I think we got our main message across, that New York is a place that will welcome athletes, teams, fans from Africa like no other city can. We showed how New York will celebrate Africans and African athletes.

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I certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy. And New Yorkers certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy.

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They are highly dependent on the interest of the American audience. They have to maintain interest in the American viewer and one way is to have the games return here regularly.

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You can't have a glaring weakness with your most important venue and expect to win.

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What we're looking at, as we look ahead a few years, is a default, a half-finished site and a developer who walks away with potentially over half a billion dollars in profits and fees. We simply can't allow that to happen.

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We're not going to allocate Liberty Bonds today to buildings that are never going to be built.

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It's great to be here. A lot of people questioned whether we would be here. But there is one thing you want to know about New Yorkers - we never give up. In just 72 hours, we created a new great plan for our Olympic stadium.

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It's time to inject a dose of economic reality into the discussion about the future of the World Trade Center site.

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