It is widely expected that Vancouver will be short-listed today to go head to head with Salzburg in Austria for the right to host the 2010 winter Games. Other candidates include Bern (Switzerland), Pyeongchang (South Korea), Andorra La Vella (Andorra), Jaca (Spain), Harbin (China) and Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Meanwhile, the US Olympic Committee (USOC) is today choosing two finalists from New York, Houston, San Francisco and the Washington-Baltimore area to be its official US bidding city for the the 2012 summer Olympics.
The USOC will pick its final candidate on November 3 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will select the host in 2005 - two years after it selects its host for the winter Games in 2010.
But if Vancouver is awarded the 2010 Games next year, it would diminish the USA's chances of hosting the 2012 event because the IOC is highly unlikely to award two Games in a row to North American cities. Toronto's chances of hosting the Summer Games 2012 would be even further diminished by the decision.
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