Applications: Rome is Hamburg’s rival for Olympia 2024 – Hamburger Evening Gazette

15/12/14, 12:04 pm

… when the Hanseatic city succeeds in the domestic game against Berlin. The Romans give yourself at the Olympics in 2024 confidently: “We compete to win.”

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Rome / Hamburg. Germany 2024 gets first competition from Europe in the bid to host the Summer Olympics. Italy announced Monday his candidacy with the capital Rome for the games in ten years known. This was announced by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at an event at the National Olympic Committee of Italy (CONI) in Rome. “We do not want to be there, but to win,” Renzi said. “The Italian government is willing to do their part,” added the 39-year-old.

Germany applies either Berlin or Hamburg to the 2024 Games the decision of the German candidates is due in March 2015. There are also discussed applications from the United States, Paris, Istanbul, Budapest, Doha and South Africa. In the race for the 2020 Games Rome had withdrawn his candidacy for financial reasons. The host of the Games 204 is elected at the General Assembly of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the summer of 2017 in Lima.

2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio of Janeiro 2020 in Tokyo. The applicants competing for the Olympic Games in 2024 between Berlin and Hamburg, the majority of Germans Berlin acknowledges the significant improvement opportunities. In a representative survey conducted by pollster YouGov while 48 percent of respondents said that the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) will decide in mid-March for Berlin.

Only 28 percent see The Hanseatic city forward. One in three (32 percent) admits two candidates in the international competition for 2024 equal opportunities a.

Olympia is in their own country and remains for the majority of Germans an attractive sporting event. 57 percent of respondents were generally in alignment for the Olympic Games in the country. One in four (24 percent) holds, however, nothing of a German Olympic bid. The survey was commissioned by the German Press Agency dpa.

Summer Olympic Games took place in Germany so far taken only twice, in Berlin in 1936 and in Munich in 1972.

 
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