(ATR) The possibility of a new bid from Budapest for the Olympics rests in the hands of the ex-chairman of the Budapest Stock Exchange.
Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy will be a strategic consultant for the Hungarian Olympic Committee, concentrating on how to make a successful bid for the Olympics.
Hungarian Olympic Committee Krisztián Kulcsár named Szalay-Berzeviczy to the strategic post in the wake of the sixth unsuccessful try for the Summer Olympics. With the first bid in 1916, the latest, for the 2024 Games, ended in February after the emergence of an opposition campaign.
Kulcsár has worked with Szalay-Berzeviczy since 2005 when a group known as the Budapest Olympic Movement was founded to encourage a Budapest bid. Szalay-Berzeviczy is now president of the BOM.
Kulcsár, 45, was elected earlier this month as HOC president, defeating incumbent Zsolt Borkai.
In a letter to Szalay-Berzeviczy, Kulcsár says help is needed to win the Olympics for Budapest.
"Under my presidency, the issue of the Budapest Olympics willbe a special and highly significant chapter, and that is why I am counting on you – as a strategic consultant – primarily in the re-evaluation of the conditions for a future Olympics organized in Hungary and an examination of all the opportunities," says the HOC president.
With the IOC possibly getting ready to award the 2024 and 2028 Olympics to Paris and Los Angeles, the 2032 Olympics could be the next opportunity for Budapest to bid.
Kulcsár also says in the letter to Szalay-Berzeviczy that his help is needed to help attract sponsors for the HOC.
"The other area in which I count on collaboration is in the strengthening and renewal of the Hungarian Olympic Committee’s corporate relations, in which as a former chairman of the stock exchange you similarly have exceptional experience,"
Szalay-Berzeviczy will carry out his work on a pro bono basis.
For Szalay-Berzeviczy, the Olympics seems hereditary. His great grandfather is Albert Berzeviczy, one of the founders of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
Written by Ed Hula.
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