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From France: Tony Parker of the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs said Paris' loss proved the IOC had an Anglo-Saxon bias.
"It's been three times now that Paris has been refused _ 1992, 2008 and 2012. I find that bizarre," Parker said. "We did everything we had to do. I don't know what more we could have done.
"It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600523_pf.html
From Spain: "It's terrible," said 50-year-old Maria Luz Beltran. "This was already thought out and voted on beforehand. I am angry. Madrid had a chance of winning but it's all politics."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050706/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_madrid_bid_1
From Moscow: "We have an Olympic tradition here; we should have won," said Elena Ankudinova, a masseuse.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050706/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_moscow_bid_1
"It's been three times now that Paris has been refused _ 1992, 2008 and 2012. I find that bizarre," Parker said. "We did everything we had to do. I don't know what more we could have done.
"It proves that the committee is Anglo-Saxon. They prefer the English."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600523_pf.html
From Spain: "It's terrible," said 50-year-old Maria Luz Beltran. "This was already thought out and voted on beforehand. I am angry. Madrid had a chance of winning but it's all politics."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050706/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_madrid_bid_1
From Moscow: "We have an Olympic tradition here; we should have won," said Elena Ankudinova, a masseuse.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050706/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_moscow_bid_1