GamesBids
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GamesBids.com is an Olympic bid news and information web site created in Toronto, Canada, by Robert Livingstone.
The goal of the site, which was originally named Torontosummergames.com, was to follow the bid by the city of Toronto to organize the Games of the XXIXth Olympiad in 2008. After Beijing was eventually elected to host the Olympic Games, the site continued to operate, generally addressing and analysing the overall Olympic bid business.
The site publishes and regularly updates the BidIndex, an Olympic bid rating system in which the relative strength of the different bids and their chances of succeeding is measured. The BidIndex was correct when it predicted Beijing, though wrong with Vancouver and London.
The site has also been the source of a few scoops, for instance when one of the forum members discovered the trademark filing of the Beijing 2008 logo, providing the information before it was due to be released to the public.
Many international websites, newspapers, and news stations have mentioned Gamesbids in connection to the Olympic Movement, for instance the International Herald Tribune [1]. It is the only dedicated Olympic bid publication known.
