Citius...Altius...Fortius...

The race for the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics is heating up.The committee in charge of designating the host city for the games of the XXX (30th) Olympiad is heading to Madrid even as I am writing this...

To recap..five cities are still left in the bidding for 2012 - Madrid, London, New York, Paris and Moscow - this is the order in which the committee is visiting the five cities.

Interesting subplot in this is the race between London and Paris to have the distinction of being the first city worldwide to host the Games a third time. Paris hosted it in 1900 and 1924, with London doing the honors in 1908 and 1948.

Just considering the sheer fact that Paris is semi-ready to host the games, I would think it has to be considered the favorite to host the games...we will know for sure in July 05, assuming that the IOC members are not bribed quite like with the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics scandal..