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  1. Jun 21, 2019 · The bid to host the games ultimately failed, but it provided a blueprint that has guided the city's development ever since.

  2. Doctoroff thought of bringing the Olympic Games to New York after witnessing New York's international sports fans at a 1994 FIFA World Cup match in Giants Stadium. He then built a team to help craft a plan for staging the Games.

  3. Aug 9, 2021 · The NYC2012 attempt faltered, but plans to reshape huge swaths of the city to accommodate brand new sporting venues—and, later, transformative residential projects—swiftly crossed the finish line, buoyed by Olympic fervor and a time-bound bid for the Games.

  4. Olympic bid. In 1994, after attending a World Cup soccer match between Italy and Bulgaria, Doctoroff was inspired to bring such competition to New York City as host of the 2008 Olympic games. Largely unknown in political, sporting and business circles of New York, Doctoroff connected with political consultant Robert Teeter, under whom Doctoroff ...

  5. Sep 8, 2016 · As far back as 1996, Doctoroff — then a private equity investor — had pitched an idea for how to recharge New York: host the Olympics. And in 2002, he brought the Olympic bid to City Hall.

  6. One numbingly cold morning late last month, Dan Doctoroff, New York’s deputy mayor for economic development, was in Lausanne, Switzerland, home to the International Olympic Committee, waiting ...

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  8. Sep 7, 2022 · BREAKING THE MOLD Doctoroff’s civic career started with his impassioned desire to have New York City host the Olympics, which he said would act as a catalyst to remake the city’s economy...