A Madrid 2020 delegation is to travel from Spain to International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to present its final bid document for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
The delegation includes Alejandro Blanco, President of Madrid 2020 and the Spanish Olympic Committee, along with Mayor Ana Botella, President of the Sports Council Miguel Cardenal, and Lucia Figar, Councillor for Education, Sports and Youth with the Madrid Regional Government.
Also headed to Lausanne is Madrid 2020’s chief executive Victor Sanchez and Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Theresa Zabell, who is CEO for International Relations.
Three Spanish members of the IOC – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Marisol Casado and Jose Perurena – will also be there to support the presentation.
Blanco said, “the delivery of the dossier is an extremely important step for us in the bid process, therefore a top-level delegation will travel to Lausanne. We have been working very hard to deliver an excellent project on January 7”.
The contents of the bid document will be revealed January 8 at a press conference in Madrid’s Cibeles Palace. Blanco will be joined by Mayor Botella, the Minister for Education, Culture and Sport, Jose Ignacio Wert, and the President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee Miguel Carballeda.
Blanco added, “this event on January 8 kicks of our campaign on the international stage. The whole 2020 team will join forces in these next eight months for the sprint finish needed to reach our goal (at the IOC vote) on September 7 in Buenos Aires”.
