Madrid, January 3, 2013 - For several months now, a top-level team in Madrid has been working tirelessly to perfect the city’s pitch for the 2020 Olympic Games.
On January 7, a delegation will travel from Spain to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland to present the final bid document.
The city's case will be made by Alejandro Blanco, the president of both Madrid 2020 and the Spanish Olympic Committee, along with Mayor Ana Botella, the President of the Sports Council Miguel Cardenal and Lucia Figar, who is Councillor for Education, Sports and Youth with the Madrid Regional Government.
Also headed for Lausanne is Madrid 2020‘s chief executive Victor Sanchez and Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Theresa Zabell, who is CEO for International Relations.
More heavyweight backing for the presentation at Chateau de Vidy, the IOC base, will be provided by the three Spanish members of the IOC - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Marisol Casado and Jose Perurena.
Mr Blanco is quietly confident that the Spanish capital's bid will impress.
He says: "The delivery of the dossier is an extremely important step for us in the bid process, therefore a top-level delegation will travel to Lausanne. We have been working very hard to deliver an excellent project on January 7."
The following day at a press conference in Madrid’s Cibeles Palace, Mr Blanco, joined by Mayor Botella, the Minister for Education, Culture and Sport, Jose Ignacio Wert and the President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, Miguel Carballeda, will reveal the contents of the document.
"This event on January 8 kicks off our campaign on the international stage. The whole 2020 team will join forces in these next eight months for the sprint finish needed to reach our goal (at the IOC vote) on September 7 in Buenos Aires," adds Mr Blanco.
For more information contact: Sandra Serrano
International Communications Department
Madrid 2020 Bid Committee
Phone: +34 91 1922020
aserrano@madrid2020.es
www.madrid.es
www.facebook.com/madrid2020
@Madrid2020ES
As a service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatimtexts of selected press releases issued by Olympic-relatedorganizations, federations, businesses and sponsors.
These press releases appear as sent to Around the Rings and are not edited for spelling, grammar or punctuation.
20 Years at #1:
Últimas Noticias
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
