2018 Winter Olympics
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 The host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics |
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The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, will be celebrated in 2018, and are an international winter sports athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The organization under the leadership of Jacques Rogge is currently preparing to mount calls for cities to bid for the honor of hosting the event. The winning bid should be announced in the summer of 2011.
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[edit] Potential bids
[edit] US bids
United States cities have already announced plans to compete for the opportunity to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. A successful bid would be the fifth time the Winter Olympics would be held in the United States. Salt Lake City, Utah has shown its interest in hosting the games for a second time. The Lake Tahoe region, hosted in Reno, which is divided between California and Nevada has also hosted the Winter Olympics (Squaw Valley 1960), has also conducted feasibility studies for these Games.
Denver, Colorado is conducting a feasibility study for either the 2018 Winter Olympics or 2020 Summer Olympics. However, Denver has the dubious distinction of being the only city to reject hosting duties without a compelling reason (Rome rejected its hosting duties for the 1908 Summer Olympics because of reconstruction efforts following a volcanic eruption). After being awarded the hosting rights for the 1976 Winter Olympics, in the early 1970s, environmentalists and anti-growth advocates forced a statewide referendum prohibiting the expenditure of public funds to host the Games. Also 1976 was the United States Bicentennial year, and Colorado was turning 100. People thought this was more important along with the referendum. Colorado voters approved the referendum, essentially killing the city's ability to host the Games. This is widely viewed as a huge hindrance to the bid effort, if not killing it completely. After thirty years of substantial growth, significant improvements in the region's transportation infrastructure (Such as the Denver International Airport), a host of new stadiums and arenas, and billions of dollars invested by the ski resort and mountain recreation industries, the city is considering a new pursuit of the Games. Due to Denver's unique location and size, Denver could be one of only a few cities in the world that could host both the Summer and Winter games, (given enough time to win the other bid) which has never been done.
[edit] Other international bids
The Austrian Olympic committee has announced that if Salzburg is unsuccessful in its 2014 bid for the Games the city will not get another chance to compete to host the games.
Munich is another possible candidate, but Berlin and Hamburg are thinking of a possible summer games in 2024 or 2028 which might negate a possible Munich bid for 2018.
The French Olympic committee will need to choose between three potential candidate cities. Annecy, which had originally intended to bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, has been joined in the running by Grenoble and Gap. However, the French committee is quite reluctant, preferring to focus on the 2024 Summer Olympics, which makes a French bid dubious at best.[1] (Nb. This source is in French)
After the failed bid for 2014, Sofia has intentions to bid again for 2018, as announced by the head of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee will decide upon a future bid in December 2006.
Among the Canadian possible bids are for Quebec City which previously bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics, Calgary which previously hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics. Vancouver 2010 will make it unlikely that Canada gets two winter games 8 years apart.
Norway has three possible candidate cities. Oslo and Lillehammer have announced to bid jointly while Tromsø and Trondheim are also considered to be candidates. A final decision will be made in January or February 2007. Norway held the games in 1952 (Oslo) and in 1994 (Lillehammer).
Queenstown, New Zealand, is believed to be considering a bid for either the 2018 or 2022 Winter Olympics. Queenstown is referred to as the adventure capital of the world due to large number of adventure tourism activities on offer. Queenstown is also home to the largest ski fields in Oceania. Furthermore the resort town is undergoing huge redevelopment which will add another 12,000 to the population. Christchurch is also a possible New Zealand candidate city. Factors in its favour are its large population and expertise.
Other possible candidate cities include Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Östersund/Åre, Sweden; Falun, Sweden; Santiago; Chile, Bsharri[citation needed], Lebanon, as well as the cities which would fail in the 2014 competition, such as Jaca, Spain, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Sofia, Bulgaria and Borjomi, Georgia, which were not selected as candidate cities. Ukrainian minister of family, youth and sports Yuriy Pavlenko made a statement that if Ukraine is given a chance to organize the Euro 2012 in cooperation with Poland, then Ukraine will bid for the 2018 winter Olympics.
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