Premiership of Tony Blair which was an agreement to increase British contributions to the EU Development Budget for new member countries, which effectively reduced the UK rebate by 20% . On 6 July 2005, during the 117th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Singapore, the IOC announced that the 2012 Summer Olympics, the Games of the XXX Olympiad, were awarded to London over Paris by only four votes. The competition between Paris and London to host the Games had become increasingly heated particularly after French President Jacques Chirac commented three days before the vote that "one cannot trust people [ie: the British] whose cuisine
Olympic House sports. On 11 July 2005, Jacques Rogge, The Chairman of International Olympic Committee, and Timothy Fok, the Chairman of Olympic Committee held the Olympic House Opening Ceremony. The IOC has permitted the use of the official emblem of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Olympic Games. This event means that Hong Kong will host the equestrian events at the Hong Kong Sports Institute in Fo Tan, Sha Tin and be one of the Olympic Cities in the world. Olympic House The Hong Kong Olympic House (), originally named Sports House (). The House is in the Hong Kong Stadium, So Kon