Berlin plans Olympic beach volleyball at Brandenburg Gate if chosen
Berlin would hold the Olympic beach volleyball next to the Brandenburg Gate if it is chosen as Germany's bidder for the 2036 or 2040 Games.
The plans were included in the city's official bid submission to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), which was made available on Tuesday.
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"This is a huge opportunity. An opportunity for sport, an opportunity for Berlin, an opportunity for Germany," Berlin mayor Kai Wegner said at the city's Olympic Stadium, which was the centre point of the 1936 Games under Nazi rule.
Berlin, bidding together with the German states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein as the conceptualized Berlin+, wants to host the Olympics exactly 100 years later to show how much the city has changed.
In addition to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia (with the Rhine and Ruhr region) also want to be Germany's bidder.
The final decision on the German bid is to be made by the third quarter of 2026.
The NOlympia Berlin initiative wants to prevent an Olympic Games in the capital and plans to force a referendum against the proposals.
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