Stadium or bust for NYC Olympic bid

Daily News Wire Services
Posted: September 13, 2004

New York City will be forced to abandon its bid to host the 2012 Olympics if a deal is not reached soon on a $1.4 billion stadium for the New York Jets, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.

"If we were not to get the stadium going very soon, we will have to drop out of our bid for the Olympics," Bloomberg said before participating in the coin toss at the Jets' opener against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The plan calls for a $1.4 billion stadium built above a rail yard on Manhattan's far West Side. But the idea has met with opposition from neighborhood residents, local politicians and some civic groups.

The proposed stadium would house the Jets and anchor the city's bid for the Olympics. Under the proposal, the Jets would spend $800 million and the city and state would add $300 million each.

In other Olympic news:

* Twelve women's soccer teams will compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an increase of two from the Athens Games.

Auto Racing

* Rubens Barrichello won the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, beating world champion teammate Michael Schumacher.

* Adrian Fernandez beat Bryan Herta by 0.0716 seconds at the Delphi Indy 300 in Joliet, Ill., for his second victory in a month. Also, Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice is OK after a scary crash late in the race that sent his car skidding upside down along the track.

* Patrick Carpentier won the Bridgestone Grand Prix of Monterey (Calif.) for the second year in a row, beating Bruno Junqueira to the finish line by 5.395 seconds.

Baseball

* Rosie Gacioch, whose baseball experiences during the World War II era helped inspire the 1992 movie, "A League of Their Own," died at 89 in Clinton Township, Mich. *

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