Sentence examples for olympic vote from inspiring English sources

Earlier, in Buenos Aires, where the Olympic vote was announced, Abe appeared to play down the issue.

After the Olympic vote, Ankara's mayor, Melih Gokcek, wrote on Twitter that the antigovernment protesters were traitors who caused Istanbul to lose its bid.

Just two weeks after the Olympic vote, the city was struck by a spate of weekend clashes between drug gangs and the police that left at least 26 people dead.

While he was in Copenhagen for the Olympic vote, a video surfaced online that showed a high-school brawl on the South Side, in which an honor-roll student named Derrion Albert was beaten and stomped to death by other teen-agers.

At least one member of the International Olympic Committee, which highlighted Rio's security challenges as its chief concern before the vote on Oct. 2, was quick to point out that Rio was not the only city to endure violence after winning an Olympic vote.

But it is an accepted rule in Olympic voting, as it is in Olympic running, that it is often better to be chasing until the homestretch than leading.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin October 2, 2009 Even with Michelle Obama bringing tears to listeners' eyes with the story of her father, on crutches, teaching her to throw a ball on the playing fields of Chicago, the First Lady's hometown was the first city eliminated in the Olympic voting in Copenhagen today.

(Photograph: The White House) Even with Michelle Obama bringing tears to listeners' eyes with the story of her father, on crutches, teaching her to throw a ball on the playing fields of Chicago, the First Lady's hometown was the first city eliminated in the Olympic voting in Copenhagen today.

Olympic votes used to be carved up in secretive smoke-filled corridors.

While all 115 or so Olympic delegates vote to award the Winter and Summer Games, FIFA's voting is limited to the two dozen members of its executive committee.

There is no way a Manhattan stadium could make it through all the approvals -- including litigation -- by the time of the Olympic committee vote in July 2005.