On 6 July 2005, the election day, the IOC Session was held at the Raffles City Convention Centre.
The opening ceremony of the 117th IOC Session was held at the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay in Singapore on 5 July 2005.
The vote was held September 30 , 1981 at Baden-Baden, West Germany, during the 84th IOC Session and 11th Olympic Congress.
And while the IOC has often been held up as a model for Fifa after the reforming strides it made in the wake of its own Salt Lake City bribery meltdown, it too still has bigger issues than it cares to acknowledge.
I would bet my last dollar that if this high-powered IOC meeting had been held in Chicago we wouldn't have gotten within shouting range of the location.
The paper said Tokyo government officials had dramatically understated construction costs in a report to the IOC, allegedly to ensure the sports would be held in the capital.
Matters came to a head in 1952, when the mainland NOC (the All-China Athletic Federation), considering itself a continuation of the pre-1949 committee, wrote to the IOC stating that it desired to participate in the Helsinki Olympics to be held that year.
In 1894, at a conference held at the Sorbonne in Paris, Pierre de Coubertin selected the first members of a Comité International Olympique (International Olympic Committee; IOC) and arranged for the first Olympic Games of the modern era to be held in Athens in 1896.
IOC president, Jacques Rogge, in his opening press conference, said the fact that doping cheats were being caught and banned was a positive sign and said the fact samples would be held for up to eight years was a major deterrent.
The main sports complex, with roofs and public spaces designed by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, should become a tourist attraction in its own right.Corporate sponsors and the IOC are still holding their breath.
