SINGAPORE, Monday, July 4 - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg arrived here early Sunday for his final push to win the 2012 Summer Games, his Falcon private jet delivering him far from the fallout of the reports of a bias attack in Howard Beach, Queens, that had threatened to divide his city and keep him home. But the situation remained calm enough for him to pursue his Olympic dream to its conclusion.
Singapore, a tidy city-state, is on the other side of the globe from homogenous Howard Beach, and culturally, it is another universe. With a mix of Malaysians, Chinese and Indians on a regular day, it became a virtual United Nations over the weekend, as representatives of scores of nations arrived for a final round of lobbying before the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday decides the location of the 2012 Games.
Mr. Bloomberg's schedule switched from the intensive round of meetings with New York City community leaders after the Howard Beach beating to an equally intensive round of talks with as many delegates from as many countries as he could meet with here - though in the high style of the island's luxury hotels and restaurants.
The mayor arrived here after 3 a.m. on Sunday, after stops in Los Angeles, Honolulu and Guam. He put in a round of golf with his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, during the day before returning to his room at the Swissôtel after a long session on a treadmill, an apparent salve for the jet lag that is a regular topic of discussion among Americans here.
Singapore travel is not new to Mr. Bloomberg, who once had an office here. And as many of his compatriots fought fatigue in the early evening - which to their bodies was the early morning - Mr. Bloomberg attended a cocktail party for supporters of New York's bid at the Ritz-Carlton, accompanying one of them, the former gymnast Nadia Comaneci to the hotel, where they walked a gantlet of smiling hotel workers who greeted them at the hotel's front door.
He chatted and posed for pictures with current and former Olympic athletes - the swimmer Ian Thorpe, the figure skater Oksana Baiul - and private donors in a hotel restaurant where guests sipped cocktails and ate sushi as a woman in a Statue of Liberty costume strolled around.
The Statue of Liberty character was with the mayor again on Monday morning, when he gave a news conference at which he presented a relentlessly positive front, playing the city's alternative plan for a stadium in the wake of the state's failure to approve his plan for one on the West Side as a comeback story.
"You saw us like an athlete who fell and got back up," he said, adding, "New York's here to win."