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Time of India
6 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Berlin bids to host 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Berlin wants to host the Olympics again (Image via AP) Berlin has formally presented its bid to host the Olympics in 2036, 2040, or 2044 at the historic Olympiastadion, where the 1936 Nazi Games took place. The plan focusses on sustainability through the use of existing venues and support from multiple German states. Berlin Sports Minister Iris Spranger outlined the city's vision for sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games, emphasizing the use of existing sports facilities. The bid includes plans to host beach volleyball at the Brandenburg Gate and water sports in Grünau, the same riverside location used during the 1936 Games. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! The proposal to utilize the former Tempelhof airport may face opposition from locals who previously rejected development plans for the popular city park in a 2014 referendum. "You'll have to be patient," said Spranger, acknowledging that the bid remains in its conceptual phase. The initiative faces resistance from many Berliners, with a group called 'NOlympia Berlin' planning to force a referendum to block the bid. Similar Olympic bids in Germany have previously failed, with Munich's 2022 Winter Games and Hamburg's 2024 Summer Games hopes defeated by public referendums. 03:53 IPL 2025: What went wrong for Delhi Capitals? Spranger expressed opposition to a referendum, stating: "I prefer dialogue with one another. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software [Click Here] Esseps Learn More Undo Not just yes or no, but that the public really knows what we're planning." Local Green party politician Klara Schedlich criticized the bid, saying: "Our tax money is better spent on sports clubs than the IOC." The bid, titled "Berlin+" has garnered support from Brandenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein states and must be presented to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) before the month ends. International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons welcomed the potential bid, saying, "The more quality bids we have to work with, the better. We can compare different Games propositions... the different visions for different Games going to different parts of the world. So if they put together a good bid, I think it's very welcome." Poll What is your main concern regarding Berlin's Olympic bid? Environmental impact Historical significance Local community disruption Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner addressed the historical significance of potentially hosting the 2036 Games: "I believe that the 2036 Games, regardless of where they take place, will also focus on the Nazi Games of 1936. That's part of history and attention will be paid to it. I have to tell you, I'm proud to be the governing mayor of a city that has changed in the last 100 years, that we no longer stand for dictatorship, exclusion, and mass violence, but that Berlin is now a cosmopolitan, international metropolis, a colorful, diverse city. " The DOSB will consider bids for 2040 from other German cities including Munich, Hamburg, and North Rhine-Westphalia. A final decision is expected by the fall of 2026. The presentation took place in Berlin's Olympiastadion, which holds historical significance as the venue where Adolf Hitler witnessed Jesse Owens win four gold medals in 1936. The stadium, with a capacity of 100,000 seats, was constructed under Hitler's supervision after the Nazis gained power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Straits Times
7 days ago
- Politics
- Straits Times
Berlin unveils Olympic bid with centenary of Nazi Games in sight
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner (far right) taking part in a press conference to announce Berlin's bid to host the Summer Olympics. PHOTO: EPA-EFE BERLIN - Berlin on May 27 presented its proposal to hold the Summer Olympics, including a bid for the Games in 2036 that would fall exactly a century after the event was hosted by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. 'No matter where they take place, the 2036 Games will bring the Nazi Olympic Games from 1936 back into focus,' Berlin's Mayor Kai Wegner said at the presentation. Hosting the 2036 Games would show 'a city which has changed in the past 100 years', Wegner said, during the event at the city's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1936 Games. 'No longer do we stand for exclusion and hate, but we instead are a colourful, diverse metropolis which is open to the world,' he said. Berlin joins Munich, hosts of the 1972 Olympics, Hamburg and a joint bid by cities in the heavily populated Rhine-Ruhr region vying to host the festival of sport. The hosts have until May 31 to submit their concepts to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), who will decide on a bid to be submitted to the International Olympic Committe (IOC) by autumn 2026. Berlin said it was also open to hosting the Games in 2040 or 2044, as well as 2036, without indicating a preference. The capital's proposal would see events held across the north and east of the country and at urban locations – mirroring the approach taken in Paris in 2024. Berlin officials said the beach volleyball would take place next to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in the centre of the city. The skateboarding would be at the disused Tempelhof airport, already popular with casual skaters, while sailing events would be held on Germany's Baltic Sea coast in Kiel or Rostock. Previous bids in Germany have been undermined by local opposition. Munich, in an attempt to illustrate public support for the bid, have scheduled a referendum for October 2025. An initiative entitled 'NOlympia Berlin' has promised to push for a referendum on hosting the Games in the German capital. The 2028 Summer Olympics will take place in Los Angeles, with the Australian city of Brisbane hosting the Games four years later. According to the principle of rotating hosts between continents, a return to Europe is likely for the 2036 Games. AFP Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Berlin unveils Olympic bid with centenary of Nazi Games in sight
