Applications for the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Candidate logo of the victorious candidate city Rio de Janeiro

Seven cities submitted applications to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics . The applications of Baku for Azerbaijan , Doha for Qatar and Braies for the Czech Republic were not accepted for the final selection in June 2008. While Prague had previously applied to host the Summer Olympic Games, it was the first in history for Baku and Doha. For all three it would have been the country's first summer games. Reasons for not being considered were, for example, the lack of infrastructure and the geographical proximity to Sochi , the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Azerbaijani application, and the high temperatures in the Persian Gulf in the summer months in the Qatari application. In Prague it was assumed that the application had no chance: “It is 99% certain that the 2016 Games will not take place in Europe,” said Pavel Bém , the Lord Mayor of Prague. Rather, the application should be a test run for a more successful application for the 2020 or 2024 Games.

The approval for the final decision about the venue received on 4 June 2008, the American city of Chicago , the Spanish Madrid , the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and the Japanese Tokyo .

Application process

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) started the application phase for the 2016 Summer Olympics on May 16, 2007. All 203 National Olympic Committees were invited to submit a candidacy. By the application deadline on September 13, 2007, seven cities had submitted their complete application to the IOC.

Choice of venue

The members of the IOC decided on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen that Rio de Janeiro would be the venue for the 2016 Olympic Games. In the first two ballots, the applications from Chicago and Tokyo were eliminated with the fewest votes. With the announcement in the hall at 6:50 p.m., Rio de Janeiro was officially set as the venue. The exact results were published immediately afterwards:

place country Round 1 round 2 Round 3
Rio de Janeiro BrazilBrazil Brazil 26th 46 66
Madrid SpainSpain Spain 28 29 32
Tokyo JapanJapan Japan 22nd 20th -
Chicago United StatesUnited States United States 18th - -

Suspicion of corruption in the award

The Brazilian federal police carried out a major raid on Sugar Loaf Mountain on September 5, 2017, and had evidence in the house of the President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman and at the headquarters of the “Comitê Rio 2016 “Ensured. According to information from French judicial authorities, which had already become known in early March 2017, a few days before the election of Rio de Janeiro, members of the International Olympic Committee with voting rights , including the son of the then President of the World Athletics Federation (IAAF) Lamine Diack, would have $ 1.5 million And former athletics star Frankie Fredericks received $ 500,000 in kickbacks from entrepreneur Arthur Soares. In the operation called "Unfair Play", two arrest warrants had to be carried out and a total of eleven house searches had to be carried out, whereby the arrest of the entrepreneur Arthur Soares and his former business partner Eliane Calvacante should shed light on the interweaving of corruption , money laundering and the formation of a criminal organization .

Overview of the candidacies

Chicago

Application logo Chicago 2016

Chicago prevailed over applications from Houston , Philadelphia , Los Angeles and San Francisco in an American domestic application process . After the USOC had confirmed its intention to host the Summer Games on January 9, 2007, its members chose Chicago on April 14, 2007 as an official candidate. It would have been the fifth time the Olympics have been held in the United States, the last being in Atlanta in 1996 .

Madrid

Application logo Madrid 2016

Madrid first applied for the 1972 Olympic Games , which ultimately went to Munich . For 2012 they started a second attempt, the city was eliminated in an extremely close election against Paris and the eventual winner London . On June 6, 2006, Madrid applied for the 2016 Games and on May 30, 2007, the Spanish Olympic Committee confirmed the candidacy. Due to the fact that the games took place in Barcelona in 1992 on Spanish soil and the 2012 summer games were also awarded to the European city of London, Madrid were given little chance. On the other hand, in the technical evaluation of the IOC in June 2008, the candidacy received the second best overall grade (8.2), just behind Tokyo (8.4) and clearly ahead of Chicago (7) and Rio de Janeiro (6.4). In addition, the Spanish ex-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch was very influential.

Rio de Janeiro

The Brazilian Olympic Committee nominated the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro on September 1, 2006. This had already applied for the 2004 and 2012 Summer Games, but both times failed in the IOC's preselection of the official candidate cities. The chances of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games improved, however, as the 2007 Pan American Games took place there and in the course of this numerous sports facilities that were also required for the Olympic Games, such as an athletics stadium (João Havelange Stadium), a sports hall for basketball and gymnastics ( Rio Olympic Arena), a swimming stadium (Maria Lenk Aquatic Parc) and a velodrome for track cycling. With the decision of the IOC, the Olympic Games will take place in South America for the first time, which is an advantage over European, Asian and North American applicant cities.

Tokyo

Application logo Tokyo 2016

Tokyo was originally intended to host the 1940 Olympic Games , but they did not take place due to the Second World War. Tokyo then hosted the 1964 Olympic Games . In an internal vote on August 30, 2006, the Japanese capital prevailed over its competitor, the port city of Fukuoka . Tokyo received the best mark of all applicants (8.4) from the IOC in June 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gamesbids.com
  2. ↑ Prague is applying for the 2016 Olympic Games
  3. ↑ cf. AFP report Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio in the final round for the 2016 Olympics at focus.de (accessed on June 4, 2008)
  4. ↑ a b c Buying votes for Rio 2016: Raid on Olympia boss and arrest warrants , Olympic Games, on: Leichtathletik.de, from September 5, 2017, accessed September 5, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Evaluation of the candidates ( memento of September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) June 4, 2008
  6. ↑ Jens Weinreich: There is a ghost. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 11, 2008, accessed July 9, 2015 .