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Area Officials May Look to 2016
The crowd in London's Trafalgar Square reacts to Wednesday's announcement by the IOC.
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Though New York officials scrambled to put together a new stadium deal in the borough of Queens that they said showcased their ingenuity and resilience, the USOC apparently did not appreciate the last-minute slip-up. When asked if the next bid process would require more concrete construction guarantees, Ueberroth said "that's an assumption you can make."
Other elements of the selection process, Ueberroth said, would be determined by the board based on recommendations from Scherr and his staff.
"It will be fair, transparent and equal opportunity for those cities interested," Scherr said, also by phone from Singapore.
Anne Cribbs, the leader of San Francisco's bid group, said yesterday her team had interest in bidding again but would await further details from the USOC. Other cities likely to express interest include those who went through the USOC's previous selection process: Los Angeles, Tampa-Orlando, Houston, Cincinnati and Dallas.
Los Angeles could emerge as a major contender despite having gotten knocked out after the first round of the 2012 city selection (along with Cincinnati, Dallas and Tampa-Orlando). Ueberroth lives in Los Angeles and directed the 1984 Olympic Games there with such success that he was named Time magazine's man of the year. Two other board members, Anita DeFrantz and Bob Ctvrtlik, also have strong ties to Los Angeles, and DeFrantz was a vocal supporter of Los Angeles's failed 2012 candidacy.
Still, San Francisco would seem to have the most compelling claim to succeed New York. A 2003 vote of a USOC technical evaluation team to narrow the 2012 field to two finalists gave New York nine votes and San Francisco six. Washington finished with five and Houston none.
It is unclear when New York officials will announce their intentions for 2016. They expressed indecision about their bid's future yesterday, Scherr said, and bid founder Dan Doctoroff told The Post in February that a second bid seemed unlikely.
"Our bid today is a combination of a unique series of resources that I'm not sure are replicable," Doctoroff said then. "I do think this is a unique moment in time."
Staff writer Lori Montgomery contributed to this report.
