Applications for the 2018 Winter Olympics

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For the application to host the XXIII. For the Winter Olympics and the 2018 Paralympics , the cities of Annecy , Munich and Pyeongchang submitted their documents to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Application process

Annecy, France

Annecy 2018 candidacy logo

The French application was initially hesitant. The CNOSF, the National Olympic Committee (NOK) of France, primarily aimed at an application from Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics after losing out for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . Nevertheless, four cities, Annecy, Grenoble , Nice and Pelvoux , expressed their interest in hosting the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. On September 24, 2008, the CNOSF announced an official application. Annecy was named as an applicant on March 18, 2009.

The logo of Annecy's application symbolized the French Alps with Mont Blanc . The application was led by Charles Beigbeder since January 2011 , after Edgar Grospiron had resigned shortly before due to the unapproved budget increase.

Munich, Germany

Logo of the candidacy Munich 2018

The plans for Munich to apply for the Winter Olympic Games became more concrete in 2005. A feasibility study confirmed the competitiveness of the application. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) unanimously decided on December 8, 2007 to apply from Munich. Under the slogan Die freundlichen Spiele, the candidacy was based on a 2-cluster concept with the ice competitions in the city and the snow competitions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The concept was completed with the combined artificial ice rink on Königssee for the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competitions. The re-use of the sports facilities for the 1972 Summer Olympics and climate-neutral concepts were intended to set new ecological standards. So was z. For example, in an architectural competition for the Olympic Village, which was carried out with a particular focus on sustainability, the goal of the plus energy standard for newly constructed buildings was defined.

The Nordic competitions were originally supposed to be held in Oberammergau . However, farmers feared irreparable damage to their meadows and refused to provide the necessary land for temporary facilities. As a result, the planning had to be changed in summer 2010; the competition venues were then planned on the site of a state stud farm near Ohlstadt . Environmentalists feared that clearing and leveling work for the facility up to 12 m wide slopes would cause irreparable damage.

In December 2010, resistance formed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen when 59 farmers did not want to provide land that was absolutely necessary for the Games. According to surveys in January 2011, 75% of the population across Germany supported the application. If no agreement had been reached on the required land, a minor change to the planned Kandahar route was planned. An internal survey by the IOC Evaluation Commission in March 2011 showed an acceptance of 61% among the population.

On May 8, 2011, almost 21,000 residents of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen community were called upon to vote in two referendums for or against a joint application with Munich. The proposal to support the Winter Games or to hold the event in the future not to be questioned received 58% support. The proposal two with the wording to check the legality of the contracts agreed with the IOC immediately failed with 49%. The additional key question asked was therefore irrelevant.

The Free State of Bavaria wanted to contribute 200 million euros in direct grants, and also wanted to give further guarantees. The commitment of the Free State to cover a third of the losses in the budget was last estimated at costs of up to 1.3 billion euros. After the party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen decided against the project at its party congress in 2010, Claudia Roth withdrew from the organizational board of trustees. Willy Bogner junior was the campaign manager for Munich until September 2010 . Because of an illness he then resigned from this office. Bernhard Schwank has been managing director since then .

In 2017, the Bavarian Supreme Court of Auditors criticized the fact that the application company had created its budget on an unreliable basis and had not developed the financial planning further. He also considered it necessary to differentiate between sponsorship services by companies between those in which the public sector is involved and private companies.

Pyeongchang, South Korea

Logo of the Pyeongchang 2018 candidacy

After Pyeongchang's applications for the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games only narrowly failed, Kim Jin-sun, the governor of Gangwon-do Province , announced in September 2007 that they would vote for a third time. The “Olympic Games of short distances” are still planned, so that all competition venues can be reached within an hour from Pyeongchang. Many of the competition venues have already been completed. The application is based on experience from previous candidacies and broad support from the population (87.7% of all South Koreans and 77.3% of the province's residents). The city officially declared its application in January 2009.

The Organizing Committee received a warning from the IOC Ethics Committee in November 2010 about inconsistencies with sponsorship agreements.

Pyeongchang's application contained a promise to establish a high-speed rail line to and from Seoul, which opened on December 22, 2017.

Assessment by the IOC

A comprehensive technical examination of the applications took place with an evaluation committee consisting of seven participants (four of them members of the IOC) under the leadership of IOC member Gunilla Lindberg from Sweden . The committee was supported by another four technical advisors for the areas of environment, transport, finance and infrastructure. An analysis of the evaluation documents was carried out in the respective cities in February and March 2011 and the report was published by the IOC in Lausanne on May 10, 2011 .

The test report assessed the environmental concept, the existing infrastructure and the experience with major sporting events as strengths of the German application. However, the commission was critical of the fact that the sustainability and advantages of the concept were not properly communicated to the population.

The opposition movement was clearly discussed in the report and it was pointed out that the support among the population in Pyeongchang is very high. In addition, the test report confirmed that the South Koreans had a very compact sports facility concept with short travel times and an award to the applicant, who had already failed twice, would open up the very important market in Asia again.

Most of the points of criticism were listed in the French application. The area around Annecy has the lowest popular support and the concept of sports facilities spread across the region was rated negatively in the report. Nevertheless, the commission certified that all three applicants would be able to host the Winter Games successfully.

Award

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened the application phase on July 31, 2009. All 203 National Olympic Committees were invited to submit a candidacy. By the end of the application period on October 15, 2009, the candidacies of Annecy, Munich and Pyeongchang had been officially registered with the IOC by their respective NOKs. From the three applications submitted, the IOC named Munich and Pyeongchang as official candidates on June 22, 2010. Annecy, also with the status of an official candidate, had to submit a revision of the sports facility concept. The members of the IOC decided on the venue on July 6, 2011 in Durban .

Election result
city country be right
Pyeongchang Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 63
Munich GermanyGermany Germany 25th
Annecy FranceFrance France 07th
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Web links

Commons : Winter Olympics 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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