Seven Cities In Frame For 2016 Olympics
All seven cities applying to host the 2016 Olympics have completed their candidature files by the International Olympic Committee’s deadline the governing body has stated.
Chicago (USA), Prague (Czech Republic), Tokyo (Japan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha (Qatar) and Madrid (Spain) – had until midnight on 14th January to submit their files to the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The application file, which marks the first phase in the procedure leading to the election of the host city of the Olympic Games in 2016, should, through the responses to the 25 questions asked and guarantees requested, provide the IOC with an overview of each applicant city’s project.
The responses will now be studied by an IOC-appointed working group and by the IOC Executive Board, the latter meeting in June to decide which cities will be accepted as candidates cities.
The cities selected as candidates will take part in an observer programme at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games this summer.
The election of the 2016 host city will take place in Copenhagen on 2nd October 2009.
