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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2026Contact: Jeffrey G. Nutt, JD
The Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee (DUOOC) today urges eight leading Michigan families to immediately take three clear steps as champions of Metro Detroit’s Olympic bid: 1) Issue a joint public endorsement for the bid they lead, 2) Contribute resources if possible, and 3) Mobilize their influence to build wide-ranging support. The committee formally invites these families to be visible and active partners, driving and promoting Metro Detroit’s Olympic effort. Backed by respected leaders and guided by  wisdom from the organization and use of knowledge, the DUOOC applies best practices to Olympic bids. Advisors who previously asserted Detroit’s Olympic potential stand with this call to action.
In 2012, the writer met the architect of the Atlanta Olympic Village, who had worked for one of Georgia’s leading families, the Portmans, involved in Atlanta’s Olympic bid. John Portman designed Detroit’s Ren Cen, commissioned by Henry Ford II. Scholars suggested more recently that the tallest towers could be the Towers of Talent of the Americas for global talent and an Olympic Village.
In 2012, John Portman reintroduced Jeffrey G. Nutt to Ambassador Young, who provided insights on Atlanta’s bid. Following Atlanta’s model, the DUOOC submitted a 62-page 2024 bid, co-signed by Troy’s Mayor Dane Slater.
Before Metro Detroit’s 2024 Olympics bid, Ambassador Young stressed that Atlanta succeeded partly through long-standing cooperation between Black and business leaders. He said US Olympic host regions often benefit financially, attract more visitors, and grow from hosting the Games. 
The DUOOC calls on Michigan’s leading families and the broader community to unite and take the following actions: publicly endorse Metro Detroit’s Olympic bid, actively support it, and advocate for making Metro Detroit’s Olympic vision a reality. The committee emphasizes the importance of commitment from all, encouraging immediate participation in advancing this once-in-a-generation opportunity for our region’s global future.    

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Click on above Bid Themes tab for a link to the 2024 Games bid dossier submitted on behalf of the Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee endorsed by a former Detroit area mayor Hon. Dane Slater, Attorney Jeffrey G. Nutt, JD, former NFL Player Dave M. Rayner, and former Ford Motor Company Historian Bob Kreipke, as well as the 501 (c)(3) online institute Advisory Board of The United Institute UnitedInstitute.org that participated in in the bid and later in forming the USA's first K-20 higher learning accreditor with a mind, body, and will performance ideal, consistent with American Olympism aaacom.org. Olympics.org defines Olympism as "a philosophy of life exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will, and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles." 

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W O R L D   V I C T O R Y   G A M E S™   B L O G

2026

By: Jeffrey G. Nutt, JD (313) 559-6833

For: Management, Education, Distribution, and Leadership (MEDAL) Teams

04/10/2026 Call for Eight (8) Prominent Michigan Families to Lead the Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee: Contact Jeffrey G. Nutt, JD (313) 559-6833 on Behalf of Community Organizers Paralympic Silver Medalist Tyler Merren, The United Institute President and former US Army JAG Attorney Francis O. Wey, Para-Athlete Bradley Lucas, former NASA Consultant and United Nations International Women's Day Speaker Sharon V. Frisco, PhD, and former NFL Player David M. Rayner. 

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The views and opinions expressed in the following World Victory Games Blog entries may not necessarily reflect the view of the past, current, or prospective leadership of the DUOOC / Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games.

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Metro Detroit: World-Class Sporting and Cultural Destination After Olympic Bids
After Detroit was named first runner-up in highly competitive Olympic first runner-up bids for both the 1964 Tokyo and 1968 Mexico City Games, Metro Detroit went on to demonstrate its global appeal by hosting MLB World Series Games, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, and NBA World Championships, as well as two Super Bowls and the world’s first indoor World Cup match.
Building on this history, Cesar Simborth Escudero, a University of Michigan Master of Urban Design graduate, notes that Detroit's resurgence could place it among three types of cities worldwide that have hosted the Olympics in the past 65 years—if it adapts its development plans accordingly. For example, Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games, which were fully funded by global TV and US national sponsors. Atlanta’s Olympics brought billions in infrastructure and sparked regional growth, with the population increasing from around 500,000 in the 1960s to over 6,000,000 today. Earlier, Los Angeles hosted the commercially successful 1984 Olympics, which led to the City Council's unanimous endorsement of the LA 2024 bid that culminated in LA 2028.  
Continuing Detroit’s momentum, since 2017, the city has featured the country’s most walkable cluster of downtown professional sports venues, with NFL and MLB stadia side by side just a block from the NBA and NHL arena. Over many decades, the region evolved into a global hub for scholarly talent. For example, each year more than 3,000 Fulbright scholars are awarded from over 100 countries, and Michigan institutions are among the top-ranked sending and receiving Fulbright grantees, including one school where the most successful medalist in Olympic history trained, the University of Michigan. In 2019, a Metro Detroit day exemplified how exciting Detroit can be for global visitors.
On 05/24/2019, visiting international students and US friends networked at a Metro Detroit forum sponsored by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Fulbright alumni colleagues, including several DUOOC colleagues, hosted a day filled with custom tours of Tri-County's city and suburban landmarks. Excursions throughout the day included car cruises, a River Boat ride, a Riverwalk, and a People Mover ride. The day’s car caravan, featuring participants from two US states and many nations, began at the Michigan State Police Oak Park site before continuing to Southfield, Dearborn, and Detroit. The afternoon car cruise then extended to Rivertown, Lakeshore Drive, Nautical Mile, Metro Parkway, and Troy. For an image of the hosts and youth of many nations, copy the link below into a browser, or skip to the remainder of the story:    

https://uniteduniversity.org/page28/fulbrightunited.html

The Story Behind the Detroit Princess Riverboat Forum Image in the Above Link: The Forum with Scholars and Friends from every major world region on 25 May 2019, Detroit Princess Riverboat  immediately followed a walk through the grounds of the Henry Ford Estate following a drive, with narration by an award-winning engineer and a music by a Fulbright, past local international gathering places for visiting international dignitaries including a Prime Minister who spoke in a peaceful edifice resembling hands pressed together (not pictured). Those in the image are pictured on the Riverboat traversing the waters beneath towers of the GM Ren Cen and Detroit Marriott, the 2nd tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere, across from Windsor, Ontario. 

