While visiting Madrid 2012 this week International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said the calibre of candidates to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games was so high that no city may be eliminated before 2005.
The nine cities bidding for the 2012 Games include Paris, Leipzig, Havana, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Rogge said, “the elimination of cities is not an artificial reduction but a means of weeding out ones which are not ready to organize the Games. But this time we have nine very prestigious cities and there is the possibility that we will not eliminate any”.
