News roundup: This week’s topics
- IOC Vote on who will hold the Olympic Winter Games 2022 promises an Olympic “First” and a “Last” [IOC]
- Tokyo Olympic Games logo embroiled in plagiarism row [The Guardian]
- AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio’s filth [AP]
- IOC president Thomas Bach hits out at Boston for aborted 2024 Olympics bid [The Guardian]
- USOC open discussions with Los Angeles over bid for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics [Inside the Games]
- IOC urges US to come up with another bid city for 2024 Games [USA Today]
- ‘The Olympics are dead’: Does anyone want to be a host city any more? [The Guardian]
- Boston’s bid for 2024 Games crumbles as US Olympic Committee severs ties [The Guardian]
- Buenos Aires 2018 launches official emblem [IOC]
- IOC wraps-up fifth Project Review visit to PyeongChang [IOC]
- London’s Olympic legacy three years on: is the city really getting what it needed? [The Guardian]
- Japan’s heave-ho of Zaha Hadid’s Olympic stadium is a win for the people [The Guardian]
- Rio 2016: ‘The Olympics has destroyed my home’ [The Guardian]
Photo of the week
Read more: London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower Will Soon Be the World’s Tallest Slide [ArchDaily]
New posts on Architecture of the Games
- 2022 Bid; Beijing announced as the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games!
- Tokyo 2020; New National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan Statement by Zaha Hadid Architects
- Tokyo 2020; Olympic and Paralympic emblem
- London 2012; Park map Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (July 2015)
- 2022 Bid; Almaty or Beijing?
This week’s most read articles
- London 2012; Transformation Olympic Stadium (8) – Roof structure almost finished
- Rio 2016; Meet the mascots!
- Rio 2016; Font
- 128th IOC Session; Schedule of events IOC EB Meeting and 128th Session Kuala Lumpur 2015
- London 2012; Location of Olympic Bell, The Champions Statue and Champions Place revealed