2020 Summer Olympics / Games of the XXXII Olympiad bids

[rodem]

[isaidso]

Hosting the Olympics is the last thing Italy or Spain should be concentrating on.

[Dimethyltryptamine]

Hosting the Olympics might be just what Italy or Spain needs to restore confidence in their economies, and pull their unemployment rates out of the hole. Many people said much the same thing about South Africa hosting the World Cup...

[venki04ss]

[QUOTE=Apple1;79645810]Hey guys,

Im for Toronto, lets be Canadians a real city, almost the only one in Canada (with Vancouver)

:-)

THUMB UPS Canadian Bid .. after South Africa pulled out Toronto emerge strong contender candidate. Casablanca, Doha, Tokyo - Dark Horse.

No one interest vote Olympics return to Europe (Madrid and Rome). It is just one year after London Olympics 2012. Bid Election's in 2013.

[Solopop]

Rome or Tokyo should win, most deserving cities.

[Lord David]

Deserving? How? One could argue (like any future Melbourne bid), that they should not host because they already have (albeit in the past several decades ago) and should let someone else have a go.

[olympic8]

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A dozen cities in different latitudes and cultures of the world at one time expressed interest in running to host the 2020 Olympics. Of course not all able to channel this idea, many will go by the wayside and only a select group of them can move to the final cut. You do not need the most ambitious project, the budget bulkier or larger delegation to keep the seat. This influence from geopolitical factors alliances to personal interests and passion and of course the grand interest to swell their coffers IOC in Lausanne.

Olympics beyond being the biggest sporting event in the world are also an event that is full profit and prestige. Why the most powerful cities in the world to contest the seat.

With the exception of Madrid and Rome who already have their own place in the contest, on which cities have generated the greatest expectations for the 2020 event are: Istanbul, Tokyo and Busan.

[NewsPP]

Istanbul! Firm's headquarters in 2020. It was the turn to the Turks.

[Mr Equis]

Monterrey, hehehehe

[NewsPP]

Originally Posted by Mr Equis

Monterrey, hehehehe

Hehehe ... that sense of humor you friend ... the Olympic Games over there are very, very far from done. But you know if you heard that rumor, even Lima (Peru) will also be competing.

[Dimethyltryptamine]

Paris, please

[Lord David]

Lima? Bah. They have to win a Pan Ams first. And how will they upgrade their National Stadium to 60,000? Add more balcony seats? :P

[guy4versa4]

paris,tokyo or doha

[PortoNuts]

Capitoline Venus loan to National Gallery of Art aids Rome’s Olympic push

Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno, has a dream - the Summer Olympics in the Italian capital in 2020. To that end, he has opened an energetic campaign to raise Rome’s global profile, using one of the city’s most powerful assets: its past.

This week in Washington, Mr. Alemanno launched a two-year project to dispatch some of the greatest sculptures of Roman antiquity to cities in the United States. “The Dream of Rome: The Eternal Masterpieces in the United States, 2011-2013,” opened Wednesday when the Capitoline Venus went on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art.

All the works are from the collection in the Capitoline Museum, the city’s treasury of ancient Roman sculpture, statuary and artifacts. At a time when museums and collectors are reluctant to lend prize possessions abroad because of soaring air freight and insurance costs and security concerns, the museum plans to ship about a dozen of its best known pieces to institutions in several U.S. cities.

For example, the 17th-century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s dramatic Head of Medusa, with its marble coiffure of writhing snakes, will be shown in San Francisco; and the Spinario, the second- century B.C. bronze of a seated young boy extracting a thorn from his left foot, is destined for Philadelphia.

The sculpture campaign was necessary, Mr. Alemanno explained as he dug into an American breakfast of bacon and eggs in the Jockey Club of Washington’s Fairfax Hotel, because Italy has had a lot of bad press lately. In large part this was “because of [Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi’s problems,” said Mr. Alemanno, who is pinning great hopes on “The Dream of Rome” being an image-changer.

Rumors of Mr. Berlusconi’s sex drive have been public knowledge ever since he first launched himself into politics in Italy in 1994, but Italians have been willing to give him a lot of leeway as the only post-World War II prime minister to serve out his five-year term (2001-2006). He could well complete a second full term, and Italians have come to regard his ability to stay in office as a sign of their country’s political maturity.

But the 74-year-old prime minister’s proclivities now have him in legal hot water. In an ongoing (very slow) trial he is accused of paying an underage nightclub dancer for sex and later abusing his power in an attempt to cover it up. If found guilty, he could face a 15-year prison sentence, but with his track record for dodging legal bullets, it’s a big if.

Mr. Alemanno, who belongs to Mr. Berlusconi’s right-of-center People of Freedom Party, blames the Italian left for blowing up the allegations for partisan gain - “those in the left are choking with frustration at their constant failure to have any impact politically,” he said. But he admits that the scandal has harmed Italy’s global image.

