WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton will attend next week's announcement in Singapore for the 2012 Olympics bid as part of a U.S. delegation.

    Hillary, wife of former US President Bill Clinton and now a senator from the state of New York, has been invited to the delegation that includes Muhammad Ali and dozens of other athletes.

    "It is an honor to accept Mayor Bloomberg's invitation," she said in a statement. As first lady, Clinton chaired the 1994 delegation to the Winter Games in Lillehammer.

    Polls have shown both Clintons are popular around the world, and former President Clinton has spent much of 2005 working to raise relief money for victims of the tsunami that struck Asia late last year.

    New York is running against Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow. Enditem