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So far the candidacy of Erzurum to organize the Winter Olympic Games of 2026 appeared to span the air, especially for the 'absence of any domestic political support. However, today no less Recep Erdogan himself has announced its intention to pursue the project.
Friday 14 April 2017 4 minutes reading time
Turkish The President stated that "By organizing the European Youth Olympic Festival have taken the first step. With a few adjustments we can aspire to the most impressive demonstrations. Erzurum has the-art infrastructure needing only some minor upgrades. The project is connecting the city to Erzican and Kars via a high-speed railway will be completed in 2023 and launch a shared application among the three locations.
We have not yet managed to bring the Olympic Games in our country, although we would have deserved them. For example, the IOC chose to assign the '2020 edition to those who had already hosted the' event and not to those who would do it for the first time. "
Indeed Turkey is trying unsuccessfully to organize the Olympic Games now for a quarter century. Istanbul is bidding for 2000 (eliminated in the first ballot with 7 votes out of 89), for 2004 (rejected by the IOC at the start), for 2008 (9 votes out of 105 collected on the second ballot), for 2012 (again rejected by the IOC at the start) and 2020 (beaten by Tokyo on the ballot with 36 votes against 60 of the Japanese capital).
Now he would be ready to be born a "winter" attempt. Erzurum has indeed invested a lot on snow sports, coming to organize the Universiade in 2011, the 2012 Nordic Skiing Junior World Championships and in fact the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2017.
For the truth has become famous for the disastrous collapse of its trampolines, then rebuilt from scratch and came back fully efficient.
Frankly the words of Erdogan may also be useful for internal political reasons, but from a neutral point of view, the application (if ever see the light) appears all uphill.
Primarily because the competition is likely to be highly qualified. surely contribute Switzerland with Sion, also the event is tempting even to Norway (Lillehammer), Austria (Innsbruck), Canada (Calgary) and, perhaps, Sweden (Stockholm).
Also on the top EYOF there was an unfortunate situation passed undercurrent. The 'dell''evento organization has refused to enter the Nordic combined set within the program, as it was deemed "unattractive". In Germany and Austria sign of protest we decided to boycott the 'appointment in ski jumping.
Not exactly a shining business card for anyone who aims to organize a global event.
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