NoOlympia

Olympic Games in Hamburg

Hamburg applied for the olympic games in 2012 - the southeast part of the HafenCity would have been the place for the olympic village. The olympic games were considered necessary to speed up the developmental process of the HafenCity. But in April 2002 Leipzig won the pre-elections of the german city-candidates.

• Official marketing campaign for Olympia 2012 in Hamburg [Feuer und Flamme]
• Roundtrip over the Olympic Center [flight-animation] (avi video)
• Media coverage about application of hamburg: [Hamburger Abendblatt] | [Die Welt]

Information on this wiki

• No-Olympic informations and campaigns: [Anti-image-campaign NOlympia]
• The general concept for city developement in Hamburg for the next years: MetropoleHamburgWachsendeStadt
• HafenCity and Olympia: [Feuer und Flamme] (published at PublicationReadyToCapture, February 2003)

"I am for it" or "I participate".

Citizens' "participation", Hamburg style by means of the official image-campaign: Writing your name on the wall of a shopping centre. What exactly the people signing express to support or what the olmypic games does mean for the city and it´s inhabitants is neither explained nor discussed.

Model for the olympic games 2012 in Hamburg in the Hafencity

Other Texts (in german)

• Tattered gateway to the world "[Ramponiertes Tor zur Welt]" (Süddeutsche, 2003-02-18) Hamburg will sein Image-Problem lösen. Ole von Beusts CDU möchte eine größere, schickere Stadt und die Olympischen Spiele 2012... Tattered gateway to the world. Hamburg wants to refit it's public Image. The christian democrat party of Ole von Beust (governing mayor) wants a larger, trendier city and the olympic games in 2012...
• The secret plan of Henning Voscherau "[Der geheime Plan des Henning Voscherau]" (FAZ Sonntagszeitung, 2002-10-13) Spektakuläres von der Hamburger HafenCity und der Olympiabewerbung 2012. The secret plan of Henning Voscherau.
• Effects of the olympic games in previous cities [Olympia - der große Wurf?] (Hintz und Kuntz(t), August 2002)

Sites of other cities, those apply for the Olympic Games in 2012

Germany

• Duesseldort: http://www.duesseldorf-2012.org
• Leipzig: http://olympia-leipzig-2012.de
• Frankfurt: http://www.wir-sind-dabei-2012.de
• Stuttgart: http://www.stuttgart2012.info

(beware. all sites are doing brutal active-x/flash/popup attacks.)

National olympic committee for Germany [NOC Germany], a site about all german applications: http://www.olympiabewerber.de

Worldwide

• New York: http://www.nyc2012.com/ (confirmed)
• Madrid: http://www.madrid2012.es/ (confirmed)
• San Francisco: http://www.basoc2012.com/ (retreated)

• Link database: http://www.olympiade-navigator.de/
• Olympic Bids (Overview): http://www.gamesbids.com/english/bids/2012.shtml

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