Olympic games candidate cities 2020

Hide Caption. The Eiffel Tower was a central focus of the "Exposition Universelle. Louis — The Olympics left Europe for the first time in and arrived on U. One of the stars in St. Louis was Archie Hahn -- second from the right in this picture taken in The American won three gold medals, in the and meters and the now-defunct 60 meters. Queenie Newall won the ladies' "double National round" archery competition at the age of Amsterdam, — The Dutch capital was host after failing with bids to stage the and events.

Hildegard Schrader of Germany won the women's meter breaststroke event. It was used to house the male athletes, with women staying at the Chapman Park Hotel. Germany's Fuhrer viewed it as an ideal opportunity to show the supremacy of the Aryan race , but American Jesse Owens flew in the face of such prejudices by winning four gold medals -- three in sprint events and one in the long jump.

The first torch relay was held, with the flame carried from Mount Olympus to the Olympic Stadium. London had just 18 months to prepare itself, while also trying to emerge from the rubble created by heavy bombing during the six-year conflict, with a population still restricted to rations. The three remaining candidate cities will enter into Phase 2 of the selection period.

Files from the cities will be submitted to the IOC by January 7, In culling the field from five to three cities, the IOC executive board relied "on application files, the report of a working group of experts which is formed to assess the application forms of each city, the city's compliance with elements like the World Anti-Doping Code, and other criteria," said Adams.

Tokyo also pioneered innovative projects to include the Japanese public in concrete sustainability actions. There were six bids initially submitted for the Summer Olympics. Toggle navigation W ebsitekeywordchecker. Home Extension Country Pricing. The International Olympic Committee has made significant improvements to its approach to future hosts since the election of Thomas Bach as IOC President in and the subsequent adoption of Olympic Agenda One of the key areas addressed by Olympic Agenda was the candidature procedure, with a new philosophy introduced that invited potential hosts to present projects that best fit their sporting, economic, social and environmental-planning needs rather than trying to fit the local context to the Games.

Further information can be found here. On this page, we endeavour to give you a clear overview and easy access to the various Candidature Files that were previously submitted. When referring to the documentation below, it is essential also to consult the Reference document " The Olympic Host Candidature Process: Cities ".

It is important to note that: - For the to procedures, there was a two-stage process differentiating between Applicant Cities first stage and Candidate Cities second stage.

This page shows the Candidate Cities. The full list of the Applicant Cities is available in this document. This collection is supplemented, in particular for the earlier editions of the Games for which there was no official Candidature File, by a unique selection of documents from the IOC Historical Archives. If you wish to obtain more information on correspondence, posters or publications, please contact us at studies.

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