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• The IOC will choose the 2012 host city next July, and contingents from all five finalists were in Athens trying to win friends and votes. As the Games closed, the favorite was Paris (inset), which would hold beach volleyball next to the Eiffel Tower, with London, Madrid and New York City a notch below, and Moscow bringing up the rear.

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MAL LANGSDON/REUTERS (PARIS)