Palermo eyes 2020 Games along with Rome, Venice 14/10/2009 |
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Palermo has expressed interest in hosting the 2020 Olympics along with fellow Italian cities Rome and Venice.
"We want to bid for the Games. We'll hold a news conference in Rome Thursday to unveil all the details," a spokesman for the Sicilian Regional Government said Tuesday.
Venice and Rome registered their interest in staging the Olympics soon after Rio de Janeiro won the race for the 2016 Games, beating Madrid among others.
A Madrid victory, following on from London 2012, would have meant two European Summer Games in succession and hugely reduced the chances of a third straight Olympics coming to the continent.
The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) must decide which will be the nation's candidate city if the government backs a bid for the Games.
CONI President Giovanni Petrucci said this month that "the time is right for an Italian bid."
Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics have twice been held in Italy, in Turin in 2006 and Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956.
(Source: Reuters)
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