Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics

Seven cities complaint to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) an application for the implementation of the 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2016. Applications for Azerbaijan Baku, Doha Qatar and Prague for the Czech Republic have not been approved in June 2008 for the final selection. While Prague has applied to host the Olympic Summer Games, it was for Baku and Doha, the first application in history. For all three it would have been the first Summer Games of the country. Reasons for not considering for example, were the lack of infrastructure and the geographical proximity to Sochi, host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Azerbaijani application and the high temperatures in the Persian Gulf during the summer months in the Qatari application. In Prague, they went himself assumes that the application has no chance ( "It's 99% sure that the game will not take place in Europe in 2016 ," said Pavel Bem, the mayor of Prague. ) The application presented rather a test run for a successful application dar. regarding the Games in 2020 or 2024

The approval for the final decision to the venue received on 4 June 2008, the American city of Chicago, the Spanish Madrid, the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and the Japanese Tokyo.

• 2.1 Chicago
• 2.2 Madrid
• 2.3 Rio de Janeiro
• 2.4 Tokyo

Application Process

For the 2016 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rang on May 16, 2007, the application period. View all 203 National Olympic Committees were invited to submit a bid. By the end of the application period on 13 September 2007 ranged seven cities a their complete documentation to the IOC.

Choice of venue

The members of the IOC decided on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, that Rio de Janeiro to the Olympic Games will be in 2016. In the first two ballots, the submissions from Chicago and Tokyo dropped out with the fewest votes each. As the venue was at 18:50 clock Rio de Janeiro, with the promulgation of the hall, officially. The detailed results were published immediately thereafter:

Overview of Nominations

Chicago

Chicago sat in a U.S. domestic application process against the applications from Houston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco by. After the USOC had confirmed his intention to the orientation of the Summer Games on 9 January 2007, the members of Chicago voted on 14 April 2007 on official candidate. It would have been the fifth time that the Olympic Games are taking place in the United States, most recently this was in Atlanta in 1996.

Madrid

Madrid 's first application for the Olympic Games in 1972, but ultimately went to Munich. For 2012, we launched a second attempt, the city of difference in an extremely close election against Paris and the eventual winners London. On 6 June 2006, Madrid competed for the Games in 2016 and on 30 May 2007 confirmed the Spanish Olympic Committee 's candidacy. Due to the fact that the Games in 1992 in Barcelona took place on Spanish soil and also the Summer Games were awarded in 2012 to the European city of London, Madrid were given little chance. On the other hand, received the nomination but in the technical evaluation of the IOC in June 2008, the second- best overall score (8.2 ), just behind Tokyo ( 8.4 ) and clearly in Chicago ( 7) and Rio de Janeiro (6.4 ). In addition, the Spanish ex- IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch was very influential.

Rio de Janeiro

The Brazilian Olympic Committee nominated on September 1, 2006, the coastal town of Rio de Janeiro. This had already applied for the Summer Games in 2004 and 2012, but failed both times in the pre-selection of official candidate cities by the IOC. The chances of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games, however, improved, since there 2007 Pan American Games took place and in the process many also needed for Olympic Games sporting venues such as an athletics stadium ( João Havelange Stadium ), a gymnasium for basketball and gymnastics ( Rio Olympic Arena), a swimming stadium ( Maria Lenk Aquatic Parc) and a velodrome for track cycling, emerged. The decision of the IOC see the Olympic Games held for the first time in South America, which was an advantage over European, Asian and North American candidate cities.

Tokyo

Tokyo was originally scheduled to host the Olympic Games in 1940, but did not take place because of the Second World War. Tokyo then hosted the Olympic Games in 1964. In a nationwide internal vote, the Japanese capital sat on 30 August 2006 against their competitors, the port city of Fukuoka, by. Tokyo received in June 2008 by the IOC, the best score of all candidates (8.4 ).