Region’s Olympic Committees Support Budapest Bid To Host 2024 Games
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
The Olympic committees of 16 countries in central and southern Europe expressed their support for Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games at general meeting of the European Olympic Committee in Prague on Saturday. The Olympic committees of Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey voiced their support for the capital’s bid.
Zlatko Matesa, the head of the Croatian Olympic Committee, motioned to support Budapest’s bid, said Zsigmond Nagy, the Hungarian Olympic Committee’s international director.
The 16 committees agreed that Budapest would make an ideal host for the games among the countries in the region, noting its proximity and security among a number of positive attributes, he added.
Budapest is competing against Los Angeles, Hamburg, Rome and Paris to host the 2024 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee will pick the host at a congress in September of 2017.
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