2012 Olympic Games go to Great Britain

London was named the host of the 2012 Olympics Wednesday, beating out Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York.\nThe final vote for the winner of the Games of the 30th Olympiad was a contest between Paris and London, after three preliminary rounds "voted out" the other three cities. London barely won the vote by a count of 54 to 50.\n"The IOC members made their choice based on not only the presentations made today by the delegation from Paris, New York, Moscow, London and Madrid, but also the detailed report by the IOC Evaluation Commission, chaired by Nawal El Moutawakel," according to an IOC press release.\nThe announcement was made Wednesday in Singapore.\nNew York was eliminated after the second round of voting. Madrid won that round, only to see its lead diminish after New York voters split between London and Paris in the third and penultimate set of votes.