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Barcelona to bid for 2022 Winter Olympics
Barcelona is hoping to relive the 'Olympic dream' by hosting the 2022 Winter Games.
The city's mayor, Jordi Hereu (pictured), made the announcement today, adding that the 'city is ready' to host a sporting event of this size and importance.
At today's press conference, Hereu said that the 'Barcelona-Pyrenees' has already been lodged as an official candidate with the Spanish Olympic Committee, who will have to decide in 2014 which Spanish city will bid for the 2022 Winter Games.
The community of Aragón has also expressed its intention to bid for the 2022 Winter Games, with 'Zaragoza-Jaca' as the official candidate, prompting Hereu to say that he would be in contact with Zaragoza's mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch.
According to Hereu, Barcelona has an excellent chance of winning the 2022 bid, which would see the city share the events with various ski resorts in Catalunya's Pyrenees.
The opening and closing ceremonies, medal ceremonies, ice skating and ice hockey would all be held in Barcelona itself, and the remaining events would be spread amongst a number of places in the Pyrenees, although Hereu did not specify which ones.
Should Barcelona win the bid for the 2022 Winter Games, it would coincide with the 30th anniversary of the city's hosting of the 1992 Olympic Games, which was responsible for the huge transformation of the city's port area.
Barcelona's bid for the 2022 games was put together after Madrid lost out in its bid for the 2016 Olympic Games
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Well, this is the news we know today. No one exept the Mayor knows it, neither the mates of Mayor's Party or the Mayor of the Pyrinees towns.
When appears the news, some parts of the spanish society start to react against Barcelona and Catalonia cause they think it damages the Zaragoza's candidature. But as we know any city could bid for the Olympic Games.
Zaragoza's candidature is the result of the four failed attempts of Jaca to obtain the Winter Olympic Games, also Madrid failed the Summer Games for 2012 and recently for 2016.
As Barcelona's Mayor said, they start to plan de Barcelona's candidature after Madrid failed the OOGG.
I am a bit sad, cause I think this could become a political beating between to spanish regions Catalonia and Aragón, and the rest of the spanish society taking part from one of them. I think is not a good idea, I had already read a lot of messages against Catalonia and Barcelona only to wanna bid for the W.O.G . I think this is not the Olympic spirit the politics and athlets tell the olympic family at the presentaton of the candidatures...
For that kind of things a country needs to be united. Also I think is not an educated response to our dear Aragonense neighbours.
Other significant point is that today all the TVnews and DigitalNewspaper talk about the news also many international newspaper as NYT, but until tomorrow none Spanish media had talked about Aragonense candidature....Why?? Why they don't give importance to Aragonense candidature until tomorrow...clearly so disrespectful to Aragonense people.
In addition, Barcelona only could celebrate indoor sports, cause as you know in Barcelona aren't mountain's and it doesn't snows. It will need the Pyrinees, I hope Barcelona will count on Girona's Pyrinees and Girona could began a subseat of the Olympic Games.
THE NEWS ON INTERNATIONAL MEDIA (none spanish cause is obvious it appears on all of them or most, and it's not in english
BBC- http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/8457163.stm
UK EUROSPORT - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/13012010/58/barcelona-bid-2022-winter-olympic-paralympics.html
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/more/01/13/barcelona.ap/
NEW YORK TIMES - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/201...lona-2022-Winter-Games.html?_r=1&ref=olympics
Also many other digital newspaper like "Miami Herald", "Seattle Times"
Barcelona is hoping to relive the 'Olympic dream' by hosting the 2022 Winter Games.
The city's mayor, Jordi Hereu (pictured), made the announcement today, adding that the 'city is ready' to host a sporting event of this size and importance.
At today's press conference, Hereu said that the 'Barcelona-Pyrenees' has already been lodged as an official candidate with the Spanish Olympic Committee, who will have to decide in 2014 which Spanish city will bid for the 2022 Winter Games.
The community of Aragón has also expressed its intention to bid for the 2022 Winter Games, with 'Zaragoza-Jaca' as the official candidate, prompting Hereu to say that he would be in contact with Zaragoza's mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch.
According to Hereu, Barcelona has an excellent chance of winning the 2022 bid, which would see the city share the events with various ski resorts in Catalunya's Pyrenees.
The opening and closing ceremonies, medal ceremonies, ice skating and ice hockey would all be held in Barcelona itself, and the remaining events would be spread amongst a number of places in the Pyrenees, although Hereu did not specify which ones.
Should Barcelona win the bid for the 2022 Winter Games, it would coincide with the 30th anniversary of the city's hosting of the 1992 Olympic Games, which was responsible for the huge transformation of the city's port area.
Barcelona's bid for the 2022 games was put together after Madrid lost out in its bid for the 2016 Olympic Games
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Well, this is the news we know today. No one exept the Mayor knows it, neither the mates of Mayor's Party or the Mayor of the Pyrinees towns.
When appears the news, some parts of the spanish society start to react against Barcelona and Catalonia cause they think it damages the Zaragoza's candidature. But as we know any city could bid for the Olympic Games.
Zaragoza's candidature is the result of the four failed attempts of Jaca to obtain the Winter Olympic Games, also Madrid failed the Summer Games for 2012 and recently for 2016.
As Barcelona's Mayor said, they start to plan de Barcelona's candidature after Madrid failed the OOGG.
I am a bit sad, cause I think this could become a political beating between to spanish regions Catalonia and Aragón, and the rest of the spanish society taking part from one of them. I think is not a good idea, I had already read a lot of messages against Catalonia and Barcelona only to wanna bid for the W.O.G . I think this is not the Olympic spirit the politics and athlets tell the olympic family at the presentaton of the candidatures...
For that kind of things a country needs to be united. Also I think is not an educated response to our dear Aragonense neighbours.
Other significant point is that today all the TVnews and DigitalNewspaper talk about the news also many international newspaper as NYT, but until tomorrow none Spanish media had talked about Aragonense candidature....Why?? Why they don't give importance to Aragonense candidature until tomorrow...clearly so disrespectful to Aragonense people.
In addition, Barcelona only could celebrate indoor sports, cause as you know in Barcelona aren't mountain's and it doesn't snows. It will need the Pyrinees, I hope Barcelona will count on Girona's Pyrinees and Girona could began a subseat of the Olympic Games.
THE NEWS ON INTERNATIONAL MEDIA (none spanish cause is obvious it appears on all of them or most, and it's not in english
BBC- http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/8457163.stm
UK EUROSPORT - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/13012010/58/barcelona-bid-2022-winter-olympic-paralympics.html
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/more/01/13/barcelona.ap/
NEW YORK TIMES - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/201...lona-2022-Winter-Games.html?_r=1&ref=olympics
Also many other digital newspaper like "Miami Herald", "Seattle Times"
We had the 8th spanish airport by number of passengers and the 2nd in Catalonia with 5.200.000 pass. in 2009 and in 2 years will have High Speed Rail Way.
