Jose Ramon Fernandez, vice president of Cuba and head of Cuba’s Olympic Committee, told the Communist Party daily newspaper Granma that Cuba is launching a bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Fernandez said that Cuba wants to show the world how a small country can efficiently organize the event without commercialism that traditionally accompanies the Games.
He said, “the permanent policy of always granting the site to the same ones, the few rich representatives of less than 20 of the 200 committees that exist, is unacceptable”. He added that wealthy nations allow “an exaggerated amount of commercialism” that overshadows the event established to promote amateur sports.
