Voting error won London the Olympics..
This is quite an interesting article on the voting for the Olympic 2012 bid...
Excerpts:
''Alex Gilady, an Israeli IOC member and part of the London 2012 Co-ordination Commission, tells the programme that another IOC member, thought to be Lambis Nikolaou of Greece, made the mistake.''
"If he had voted for Madrid it would have been 32-32 and we would have to have a vote-off between Madrid and Paris.
"In the vote-off, all the votes supporting London would have gone to Madrid because the fear was that Paris had a big chance to win. Madrid would have won against Paris, coming to the final against London."
Click here to read on!
Excerpts:
''Alex Gilady, an Israeli IOC member and part of the London 2012 Co-ordination Commission, tells the programme that another IOC member, thought to be Lambis Nikolaou of Greece, made the mistake.''
"If he had voted for Madrid it would have been 32-32 and we would have to have a vote-off between Madrid and Paris.
"In the vote-off, all the votes supporting London would have gone to Madrid because the fear was that Paris had a big chance to win. Madrid would have won against Paris, coming to the final against London."
Click here to read on!



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International Olympic Committee member Lambis Nikolaou has denied making a voting error that could have helped London win the 2012 Olympics.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/4563648.stm
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