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  • Thumbnail for Bids for the Olympic Games
    territories to put forth bids for the Olympic Games. The staging of the Paralympic Games is automatically included in the bid. Since the creation of the...
    75 KB (1,562 words) - 16:18, 4 August 2024
  • Australian horse quarantine rules forced the equestrian events to be held in Stockholm. Three times there have been only a single bid, Stockholm in 1912, and Los...
    41 KB (883 words) - 11:33, 6 August 2024
  • IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. New Delhi, India, had announced a bid for the games, but withdrew in March 1986. With 85 out of 89 members of the...
    91 KB (4,414 words) - 17:21, 6 August 2024
  • Five cities made the shortlist with their bids to host the 2004 Summer Olympics (formally known as Games of the XXVIII Olympiad), which were awarded to...
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  • Thumbnail for Bids for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics
    Five bids were initially submitted for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Following withdrawals, two bidding cities—Paris and Los Angeles—were left in the process...
    161 KB (11,793 words) - 06:45, 6 August 2024
  • a forced bid, and the deal is passed to the left. Holding a "9" and another card of the same suit is a forced minimum bid of 9. The winning bidder will...
    51 KB (8,457 words) - 04:28, 19 July 2024
  • political climate that forced Rome to suspend its bid for the 2024 Summer Games. In 2017, Paris and Los Angeles had won their hosting bids for the 2024 and...
    9 KB (995 words) - 04:10, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auction
    offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this...
    111 KB (13,530 words) - 19:59, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay 2030 FIFA World Cup bid
    2030 FIFA World Cup bid, also known as the South American Bid or simply the South Bid, was an unsuccessful joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World...
    39 KB (3,465 words) - 17:37, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1964 Summer Olympics
    IOC Session in Munich, West Germany, over bids from Detroit, Brussels and Vienna. Toronto was an early bidder again in 1964 after the failed attempt for...
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  • Thumbnail for London bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
    London 2012 was the successful bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, held in London with most events taking place in Stratford in the borough of Newham...
    42 KB (4,576 words) - 04:18, 3 August 2024
  • preceding tournaments are not eligible to host, all UEFA bids were forced to be for 2018 only. Four bids came from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), four...
    92 KB (8,434 words) - 17:29, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bid Euchre
    Bid Euchre, Auction Euchre, Pepper, or Hasenpfeffer, is the name given to a group of card games played in North America based on the game Euchre. It introduces...
    20 KB (3,409 words) - 21:04, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1972 Summer Olympics
    the first time. Munich won its Olympic bid on 26 April 1966, at the 64th IOC Session in Rome, Italy, over bids presented by Detroit, Madrid, and Montréal...
    68 KB (3,820 words) - 00:59, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics
    Scottish man based in Canada, Mr. W. Hastie Cochrane, was unsuccessful in his bid to get rugby sevens into the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics: the IOC stated that...
    25 KB (1,918 words) - 22:10, 4 August 2024
  • Rome first bid for the 1908 Summer Olympics and was ultimately awarded the games. However the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 forced Italy to return...
    19 KB (1,986 words) - 14:54, 23 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Persecution of Uyghurs in China
    have included forced labor and factory work, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, forced sterilization, forced contraception...
    364 KB (34,306 words) - 20:13, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics
    Three cities applied with bids to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics (also known as XXIII Olympic Winter Games and XII Paralympic Winter Games)...
    60 KB (5,348 words) - 19:02, 16 July 2024
  • Metropolitan Region, Chonburi, and Songkhla as their main host cities. The joint bid from the three cities was awarded the Games on 13 January 2023, after Thailand...
    34 KB (2,941 words) - 17:30, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for FIFA Women's World Cup hosts
     United States  Sweden Bids:  China Originally, China was to host the 2003 edition, but the outbreak of SARS in that country forced that event to be moved...
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