Berlin on Tuesday presented its proposal to hold the Summer Olympics, including a bid for the Games in 2036 that would fall exactly a century after the event was hosted by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Regime. "No matter where they take place, the 2036 Games will bring the Nazi Olympic Games from 1936 back into focus," Berlin's Mayor Kai Wegner said at the presentation. Hosting the 2036 Games would show "a city which has changed in the past 100 years", Wegner said in the event held at the city's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1936 Games. "No longer do we stand for exclusion and hate, but we instead are a colourful, diverse metropolis which is open to the world," he said. Berlin joins Munich, hosts of the 1972 Olympics, Hamburg and a joint bid by cities in the heavily populated Rhine-Ruhr region vying to host the festival of sport. The hosts have until Saturday to submit their concepts to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), who will decide on a bid to be submitted to the International Olympic Committe (IOC) by autumn 2026. Berlin said it was also open to hosting the Games in 2040 or 2044, as well as 2036, without indicating a preference. The capital's proposal would see events held across the north and east of the country and at urban locations -- mirroring the approach taken in Paris in 2024. Berlin officials said the beach volleyball would take place next to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in the centre of the city. The skateboarding would be at the disused Tempelhof airport, already popular with casual skaters, while sailing events would be held on Germany's Baltic Sea coast in Kiel or Rostock. Previous bids in Germany have been undermined by local opposition. Munich, in an attempt to illustrate public support for the bid, have scheduled a referendum for October 2025. An initiative entitled 'NOlympia Berlin' has promised to push for a referendum on hosting the Games in the German capital. The 2028 Summer Olympics will take place in Los Angeles, with the Australian city of Brisbane hosting the Games four years later. According to the principle of rotating hosts between continents, a return to Europe is likely for the 2036 Games. dwi/lp
Hindustan Times
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Indian delegation for talks at IOC headquarters over hosting 2036 Olympics
New Delhi: A high-level delegation from India will travel to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne to discuss the country's bid for the 2036 Olympics. The eight-member delegation comprising Indian Olympic Association (IOA) officials, led by president PT Usha, and representatives of the Union Sports Ministry and Gujarat government, will meet IOC's Future Host Commission (FHC) on June 30-July 2, it has been learnt. This will be the first 'in-person meeting' of Indian representatives with FHC since the country sent an expression of interest in October for hosting the 2036 Olympics. 'The objective of the visit is to present updates on various areas of preparation related to Gujarat's candidature for hosting the 2036 Olympics and to receive IOC's feedback and guidance,' according to people aware of the development. India has also shown interest in hosting the 2030 Commonwealth Games, also in Gujarat, which would prepare the ground for the Olympics project. The same delegation will also visit the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) headquarters in London from June 2-7 to discuss the CWG bid. The team will include IOA CEO Raghuram Iyer, secretary, union sports ministry, Hari Ranjan Rao, Gujarat sports minister, Harsh Sanghavi and Ahmedabad municipal commissioner Banchha Nidhi Pani. The delegation is expected to meet next week and prepare presentations for the projects. FHC has already held virtual meetings with IOA on the subject. The visit to Lausanne is part of the continuous dialogue process to discuss India's bid. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry takes charge as the new IOC president on June 23. Besides India, Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Germany, South Korea and Hungary have expressed interest in hosting the 2036 Games. As per IOC's host selection process, the FHC, currently headed by former Croatia president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, is the body that begins informal dialogue with aspiring host nations. Once it receives an expression of interest, FHC engages with the interested parties in a 'continuous dialogue' where IOC provides technical support to assess the feasibility of the projects based on the specific needs and long-term development plans. The next step is 'targeted dialogue' with one or more interested parties and formal submission of bids for a specific edition of the Games. The process starts as instructed by the IOC Executive Board following recommendation by the FHC. The final selection of the host city is done by the IOC Session.
