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Score one for Mike: IOC boosts stadium; It links 2012 Olympics to West Side project; Democrats in a bind.(News)(International Olympic Committee, mayor Michael Bloomberg )

Crain's New York Business, February, 2005 by Michaud, Anne

Byline: anne michaud With a few words of farewell at a press conference last week, the chairwoman of the visiting International Olympic Committee team handed Mayor Michael Bloomberg his most significant political windfall in many months. Saying that New York City needs a stadium plan approved before the IOC vote in July if it wants a shot at winning the 2012 Olympics, Nawal el-Moutawakel destroyed Albany legislators' rationale for delaying a West Side stadium deal until this summer.

She also put the squeeze on the Democratic candidates for mayor, making it very uncomfortable for them to remain both anti-stadium and pro-Olympics or to use the stadium issue as a political tool against Mr. Bloomberg. "Who wants to get blamed for undermining the Olympic bid...

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