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The Mayor of Krakow Jacek Majchrowski announced today that the city'' quest Polish withdraw its bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2022 following the results of the referendum held on Sunday to coincide with the European elections.
Monday 26 May 2014 3 minutes reading time
The consultation was attended by just under 36% of those eligible, but enough to make legally binding the vote.
The nomination to the Olympic Games is was judged favorably by only 30.28% of respondents, while 69.72% were defined otherwise.
The authorities the city, so as the committee promoting the candidacy, they had to take note with surprise and regret'' s outcome of the consultation.
Cade so, unexpectedly, the third candidacy credible'' s edition 2022. In November, a referendum of the residents had surprisingly nipped in the bud ambitions of Monaco of Bavaria. In January, then Stockholm had withdrawn from the race due to lack of support'' s municipal government and the Swedish government.
At this point the city in the running to host the XXIV Olympic Winter Games four remain:
ALMATY (Kazakhstan) LVIV (Ukraine) OSLO (Norway) BEIJING (China) Considering as the Games of 2018 will be held in Pyeong Chang, the unwritten principle of the rotation of the continents should scuttle the chances of the two major cities in Asia, while the'' uncertain future of Ukraine'''' casts a shadow over Lviv.
At this point it would be theoretically favored, Oslo, also in the light of the tradition of Norway in terms of winter sports and the success of the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011, but in recent weeks the Progress Party, the third political force in the country and especially a member of'' current Norwegian government announced its opposition to the nomination.
In other words, the'' uncertainty reigns. The IOC will his choice on July 31, 2015.
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