February 2001 A presentation on the bid is made to the secretary of state, Chris Smith, and minister for sport, Kate Hoey, at DCMS.
At the presentation of New York's bid, Mayor Bloomberg committed to breaking ground for the subway project before 2005.
During the presentation, the bid committee ran clips of cold-weather games and noted that weather did not deter millions of people from visiting New York to see the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center or to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square.
She counted several senators among her clients, but most notably, architecture firms, who would bring their slides and talks to her for a dress rehearsal before the presentation of a major bid.
During its presentation, the bid team showed a graphic of the world and marked all the places that have held an Olympics.
But it was no lesser dignitary than Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, one of the emir's wives, who in 2010 raised a rather pertinent question at the very start of her official presentation of Qatar's bid to stage the 2022 World Cup.
He said she would travel to Denmark before the vote, with enough time to meet the I.O.C. members, and would be part of the bid's final presentation.
[Gathered at Rockefeller Plaza just before midnight, about 3,000 people cheered and applauded as the formal presentation of New York's bid was broadcast on a huge screen.
He also shared, with David Triesman, the British peer who heads England's soccer association, the presentation of that visit to the township as part of the bid to win approval for the 2018 bid.
The bid presentations ended at 9 00 UTC and a presentation of the Evaluation Commission's final report preceded the election.
