What is the feeling in New York about the citys chances of winning the bid?
Compared to other cities, New York is particularly indifferent to the Olympic bid, possibly believing that they are outsiders in the race. That indifference has been reflected in the media coverage, even this week. New York is a big baseball city and with spring training on at the moment, the back pages of the newspapers are full of baseball stories and not stories about the inspection. Television coverage has also been minimal right across the board. Do people in New York back the bid? Given the indifference, it is quite hard to know whether people are actually backing the bid or not and the polls are not proving conclusive either way. The only real referendum among New Yorkers will probably be when Mayor Bloomberg goes up for re-election in November but, by then, the decision on the 2012 host will already be made. There was a rally on Monday at the Rockefeller Center and when I went down, most of the people there were tourists, including some from other parts of America, but not many
