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4 unusual facts about San Francisco bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics


San Francisco bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics

Newsom announced on July 11, 2006 that the new bid would be centered around a proposed new San Francisco 49ers stadium in the property on which Candlestick Park stands today.

Ultimately, Chicago was elected by the USOC to be the U.S. bid city for 2016.

On November 9, 2006, the San Francisco 49ers ended negotiations with the city of San Francisco for the development of a new football stadium that would also be used as the centerpiece of the 2016 Olympics.

Like the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, San Francisco and the entire San Francisco Bay Area in California touted a compact but regional-participatory focus for its bid, expressing an interest in developing planning partnerships with a large number of neighboring large cities.



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