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Big Apple’s Olympic bid Organizers of New York City’s bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics have already planned where they’d put venues. See illustrations of what they have in mind.

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The USOC counts on bringing the Olympics to the country on a regular basis. Hosting the games boosts the Olympic movement on home soil and brings in big sponsorship revenues.

The majority of international Olympic sponsors are U.S.-based corporations, and NBC provides the bulk of the IOC’s television revenues.

The United States has hosted the Olympics four times since 1980 — Winter Games in Lake Placid (1980) and Salt Lake City (2002), and Summer Games in Los Angeles (1984) and Atlanta (1996).

Doctoroff, the deputy mayor who has spent 10 years on the 2012 project, is reluctant to give up. He has repeatedly told IOC members that New York would secure the stadium project, but now has nothing to show for it.

“We have told people that we’ll deliver,” he said in an interview last week. “We’ve got to make sure we deliver.”

The uncertainty can’t drag on much longer.

Bid cities are due to submit responses Monday to the IOC evaluation report released this week. The report gave New York a generally positive review, but cited the lack of guarantees for the stadium and other concerns. Front-runner Paris got the best overall assessment.

Doctoroff and the other 2012 bid leaders are due to attend an African Olympic assembly next week in Ghana, where the cities will give their last major presentations before Singapore.

New York’s withdrawal from the race would leave an all-European contest. London believes it would benefit by picking up support from New York backers.

“I would say they have to stay in the race,” senior IOC member Dick Pound of Canada said. “Walking away at D-day minus three weeks is not a good message for the United States. It’s better to go out with your guns blazing.”