When London won the rights to stage the 2012 Olympics it based its presentation on the sustainable legacy Sean Davies asks whether those pledges have been met. ON 6 JULY 2005 the city of London won a two-way fight with Paris by 54 votes to 50 at the IOC meeting in Singapore for the right to stage the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was heralded as a momentous day for Britain by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair and it set a seven-year countdown clock ticking to the greatest show on Earth. Paris had been the favourite throughout the campaign, but London's hopes were raised after an impressive presentation by Lord Coe, the bid chairman. It was widely recognised that bid leader Coe, a high-profile personality within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other governing bodies, hauled London closer to the French capital as the vote approached.
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