Forbes
30-03-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
The Unlikely Place Bidding To Host The 2036 Olympics
The first great upset of the 2036 Olympics may be upon us already: it's the takedown of South Korean capital Seoul as a potential host of the Summer Games by a little-known rival 200 kilometers to the south. Chances are you've never heard of North Jeolla Province. Also called Jeonbuk State, it is southwest South Korea, bordering the Yellow Sea. Its capital Jeonju, whose name translates to 'perfect region,' is many things at once. An urban space with a famous traditional Korean village at its center all set in the midst of an otherwise rural area, Jeonju is known for grand gastronomy and a yearly fashion show where the clothes are made entirely of paper. North Jeolla's selection as South Korea's candidate for the 2036 Games comes as a surprise among those who figured Seoul was the obvious nominee. The capital hosted a successful Summer Games in 1988 and has the infrastructure in place to do it again. Yet 88 percent of international sports tournaments in South Korea in recent years have happened outside the capital, a fact North Jeolla's Governor Kim Kwan-young made the most of while talking up his region's bid. One potential red flag: North Jeolla hosted a disastrous World Scout Jamboree in 2023, where 40,000 scouts from 155 nations gathered on reclaimed mud flats that had been converted to a campsite. Poor planning, bad weather, and unsanitary conditions contributed to illness and injuries before a typhoon upended the entire function. Ultimately scouts were evacuated to different cities, where other arrangements were hastily organized. A post-mortem of the event revealed organizers had been unprepared. Nonetheless, Kim's team has convinced South Korean sports officials, who backed the province over the capital by a margin of 49-11 in a vote this month, sending North Jeolla soaring over the first hurdle toward official candidacy. All that's left is for government ministries to sign off on the project before paperwork can be submitted to the International Olympic Committee. Persuasive arguments put forward by Kim included the fact that Australia, which will host the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane, has spread out its host cities to ensure development in three different parts of the country. Melbourne hosted in 1956, Sydney in 2000. It did not hurt that the governor was able to point out that Seoul is not as sport-centric as one might think: in recent years more than 88 percent of sports tournaments in South Korea have not taken place in the capital. In proposing to hold different sports in different cities within the region (track and field in Daegu, swimming in Gwangju, gymnastics in Cheongju to name a few) North Jeolla has embraced a recent trend of Olympic decentralization that led to the French Alps being name as the host of the 2030 Winter Olympics. Part of Kim's argument was that hosting the Games would be a boon not just for one city but for an entire region, coloring it as a 'national project for regional development,' and thus good for the nation as a whole. Even when hosted in a particular city, the Olympics do tend to reflect the spirit of a nation as a whole, at least in the eyes of viewers. Paris's mise-en-scene last summer was so quintessentially French that it was easy to equate the whole nation to the City of Light, despite the reality that life and culture outside the capital is often dramatically different than it is within. The same might be said of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 or London in 2012. Though a date has not been set for choosing the 2036 Olympic host, it is unlikely to happen before 2026 at the earliest, IOC officials have said. Even the process for choosing the next summer Olympic host has yet to be fleshed out. The upcoming Games in Brisbane, as well as those in the French Alps and the 2034 Olympics in Salt Lake City, were essentially awarded by the IOC Executive Board in pre-negotiated deals. But in earlier times IOC members voted for the city they felt was best, lending an air of suspense to the proceedings but also opening the door to 'lobbying and also corruption" as outgoing IOC Thomas Bach put it bluntly in 2021. If the new process has dispelled some of the drama around bidding, it has also streamlined the process and made it more sustainable. It will be up to new IOC President Kirsty Coventry to decide how the organization will go about picking the next host city, and whether she gives more power back to the wider IOC membership in making the call. No matter how it is eventually decided, the race to host the 2036 Olympics is already shaping up to be one of the most intriguing in recent years. Interested parties include Istanbul, whose Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu told Reuters that 'all 16 million Istanbulites are willing to host the Games,' as well as Santiago, Chile, which hosted the Pan American Games in 2023. Indonesia, which bid for 2032, has also pledged to try again for 2036. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which was chosen over Busan, South Korea to host the World Expo in 2030, is said to be interested, and India and Egypt may bid as well. Not all applicant cities will make it to the 'candidate stage' of the process. The prospect of a Games in Africa has clearly interested the IOC, whose new President hails from Zimbabwe and is the continent's most decorated Olympian. But Coventry, unlike one of her challengers for the Presidency, has not gone so far as to guarantee that Africa will be attributed a Games during the next decade. Next year's Youth Olympic Games will be held in Dakar, Senegal, and is likely to be looked back on in deliberations about future bids. Egypt already seems convinced that the 2036 Olympics may be out of reach. As he announced that the nation would bid for the Games, Mustapha Berraf, President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa, added that it would be trying for 2040 as well.
