SINGAPORE: It is a national monument, the jewel in Singapore's crown, and this week Raffles Hotel will become a bubbling cauldron of lobbying and politics as the city state stages the most keenly-contested Olympic venue vote in the history of the Games.
Its Colonial-style salons and parlours will be overrun by bid officials and consultants, celebrities and spin-doctors as London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris scrap for every last vote in the race to stage the 2012 Games.
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