of the Olympic project and promised the same conditions of accessibility and sporting performances. It became a consensus within the IPC that Sydney was the only viable bid, and in an unprecedented move, the 94 National Paralympic Committees at the 10th IPC Executive Board Session held in Berlin, Germany, unanimously awarded them the hosting rights by acclaimation. Sydney was chosen as host for the XI Summer Paralympics on 11 September 1993, 12 days before the city was also chosen by the IOC to host the 2000 Summer Olympics. The official announcement was delayed until 4 days after the IOC decision due to the IPC being an interested party in the Olympic selection process, therefore opening the possibility of the IPC'S selection to interfere with that of the IOC. This also gave the IPC the opportunity to renegotiate with the Olympic host city had the IOC selected an alternate bid. Given the separate processes, the Paralympic Bid Committee led had to wait until the end of 1993 to sign the host city contract, with clear conditions given to Sydney that negotiations with Manchester would be initiated if the contract was not signed by the end of the year. Guarantees were also sought around the financial security of the games, and these were fulfilled following several rounds of negotiations between the Federal Government of Australia and the Government of the State of New South Wales. This was the last time to date that the Paralympics host city was chosen in a process that was not linked to the Olympic Games. Starting with the 2004 Summer Games, the IOC demanded that host city applicants submitted their plans to host the Paralymic Games as a part of their Olympic proposals. As it was selected as host at different moments, this was the last time in history that the Summer Olympics and Paralympics were organized by separate bodies, though administrative and financial decisions in all areas was jointly made, as the all common areas were the same. Six years later when hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics. Turin, Italy had to separate the organization of the two events when there were 6 months left for the opening of the Paralympics for financial reasons. Background to the Bid Process Context before the Games There are several similarities between the 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics. The first is that the Organizing Committees of the