Budapest Olympic Bid Venues Approved
- 28 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
Budapest city council approved a long list of proposed venues for the 2024 Olympic games to be included in the official bid presentation. The chief venue would be a new 60,000-seat stadium for track and field events, to be built on Csepel Island, that could later be scaled down to 15,000 seats.
The existing Puskás Ferenc stadium would primarily host football matches.
In addition to seven main venues in the city, many of them temporary, events such as rowing would be held outside of Budapest.
The games would be brought to the heart of the city by staging archery contests on Kossuth tér, and setting the finish line for the marathon and other long-distance running events on Heroes Square.
Deputy mayor Balázs Szeneczey said some development projects will be implemented regardless of the success of the Olympic bid.
The city council did not support a motion submitted by four opposition parties to have Budapest residents vote on whether to host the games.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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