Building to bid or bidding to build?

Countries are lobbying for the honour of hosting the 2006 soccer World Cup, hoping to emulate the positive effect the 1998 event had on French sporting and social health. The symbol of the “tricolour” nation’s success was the Stade de France, but as the competition to host these events ...

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