German port city Hamburg formally bids for 2024 Summer Olympics
This German port city has formally submitted its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Hamburg: This German port city has formally submitted its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday: "I hope the enthusiasm connected with the games brings us all forward."
"We invite the international sports family to get to know our clearly colorful and increasingly diverse country," Alfons Hoermann, the president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), said.
Paris, Rome, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary, are other declared bidders for the 2024 Olympics.
The IOC deadline for formal submission of bid entries is September 15, this year. The IOC will select the host city in September 2017.