Mayor Michael Bloomberg to travel to Croatia in Olympic bid
November 29, 2004, 1:41 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) _ Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to Croatia on Friday to present the city’s bid for the 2012 Olympics to a group of European Olympic committees.
Bloomberg said Monday he will travel with a group of advisers to the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, site of a meeting of the 48-nation European National Olympic Committees.
Representatives of candidate cities are allowed to meet with members of the International Olympic Committee at the conference.
The IOC will announce which nation will host the 2012 Games on July 6.
Besides New York, four European capitals _ London, Paris, Madrid and Moscow _ are bidding for 2012.
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