11.   For those in Seattle wanting to take on an Olympic bid, think real hard.

12.   Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker filed a motion in Fulton County Superior Court on Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit over the sealed Atlanta Olympic bid records.

13.   He said there was no apparent evidence that the internship was connected to the Olympic bid.

14.   If Athens receives the Olympic bid, she would become the first woman to head an Olympic organizing committee.

15.   In fact, an Olympic bid need not be tied to a stadium there.

16.   International Olympic Committee officials also have promised to investigate questionable gifts and scholarships given to committee members by cities in previous Olympic bids.

17.   It is customary for Olympic bid cities to provide first-class airfare for IOC members and a guest when they make three-day inspection visits.

18.   It is unclear whether the vote in Geneva or the Olympic bid would be greatly affected by the ratification, which had been expected at some point this year.

19.   Kevin Hall, whose Olympic bid is shaded by his intake of testosterone to compensate for the cancer-related removal of his testicles, is in fourth place.

20.   Of course that would mean the head of our Olympic bid committee would have to be named Dorothy.