The Story the Day of the Detroit Princess Riverboat Forum Image in the Above Link, Part I: International participants disembarked beside Detroit's world-renowned annual electronic music festival walking to the International Memorial to the Underground Railroad between gateway pillars on the Detroit River, a U.S. National Heritage River. Continuing on the Detroit RiverWalk -- later expanded and ranked as the #1 best river walk in the nation by USA Today in 2021 -- Forum walkers discovered a plaza monumental engraving of a map of the world overlooking Ontario and Michigan skylines with bridges and underwater tunnels for the busiest international land border crossing on the world's longest open international border. 

The Story the Day of the Detroit Princess Riverboat Forum Image in the Above Link, Part II: Also, on 25 May 2019, consistent with the Olympic spirit blending culture and movement, the Forum experience continued thru the GM Ren Cen Winter Garden reaching the People Mover driverless train station for a 15-minute circuit around Downtown overlooking high rises and an angular view of Ford Field and Comerica Park which hosted Super Bowl and World Series championships. With Little Ceasars Arena, ranked in 2019 as one of the 5 busiest buildings in the world, the major professional sports venues are said to be USA's most pedestrian-friendly sporting venues. 

The Story the Day of the Detroit Princess Riverboat Forum Image in the Above Link, Part III: The Forum continued with a narrated trip on the afternoon of 25 May 2019 past a Tunnel to Canada to a) Grosse Pointe Lakeshore Drive and Nautical Mile to Freedom Hill Amphitheater, where U.S. Presidents 43 and 45 spoke next door to fields for 1,000 youth soccer players, to b) pass the News and Free Press complex, and to c) an evening walk thru a moving skywalk to bid visiting internationals Farewell in the atrium of Somerset Collection's 1 million sq. feet of luxury retail, the largest upscale mall between New York City and Chicago with 140 shops and eateries.

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TO WELCOME THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD TO THE GAMES

COMPILED 2020 - 2026

One U.S. city bid 7 times to host the Olympics, Detroit, and the most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, trained 35 minutes from the city in Ann Arbor. There, Michigan Stadium also has provided 107,000+ seats for extraordinary athletic competitions. On the Detroit River, annual hydroplane 200-mile-per-hour boat racing and Grand Prix auto racing along the world's largest urban island park, Belle Isle State Park, offers spectacular views from a common route for the world's only  international marathon with an underwater mile. The youth of the world have been welcomed for decades to these competitions and would be welcomed to Olympics at the Midwest U.S. city in North America's largest megalopolis of 60 million people spanning the St. Lawrence Seaway-Great Lakes corridor.  

A global business technology, sport, culture, music, and motorsports hub, Detroit would be an ideal city to host the Olympics according to Ambassador Andrew Young who orchestrated the bid for Atlanta 1996 Olympics held a mere 12 years after LA 1984. For the reasons cited here, Detroit and 3 other key USA cities can have a decisive positive impact on LA 2028, possibly strengthening Olympic ideals to make LA 2028 more inclusive than ever. The host city for the 2040 Olympics will be chosen by IOC in 2029. 

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THINK OLYMPISM AMERICA!
2020 to 2026
The Detroit United Olympic Organizing Committee, part of the One University of the Americas Fund (DBA of Christ University Fund), honors Christ Church, the largest college at Oxford University in England, where Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile. The committee promotes fitness, education, and Olympism—a philosophy of life that emphasizes the balanced development of body, will, and mind—and invites you to join our mission today.
Once in a great while, a bold idea comes along for an open educational innovation with a mind-body health/fitness twist. Introducing America's first K-20 higher learning accreditor with a mind-body-will performance ideal, improving quality and affordability with online affiliate national board-certified multi-course certificates, aaacom.org
Educational resources permitting, the accreditor consortium of institutes with an academic partner that trained millions of learners could expand early college bachelor’s degree completion in business, management, leadership, and IT, with hundreds of national board-certified courses and active learning.
Positive stories and positive outcomes from an accreditor, aaacom.org, and its consortium of affiliates, UnitedInstitute.org, UnitedUniversity.org, NiceaTech.org, portend real potential for public and private multi-state micro-campuses for supervised cohort learning and small-group active learning, which will promote culture, confidence, and acceptance. Enhanced health/fitness credit enriches an affordable 90-credit bachelor's degree by age 18 and skills-based training.
Students of Olympism, under supervision, can help build high-tech, local micro-campus college halls annexed to school boards across America. Many opportunities exist in the skilled trades.
Except in medical disciplines, there may be no need for a minimum age requirement for supervised dual-enrolled learners in early college and Title I/magnet schools. Training with Olympism can cultivate mind-body balance enhanced with the will for integrity, inner strength, service, leadership, and character.  
Graduate education could become more affordable and improve in quality by adopting Olympism principles. Pending approvals, some advanced US degrees could be completed 15% to 25% faster with active health and fitness learning. In many advanced countries, top schools offer professional degrees with fewer credits than the US norms. As a result, their graduates can qualify for US or state licensing exams sooner, enabling them to enter well-paid US jobs more quickly. Olympism could expand educational and career opportunities in America.