Potential Bids: dead or alive? 

As of July 2012, some potential bids on this article seem to be dead. At this time, serious candidates should be already engaged in preparing a bid: have a website, commitments at each political level, making a budget, hiring organizers... But now, some potential bids in the list look more like inconsequential announcements and do not show any sign of life since:

  Romania: nothing heard since 2007.

  Poland: nothing heard since 2010.

  Finland: no announcement, only a suggestion made during the 2010 Winter Games.

  Croatia: the vision of a architectural studio in 2011.

I suggest to delete them, unless someone could confirm that they are preparing a bid during 2012.