In the questionnaire sent to the International 'Thousands' moved for Olympics ...
Beijing athletes allowed to blog ...
Bush defends US record on Darfur ...
London 'on track' for 2012 Games ... Olympic Committee (IOC) Prague writes that if it were chosen as one of the candidate cities in the upcoming selection procedure, it would receive the equivalent of $5.2 million from the Czech government, HN writes. In fact the government provided only legal guarantees to Prague's Olympic candidacy a few weeks ago, but no financial guarantees, as it explicitly pointed out. Prague Mayor Pavel Bem (Civic Democrats, ODS) would not comment on the issue. Karel Tejkal, spokesman for the Praha Olympijska (Olympic Prague) company that is in charge of the Olympics promotion, says the figures in the questionnaire are based on a financial study by the PriceWaterhouseCoopers company and are nothing but a possibility under consideration. The costs of the candidacy will be covered by Prague, Tejkal said. The answers in the official questionnaire do not state this, however, writes HN. The IOC executive committee will meet this June to discuss the selection of the cities to be candidates for hosting the 2016 summer Olympics.
The Olympics venue will be definitively chosen at the IOC session in Copenhagen in October 2009.
(Ceske Noviny)
more info >>
<< Back