That is when the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Singapore, will choose the host of the 2012 Games.

So, to replace Bhutan, Delhi stepped in as host of the Games.

Just don't think of doing it during the 2012 Olympics, should New York City win the right to serve as host of the Games.

Samoa, host of the next Games, has selected three athletes to represent the nation in three sports athletics, boxing and swimming.

Being host of the Games offers a city the chance to develop needed projects that would ordinarily take much longer to complete.

China's willingness to serve as host of the Games and offer itself up to considerable scrutiny and potential ridicule is significant.

Cambodia will be the host of the 2021 Southeast Asian Games.

The selection to be the host of the Games is seen as a blessing, but it is more of a curse.

Los Angeles learned a thing or two about Olympic hospitality as host of the Games four summers ago.

The city is one of five finalists to be host of the 2012 Games, to be chosen in July 2005.