NYC2012 unveils striking new logo in ceremonies at Times Square attended by Olympic legends Jeff Blatnick, Oksana Baiul, Dominique Dawes, Al Oerter and Jenny Thompson.

All 42 USOC National Sports Governing Bodies announce their full support and confidence in NYC2012's bid and plan to win the Games in 2012.

May
USOC and New York host the Olympic Media Summit for some 1,100 journalists and broadcasters headed for the Olympic Games in Athens, and meet and interview some 100 top U.S. Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor and NYC2012 Founder Dan Doctoroff open the session with a striking presentation on the city's 2012 bid.

Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and NYC2012 announce that the architectural firm Morphosis of Santa Monica, Cal., has been selected as the winner of the bid's Olympic Village design study from among five finalists in the United States, Denmark, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

June
USOC hosts annual AIPS Congress of some 250 international sports journalists in New York City. It is the first time that the prestigious journalistic group has held its annual meeting in the United States. AIPS delegates are hosted for dinner at Gracie Mansion, see Yankees baseball game, Broadway Shows, attend special presentation at NBC Studios, hear panels by the New York Times Sports staff and top Olympic athletes.

July
USOC and NYC2012 announce partnership in new "Olympic Leaders Travel Program," which supports the worldwide Olympic Family in requests to obtain travel visas to the United States through a 24-hour special USOC number....directly and effectively addressing a major issue raised in the bid process.

NYC2012 relaunches new, striking web site, http://www.nyc2012.com/ as part of "Let The Dreams Begin" marketing campaign started in June

August
NYC2012 delegation attends Olympic Games in Athens, where Mayor Bloomberg meets and speaks with almost 40 IOC members and Dan Doctoroff meets and speaks with almost every IOC member over a two week span in the host city. NYC2012 and the four other candidate cities each present a look at their bids to the worldwide media on August 15 at the Main Press Center.

October
Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomes more than 40 USA Olympic and Paralympic stars from the Athens Games to New York City for a heroes celebration and a gathering at the A. Philip Randolph High School in Upper Manhattan following the team's visit to the White House the previous afternoon in Washington. On hand are stars like Paul Hamm, Gary Hall, Jr., Kerri Walsh and Misty May, Kevin Szott and Shawn Crawford.

United States Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions supporting New York's 2012 Olympic bid.

November
NYC2012 submits 600-page, three volume set of bid books to the International Olympic Committee and sends them off with a major event on the Brooklyn Bridge involving Goverbor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Donna de Varona, scores of Olympians and Paralympians and more than 5,000 New Yorkers. The final bid documents features significant adjustments to the athlete transportation plan and the layout of the Olympic Village, responding aggressively and effectively to earlier IOC concerns after the submission of the first official questionnaire. The athlete-centered bid highlights three major venue clusters, state-of-the-art venues neatly aligned within a short distance from the Village and a dramatic legacy for the future for Olympic sport and athletes. No previous American bid has been as compact and effective in this regard.

USOC Chair Peter Ueberroth announces historic Olympic Multiparty Agreement among the USOC, NYC2012, the State of New York, City of New York, State of New Jersey and Nassau County, committing each to cooperation in planning and operating the 2012 Olympic games if the city is chosen. The agreement is unprecedented among previous American candidate cities. "There is no doubt in my mind that New York has produced a bid that can win," said Ueberroth.

NYC2012's Circle of Olympic and Paralympic athletes involved in the bid reaches a roster of more than 1,700 athletes from the USA and 28 other nations.

December
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor/NYC2012 Founder Dan Doctoroff address European Olympic Committee General Assembly in Dubrovnik, Croatia and watch as the New York bid's stock rises dramatically among observers and bid followers.

NYC2012 ships a massive brochure with striking images of the city to the 117 IOC Members in five languages. It measures 38" by 26" and weighs almost three pounds.

NYC2012 announces that it has reserved some 95% of all outdoor advertising space in the city, some 600,000 billboards, subway signs and others, for use by Olympic sponsors for 2012 in an unprecedented marketing program to protect sponsor rights.

New Year's Eve 2004
Nine of the world's greatest Olympic and Paralympic athletes help New York welcome the New Year in Times Square after being honored at an earlier luncheon by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.....including Ian Thorpe, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Conner and trischa Zorn.

Looking ahead:

Feb.21-24
Visit to New York by the prestigious IOC 2012 Evaluation Commission....one of the most significant events in the bid process.

May
IOC Executive Board Final report on 2012 cities.

July 6
Singapore, IOC selects 2012 Host City.