A two-thirds majority in the German city of Munich voted in favour of a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036, 2040 or 2044 in a referendum on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Final results showed 66.4 percent of voters in the Bavarian capital voted in favour of the proposal.<\/p>\n
“Munich clearly voted yes,” city mayor Dieter Reiter said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Joerg Ammon, the President of the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV), celebrated the “dream result”.<\/p>\n
With 42 percent of Munich’s 1.1 million eligible voters taking part, the turnout was the highest for a referendum in the city’s history.<\/p>\n
The previous participation record was 37.5 percent, recorded in 2001 for a vote on building the Allianz Arena, home to German football champions Bayern Munich and host of the 2012 and 2025 Champions League finals.<\/p>\n
Munich last hosted the Games in 1972. The Bavarian capital is one of four German regions developing a bid to host the Olympics and was the first to hold a vote to gauge support.<\/p>\n
Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr region are also developing bids, with referenda to be held in 2026.<\/p>\n
The German candidate will be selected by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) late in 2026 before being submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).<\/p>\n
After Sunday’s vote, Bavarian state premier Markus Soeder said “we will now flood the DOSB with our arguments”.<\/p>\n
Voter willingness to host the Olympics has dwindled in many European cities in recent decades, due largely to concerns over cost.<\/p>\n
An estimated 6.7 million euros was spent on Sunday’s referendum alone, with 1.8 million of that going to an information campaign.<\/p>\n
The previous seven German bids to host the Summer or Winter Olympics games failed due to popular opposition.<\/p>\n
In 2013, Munich voters narrowly rejected a proposal to bid to host the 2022 Winter Games, with only 28.9 percent of eligible voters taking part.<\/p>\n
Munich and Berlin are the German cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles will host the next edition in 2028 before Australian city Brisbane takes over in 2032.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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