2016 Summer Olympics

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The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are a major international sports and cultural festival to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The host city of the Games will be announced at the 121st IOC Session (which will also be the 13th Olympic Congress) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009. The 2016 Summer Paralympics will be held in the same city and organized by the same committee.

[edit] Bidding

Location of bidding cities

The bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games was officially launched on 16 May 2007.^[1] The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by 13 September 2007, confirming their intention to bid. Completed official bid files, containing answers to a 25-question IOC form, were to be submitted by each applicant city by 14 January 2008. Four candidate cities were chosen for the shortlist on 4 June 2008: Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo (which hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics.) The IOC did not promote Doha to the Candidature phase, despite scoring higher than selected candidate city Rio de Janeiro due to their intent of hosting the Olympics in October, outside of the IOC's sporting calendar. Prague and Baku also failed to make the cut.^[2]

Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco will head the Evaluation Commission, having also chaired the evaluation commission for the 2012 Summer Olympics bids. The commission will make on-site inspections in the second quarter of 2009. They will issue a comprehensive technical appraisal for IOC members one month before elections^[3]; the final selection will be made by the full IOC membership on 2 October 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[4]

[edit] Candidate cities

City	Bid page	Evaluation	Bidding 1	Bidding 2	Bidding 3
Chicago	Bid details	7.0
Madrid	Bid details	8.1
Rio de Janeiro	Bid details	6.4
Tokyo	Bid details	8.3

[edit] Eliminated applicant cities

City	Bid page	Score
Baku, Azerbaijan [5]	bid details	4.3
Doha, Qatar [6]	bid details	6.9
Prague, Czech Republic [7]	bid details	5.3

[edit] Cancelled bids

• Bangkok, Thailand expressed much enthusiasm after Thailand's performance in the 2004 Olympic Games, but instead applied to host the 2010 Youth Games,^[8] losing to Singapore.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina^[9]
• Cape Town and Durban, South Africa expressed interest.^[10]
• Delhi, India was originally set to enter a bid;^[11] however, in April 2007 it announced it would bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics instead.^[12]
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was also poised to make a serious bid, but in the end did not.^[13]Look here for more details.
• Fukuoka and Sapporo, Japan were other internal candidates eliminated by the JOC.^[14]
• Houston and Philadelphia were eliminated by the USOC; San Francisco withdrew when it lost stadium funding and Los Angeles lost to Chicago for the bid.^[15]
• Istanbul, Turkey broke with their standing policy to bid for every games, but vowed to try again.^[16]
• Lisbon, Portugal considered bidding.^[17]
• Monterrey, Mexico: The Mexican Olympic committee declined to place a bid.^[18]
• Montreal and Toronto, Canada abandoned plans for a 2016 bid after Vancouver won the 2010 Winter Olympics. Toronto is currently considering the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.^{[19][20][21][22]}
• Nairobi, Kenya: The sports minister expressed interest in a bid, but the Kenyan Olympics head said it was not the right time.^[23][24][25]
• Rome, Italy was a leading candidate for a time, but pulled out, preferring to wait for 2020.^[26]
• San Diego, United States and Tijuana, Mexico (San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area) discussed a joint bid.^[27]
• São Paulo, Brazil was being considered to host, but the Brazilian Olympic Committee chose the Rio de Janeiro on its experience in the 2007 Pan American Games.

[edit] Trademark controversy

An issue has arisen both for Chicago 2016 and Tokyo 2016 with regards to internet domain names. Both Chicago2016.com and Tokyo2016.com have been registered by entrepreneur Steve Frayne, who claimed the domains in 2004, as well as up to 40 other domain names with a similar city/year format that mimics the way Olympic Games are marketed. Frayne claimed he would launch a forum designed to openly discuss the benefits and pitfalls of holding the Olympics in Chicago; however, the website is mostly devoted to the disadvantages of making Chicago the host city. Attempts by the USOC to have the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) release the names has failed and it will now be up to U.S. Federal courts to rule.

The Olympic bid candidature documentation published by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) states that each bid must "...provide documentation indicating that appropriate measures have been taken to register domain names that are of value to your candidature such as '[City] 2016' followed by extensions .com .net .org as well as the country code concerned."

Rio de Janeiro has control of rio2016.com, which they registered in 2003 while bidding for the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[28]

[edit] Sports

The 2016 Summer Olympic program is scheduled to feature 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. There are two open spots for sports and seven sports are bidding for inclusion in the 2016 program. Baseball and softball, which were dropped from the program in 2005, karate, squash, golf, roller sports (inline speed skating) and rugby union will apply to be included. A new system was approved for deciding which sports will be included, now a sport needs a simple majority rather than the two-thirds majority that was required before. Leaders of the seven sports will hold presentations in front of the IOC executive board in June 2009. The decision of which sports to include will be made at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, the same session where the host city will be decided.^[29]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

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