(ATR) Berlin and Hamburg have filed documents with the German Olympic Sports Confederation outlining their bidding concepts to stage the 2024 or 2028 Olympics.
Both cities sent responses to the 13 questions of the DOSB about their intentions to bid for the Summer Games.
"The aim of our questionnaire is to meet the conditions for a possible Olympic bid in two cities in detail," DOSB president Alfons Hörmann said in a statement Monday. "We will now evaluate the answers and discuss."
Under Berlin’s modest proposal, the city said it would spend $328 million renovating 15 existing arenas and $1.3 billion building temporary venues, according to German media reports. The Olympic stadium, venue for the 1936 Games, would be the focal point.
Events would also be staged in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony.
Berlin bid unsuccessfully for the 2000 Olympics.
Hamburg’s proposal is for a "sustainable and compact" Games, with most events held in a 10-km radius of the Olympic stadium, which would be built on an island in the city's harbor.
Hörmann said the DOSB would not be rushed into a decision on whether to bid for the Olympics and which city would get its nomination if Germany decide to enter the 2024 bidding race, which starts in autumn next year.
He emphasized that "considerable" public support was crucial to the decision-making process.
Also influencing the decision will be if the German football association decides to bid for UEFA’s Euro 2024 tournament, which would appear to rule out an Olympic bid until 2028. That may become clearer in the weeks after Sept. 19, the date when European football’s governing body announces the 13 host cities for the pan-European Euro 2020 tournament.
Discussions on a possible Olympic bid will take place at the DOSB Bureau on Sept. 11 and Oct. 28 and in various meetings of the Germany Olympic body’s member organizations in the coming months.
The DOSB now seems unlikely to make a decision on an Olympic bid and whether to make Berlin or Hamburg their candidate city until next year.
Reported by Mark Bisson.
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