国际奥委会公布2020年奥运会3申办候选城市名单_高中英语语法

国际奥委会公布2020年奥运会3申办候选城市名单

IOC names 3 finalist cities to host 2020 Summer Games

With the IOC already overseeing preparations for the next two Summer Olympic Games - in London this year and Rio 2016 - their focus has now switched to the host of the 2020 edition. On Wednesday, the IOC Executive Committee narrowed the list of candidate cities from five to three.

Mark Adams, IOC spokesman says, "The executive board has decided that the following cities can continue to the next phase and become candidates for 2020. In the order of drawing lots, Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid."

The race to host the 2020 Summer Games is now a three-way battle between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Qatar’s Doha and Azerbaijan’s Baku were eliminated as candidates.

Next for Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo is 16 months of furious campaigning as they try to convince the IOC they are up to the task of staging the world’s biggest sporting spectacle. Madrid is bidding for a third consecutive time, but this time its bidding against the backdrop of Spain’s financial crisis.

Thersa Zabell, vice president of IOC says, "And a word of thanks to all the people that made it possible in the last 10 years that we’ve been working to reach this far. We got all the way through to the end in the last two bids and I hope this time we’ll make it to the very end and get allocated the games for 2020."

All three cities have bid before but Istanbul, bidding for a fifth time, could finally be rewarded for its persistence. Bridging Europe and Asia, Istanbul is seen by many as an attractive choice but Turkey’s pursuit of football’s 2020 European championships continues to provide a distraction that the IOC said presented "significant risks".