Plans for Dusseldorf’s bid to become the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games include an 18,000 Athletes Village at a cost of about 600 million euro.
A bid spokesman said plans for the competition venues have not yet been formulated but will be started if Hamburg is selected Germany’s candidate.
Dusseldorf’s mayor Joachim Erwin says that the city’s Olympic bid is a unified bid. At a recent workshop-competition held for critics of Dusseldorf’s bid there were only 30-40 people in attendance.
The 65-acre Rheinvorland will be the site of the Athletes Village and will be connected to the Olympic stadium by a bridge for streetcars, cyclists and pedestrians. The village will be privately financed and security will be of a high standard.
