Berlin is considering a bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said Thursday, “I can imagine that we bid for 2012”.
Hamburg, Leipzig, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt and Stuttgart also are considering bids for the 2012 Games.
Waither Troeger, president of Germany’s national Olympic committee said, “we welcome every bid that makes sense, and Berlin makes sense.
If the German candidate falls through for 2012, Germany plans to make another bid for 2016.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Paris is considering a Paris bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe met with IOC president Jacques Rogge in Paris and after the meeting said, “at the moment, we are in a very constructive exchange with the National Careers Guidance Centre. To present again our candidature for 2012 is a question that we should settle at first to ourselves. Everybody will be consulted and can give his opinion. It is necessary that there is a collective and massive movement behind us to present again Paris. The moment did not yet come”.
When asked whether he had urged Delanoe to bid for the Games, Rogge said, “it’s not my job to encourage candidacies. The president of the IOC wishes for the best possible candidacy”.
