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L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.


Byline: -- Tom Hoffarth

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune

Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper
 writer Phil Hersh had a piece the other day that detailed L.A.'s 2016 Summer Olympics bid as its competes first against Chicago and San Francisco to see who gets the USOC's approval before moving onto the IOC's final pick out of the world contenders.

According to Barry Sanders, who chairs the Southern California bid, L.A. will:

Use the Coliseum again as the focal point focal point
n.
See focus.
 (reinstalling a track).

Have just one main Olympic Village, either at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code.  or UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
.

Use Long Beach for swimming (at a temporary pool) as well as rowing and canoe-kayaking.

Build a new facility at UCLA for diving, use Staples Center for gymnastics, the new Nokia Theatre for weightlifting, the new Galen Center for boxing and the soon-to-be renamed Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim for basketball.

What you got, Chi-Town?
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Title Annotation:Sports
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Sep 8, 2006
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