Rome has officially submitted its bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
Mayor Ignazio Marino, bid leader Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and
Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago signed the candidate
application on Friday and sent it to the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).
A statement from the Rome committee said: "Thus begins a path of
construction and sharing for the capital of a plan that will offer
athletes and the entire world the chance to experience the Olympic
spirit and emotions in a setting of incomparable beauty.
"No other city in the world can offer an artistic, historical and
cultural heritage that stretches over such an ample arc of time, which
will allow Olympic competitions to be held in the most spectacular and
symbolic places of the Eternal City."
Hamburg submitted its bid to the IOC on Wednesday and Los Angeles,
Paris and Budapest are the other declared bidders expected to follow
suit by the September 15 deadline.
The host city will be selected by the IOC in 2017.
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