moscow. "I do not feel any grief, no irritation, because we worked with dignity, and our presentation was one of the best. This was recognized even by members of the International Olympic Committee. I respect London as the capital of the Olympiad," he told Interfax.