So the Capitoline Venus has stirred for the first time from the niche where she has stood, admired but undisturbed, for nearly 200 years and crossed the Atlantic to help win for her city the coveted Olympic prize. Until Sept. 5, the 6-foot-tall marble statue of a nude, looking as though she has been surprised coming out of the shower and ever so casually covering her private parts, has a temporary American home in the center of the National Gallery rotunda.

The statue was excavated from the buried ruins of an ancient building in Rome in the 1670s and given to the Capitoline Museum by Pope Benedict XIV in 1752. The only other time the statue has moved from the museum was when the victorious Emperor Napoleon took it to Paris as spoils of war in 1797. (It was returned in 1816 after Napoleon was defeated and exiled.)

Mr. Alemanno’s campaign using Capitoline masterpieces is targeting other countries besides the U.S. For example, the Spinario is currently on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. But he said American support of Rome’s candidacy “is fundamental.”

“The Dream of Rome” project comes to an end on Sept 9, 2013, when the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Buenos Aires, will vote to decide on the host city for 2020. It’s also when Mr. Alemanno is up for re-election as mayor, as is Mr. Berlusconi for prime minister.

But that may change. Mr. Alemanno, 43, confirmed reports that he is one of the younger generation of politicians who could succeed Mr. Berlusconi if the latter decides (or is persuaded) not to run again. Still, Mr. Alemanno says the decision on Mr. Berlusconi’s successor will be a complex one “involving many people.”

As for Mr. Berlusconi himself, he would continue to be involved with the party he founded as its “father figure” - which, with his reputation, seems an improbable role.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...e-olympic-bid/

[D.E]

I'd like the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted by an eastern-european city. IMHO the most probable bids from Easter Europe are Saint Petersburg or Yekaterinburg, Warsaw, Baku, Budapest and Istanbul. Kiev and Zagreb may bid for 2024 games.

If Budapest, Saint Petersburg or Yekaterinburg bid, they'll be my favourites.

Saint Petersburg will probably bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, Governor Valentina Matviyenko has announced an intention to bid, having discussed the plan with the head of the ROC. The city with a population of more than 4 million people is developing rapidly. Transport problems and other infrastructure problems that exist in St.P will be solved by 2018 when it will be one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a new 70,000-seat stadium. The city is served by 5 railway terminals and Pulkovo International Airport, which handles more than 8 million people each year. Saint Petersburg has international railway connections to Finland, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries as well as to most cities of Russia.

Yekaterinburg will probably bid for 2020 or 2024 Summer Olympic games. It's a developing city with a population of more than 1,5 million people. Yekaterinburg is going to bid for the Expo-2020 which shows that the city has got great ambitions. A stadium with a capacity of about 50,000 seats will be built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. There are no transport problems in Yekaterinburg. Koltsovo International Airport, which handles nearly 3 million passengers each year, is situated some 15 km southeast of the city. The city’s metro is highly developed. Currently the metro system of Yekaterinburg includes only 1 line/7 stations, but another 4 stations will be opened in 2011-2012 and the second line will be constructed with 9 stations in 2012-2013. By 2018 the number of lines is planned to raise to 3, and the number of stations to 29.

Budapest is the most probable city from Eastern Europe to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic games. It's population is nearly 2 million people. The Ferenc Liszt International airport which serves 8 million people each year is very close to the city. It has a great metro system which is the second-oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground and is a World Heritage Site. Budapest has already bid for the Olympic Games five times.

[Lord David]

St. Petersburg bid for the 2004 Games but didn't make the cut (They produced their candidate books, as was the custom at the time, but was eliminated by the IOC during the IOC's report (and presumably after visiting the city)).

Isn't 2020 a little too soon for any Russian bid anyways? What with Sochi and all? Wait until after Sochi and bid for 2024, The Sochi 2014 games, should they be a success will be a major factor into people and the IOC wanting to come back to Russia again for an Olympics.

[DimitriB]

It was difficult to make a choice, but I voted for Casablanca.
Reason : I has to be a city from Africa, North America, Asia or Oceania, because 2012 London (Europe) and 2016 Rio (South America).
So there was left Tokyo, Busan, Doha, Delhi, Toronto, Dubai and Casablanca and because there's never been a african city that hosted the olympics, I choose Casablanca.
It's a nice city, much room to build the venues, nice wheater in summer and Morocco is progressive country.

[Lord David]

Very few cities and nations have won an Olympics on the first try. Casablanca would have to make a strong compelling bid to win over the IOC. It will be much easier now that Durban isn't bidding or any other South African city. I won't be surprised if another African city were to put up it's hands now that they know that SA isn't bidding.

[Galandar]

I voted for Istanbul

[Solopop]

Rome, I mean a world famous sporting city, came second in 2004, and has a great bid.

As does Madrid and Paris.