New York deputy mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff said here on Tuesday New York could deliver a "unique" Olympic Games in 2012 if it wins the bid.

Along with New York, Moscow, Madrid, Paris and London now are bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Doctoroff, who is in the Chinese capital attending the Athens Games debriefing, said New York is a "unique" city and shares the same values of the Olympic Movement.

"We recognize that we are competing with four other great cities, but we think New York is unique.

"New York is a special place. It might be the best place for people from around the world to come and achieve their goals. The competition is fair. That's what the Olympic Games are about, and that's what New York is about," he said.

The Athens Games debriefing, which started Sunday and runs through Wednesday, serves as a forum to exchange Games experiences between Athens organizers, their counterparts from Beijing, Turin and Vancouver, and the five bid cities of the 2012 Olympics as well.

Doctoroff said the debriefing was indeed helpful to New York's bid.

"The IOC has done a wonderful job, allowing future host cities to learn from previous experiences. There's no way to learn better than observing another city that has done successfully," he said.

The fact that Atlanta hosted the Olympics in 1996 is viewed by some people as a disadvantage for New York, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is unlikely to award the Olympic Games twice to the same country in such a short period of time.

But Doctoroff believed the interval should not be an obstacle and New York is different from Atlanta in many aspects.

"First of all, it's been 16 years from 1996 when Atlanta hosted the Olympics to 2012 when we hope to host the games. That's a fairly long period of time.

"America is a very big country, and there's big distances between Atlanta and New York.

"A more important point is New York is unique, one of the greatest cities of the world ... It's not like other cities in the United States. In fact, many people in the Unite States don't

even think it's been really a part of the United States," said Doctoroff.

According to Doctoroff, New York also enjoys the support of most of its citizens in the Olympic bid.

"Consistently, three out of four or four out of five New Yorkers have been in favor of hosting the Olympic Games. New Yorkers see in the Olympic Games a reflection of New York. They see the very same things played out over those 17 days occurring everyday in New York," he said.

The IOC will choose the host city for the 2012 Games at its 117th session in July next year in Singapore.