Heads of state from Japan, Brazil, the United States and Spain will attend an International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting next year to decide on the host city of the 2016 Games, the four bidders said on Saturday.
Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro have made the shortlist with a decision set for October 2009 at an IOC session in Copenhagen.
In a rare joint appearance on Saturday, hoping to cash in on the media publicity shortly before the end of the Beijing Olympics, bid leaders said they enjoyed full support from their governments.
Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro are the cities shortlisted by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
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