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Olympic bids

COLORADO SPRINGS: A record 10 cities, including two-time Olympic host Los Angeles, have officially signed up as candidates to bring the Summer Games back to the United States in 2012.

The cities each submitted a letter of intent and a non-refundable bid fee to the US Olympic Committee by the close of business on Monday, the first of many deadlines the candidates would face in their race for host status.

Aussies sore

SYDNEY: Australian swimming president Terry Gathercole has written to the sport’s world governing body expressing concern over China’s latest barrage of extraordinary performances which threaten to produce another Chinese monopoly in women’s swimming.

Gathercole said Australian officials were concerned at the “suspicious” results at China’s National Games in Shanghai last week when Chinese women swimmers set two world records and six world-best times for 1997.

Moorer swipe

NEW YORK: Michael Moorer took a swipe at his critics for dwelling on his bad fights and not the good ones as he prepared to meet Evander Holyfield in a Heavyweight Championship unification match next month in Las Vegas.

“It just amazes me how people want to focus on past performances that I looked bad in,” Moorer said in a testy 30-minute tele-conference call from his training camp in Los Angeles on Wednesday.