IOC Reveals 2020 Olympic Games Bidders: Madrid, Tokyo, Doha, Rome, Baku, Istanbul

Six cities are bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the announcement a few hours ago. The list of bidder cities for the 2020 Olympics include two who have hosted the Games before – Tokyo in 1964 and Rome in 1960 – and, surprisingly, has no city from the Americas. One of the bidders, Madrid, has lost three previous bids to host a Summer Olympic Games: first for 1972, which it lost to Munich; second for 2012, which was won by London; and most recently for 2016, which it lost to Rio de Janeiro in the final round of voting. Istanbul, meanwhile, has lost on four previous bids.

Check out the full press release announcing the six cities bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is pleased to announce that six cities have been put forward by their respective National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to apply to host the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in 2020. The cities, in alphabetical order, are: Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha (Qatar), Istanbul (Turkey), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy) and Tokyo (Japan).

NOCs had until 1 September 2011 to notify the IOC that a city within their jurisdiction was interested in applying. In addition, all of the above NOCs/cities complied with the newly introduced prerequisite criteria established by the IOC Executive Board (EB) in October 2010.

The six Applicant Cities will now proceed to Phase 1 of the IOC’s two-step procedure, which will lead to the election of the 2020 host city in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September 2013.

• Phase 1, known as the Candidature Acceptance Procedure, focuses on a technical review and the cities’ ability to host the Olympic Games in 2020. Cities are required to answer a questionnaire, and their answers are studied by the IOC. At the end of this first phase, the IOC EB selects the cities that will become Candidate Cities and therefore move on to Phase 2.

• Phase 2, known as the Candidature Procedure, concentrates on Games operational matters. Candidate Cities will be requested to submit their Candidature File – which is an in-depth description of their Olympic project – and will be subject to a technical assessment made by a visiting team – the IOC Evaluation Commission. The IOC Evaluation Commission’s appraisal will be published in a report and sent to the IOC members no later than one month before they cast their votes on 7 September 2013 and in time for the 2020 briefing for IOC Members. The report will also be available to the public on www.olympic.org.

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