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in 2016
The clock is ticking down to the decision day. It will not be long before
the host city of the 2016 Olympic Games will be announced worldwide.
On 2 October 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) will vote which city of the world will be given the
honour and the responsibility to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
presentation brochure.
The 2008 Beijing Games have come and
gone, and the eyes of elite sportsmen and
women have shifted from east to west, with
London 2012 now their next ultimate sporting
objective. But sports officials are looking even
further ahead, as organising an Olympic Games
requires more than a four-year Olympic cycle.
It can easily take ten years between the time a
comprehensive and viable Olympic bid begins
to be compiled and the time it is evaluated,
voted upon and finally implemented in the
lead-up to one of the most publicised events
in the world.
Four cities are running for the 2016 Games:
Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Madrid (ESP), Tokyo (JPN)
and Chicago (USA). Of these cities, only Tokyo
has ever hosted the Games before, in 1964.
But the countries that these cities represent,
apart from Brazil, have all hosted the Summer
Games at least once: the USA, four times
(St Louis 1904, Los Angeles 1932, Los Angeles
1984 and Atlanta 1996); Spain, once (Barcelona
1992); and, of course, Japan. If Rio de Janeiro
was to be chosen, it would be the first time
South America would welcome the Games to
its soil. As the bids all meet IOC technical >
