Cape Town has been considering a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games for some time but now there’s a report that a planned 2010 soccer World Cup stadium must be multipurpose to boost Cape Town’s 2020 Olympic bid.
Janine Myburgh, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesday of the proposed stadium “it cannot be justified if it is only to prove a few thousand extra seats…. It needs to be built as a multipurpose stadium that constitutes a major investment in Cape Town’s bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020”.
She added, “we hope the design team will be far-sighted in their planning as it is not just 2010, but about another sporting event, the Olympic Games”.