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Chicago on Fast Track for Olympics Guarantee

3/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics could have a $1.4 billion guarantee in place by the end of the week, a move that could determine the outcome of a close race with Los Angeles for the U.S. nomination. Read More...

Press Release: AIBA Comments on Mosow Boxing Withdrawl

3/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Here is a press release from AIBA commenting of the withdrawl of Moscow as host of the boxing World Championships. Read More...

Moscow Loses Boxing World Championship

3/11/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The International Boxing Association has cancelled Moscow as the site for the 2007 World Championships. Read More...

Countdown Beijing: Licensed Product Sales, Bibles in Hotels and Mandarin Speakers Wanted

3/10/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Record-setting sales from licensed products, the Bible in Beijing hotel rooms and a search for Mandarin-speaking volunteers: More inside with Countdown Beijing… Read More...

Chicago Will Seek Olympic Guarantees, Switch Aquatics Venue Site

3/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The Chicago city council will be asked to consider a package of financial guarantees worth as much as $500 million to help lure the U.S. nomination for the 2016 Olympics. And Chicago bid organizers say to improve the legacy of a 2016 Games, they will change the location where an aquatics center would be built. Read More...

Native Group Says it Stole Olympic Flag as Protest

3/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) An Olympic flag in Vancouver may have been stolen from City Hall as a protest by a native group, who released an image of three of its members with what they say is the missing flag. Read More...

On the Scene in Chicago: An Olympic Notepad

3/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) The playing field may have been frozen but the leaders of Chicago 2016 managed to avoid any slipping on the ice during the 48-hour visit of the USOC Evaluation Commission. The visit had some marked differences from and similarities to the Los Angeles trip a week ago. On the scene coverage inside... Read More...

Sochi Marks Womens’ Day with New Olympic Rep

3/8/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Russia's first female Winter Games Champion joins the Sochi 2014 Olympic bid in celebration of International Womens’ Day. Read More...

Getting Coordinated in Vancouver

3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) With fewer than 1100 days to the 2010 opening ceremony, the Olympics overseer says “time is running”. Read More...

Press release: Hoeller, Leitner appointed Executive Directors Salzburg 2014

3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM
(ATR) Here is a press release from Salzburg 2014 announcing the appointment of Rudolf Hoeller and Gernot Leitner as joint Executive Directors of the city's Olympic bid. Read More...

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We reach decision-makers at high profile events through the distribution of printed Special Editions. These glossy, high-impact publications are produced for events such as IOC Sessions and SportAccord and are available for downloading free of charge. These ATR Special Editions, found below, are in low-res PDF format and the average file size is ~3+ MB.
The Golden 25 for 2008
The Golden 25, now in its 12th year, is a compilation of the personalities who will play the greatest influence in 2008 for the business of the Olympics. The listing is the product of a matrix assembled by ATR that includes names, events and issues that will come into play for 2008.

The IOC Comes to Guatemala
Humid and exotic, Guatemala seems an unlikely spot to consider the destiny of the Winter Olympics. Even so, the IOC will nonetheless set the wheels in motion for the 2014 Games, a highlight on day one. Once the furor over the July 4 vote passes, the 119th IOC Session gets down to three days of business that includes consideration of the Youth Olympic Games. It could become the first new multi-sports event under the flag of the Olympics since the Winter Olympics were added 80 years ago.


Countdown to Beijing: SportAccord 2007
The 2007 SportAccord convention in Beijing is on track to be the biggest yet since the event started in Madrid five years ago. More than 1,300 delegates registered for the convention, which has become the only annual gathering that include leaders of the IOC, international sports federations, bid cities and prominent executives from sports marketing and manufacturing. Around the Rings Beijing correspondent, Bill Smith, previews the next few months as the 2008 host city is put through its paces with more than two dozen test events.


The Race For 2014
For the second time in a row, the race for the Winter Olympic Games is a contest of three cities—two of them repeat contenders. It's as close as anything we've seen to a trend in bids for the Winter Games. The finalists were culled from a group of seven in May of 2006. The IOC Executive Board chose “quality over quantity”: PyeongChang, Salzburg and Sochi the unmistakable choices to make formal bids.


The Golden 25 for 2007
The Golden 25, now in its 11th year, is a compilation of the personalities who will play the greatest influence in 2007 for the business of the Olympics. The listing is the product of a matrix assembled by ATR that includes names, events and issues that will come into play for 2007.


SportAccord 2006 in Seoul
No other meeting outside of an IOC Session brings together as many personalities from the IOC, international federations and the business of world sport. This year's meeting has even more luster with the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees, bringing leaders of the 203 NOCs to Seoul. This Special Edition includes profiles on each of the five continental associations represented at the ANOC meetings.


Decision 2005: Singapore
At the top of the list for the 117th IOC session is the July 6 election of the 2012 host. It is a race unprecedented in the history of Olympic bids, with five world-class cities competing at the same time: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris.


The Road To Torino
With a population of two million, Torino is a far cry from Cortina d’Ampezzo. Fifty years ago, this hamlet with 5,000 inhabitants and a classic mountainside setting was the last Italian host for the Winter Olympics. With the Winter Games now three times bigger than they were in 1956, Torino 2006 President Valentino Castellani says he cannot imagine how they could be held without the facilities of a major city, such as Torino.

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ATR power index
2016 ATR Olympic Bid Power Index
January 23, 2008
(Points possible out of 110)

    1. Chicago - 79
    2.(tie) Madrid - 77
    2.(tie) Rio de Janeiro - 77
    3. Tokyo - 74
    4. Doha - 69
    5.(tie) Prague - 55
    5.(tie) Baku - 55

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IOC told China to ditch relay - 04/20/2008 CHINESE officials were repeatedly told by the International Olympic Committee that it did not want a global torch relay because of concerns about security and the cost for participating countries.

Veteran Olympic commentator Ed Hula has slammed the IOC for caving in to China's demands for a relay. In an editorial in his Around the Rings Olympic newsletter, Mr Hula said the IOC's "misreading" of the political sensitivities of the torch relay route would cost millions of dollars in extra security for host cities.
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