16 January 2008 – An Olympic plan which will unleash “intense and powerful social regeneration” has been unveiled by the Madrid 2016 bid team.
The Madrid 2016 formal questionnaire, submitted to the IOC, says an Olympics in the Spanish capital will be The Games of the People.
The questionnaire is part of the formal process towards a final decision next year.
The Mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón said the Madrid 2016 Olympic and Paralympic bid would create a fivefold “precious legacy.”
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Madrid, January 15th 2008
- The Madrid 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games would bring an intense and powerful social regeneration process in the Spanish capital.
- The effects of this regeneration, as the Mayor said: “are going to be noticed from about the middle of this year on to and during the next generations.”
- The legacy is going to be focused in five major aspects: society, sports, economics, environment and culture.
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14 January 2008 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that all seven cities applying to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016 have returned their Application Files, which contain their responses to the IOC Candidature Acceptance Procedure questionnaire.
Chicago (USA), Prague (Czech Republic), Tokyo (Japan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha (Qatar) and Madrid (Spain)* – had until midnight on 14 January to submit their files to the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Application File, which marks the first phase in the procedure leading to the election of the host city of the Olympic Games in 2016, …read more

11 January 2008 — Representatives from the three government levels and Brazilian Olympic Committee deliver Rio 2016 Bid applicant files at IOC headquarters in Lausanne
Important authorities of the Federal, State and City governments and Brazilian Olympic Committee were this Friday at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to hand-deliver the documentation required by IOC for the first phase of the process to bid the 2016 Olympic and Paraolympic Games. “We came here to tell the world that Rio is ready for the 2016 Olympic Games. We will throw the greatest party ever, engaging the …read more

The Japanese port of Fukuoka formally announced on Tuesday its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The southern provincial city believes the era of big cities hosting the Games is over, but faces competition from the capital Toyko to go forward as Japanese bid.
“We regard the (2012) London Games as the last of the 20th-century-style Olympics,” world-renowned Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, executive producer of the Fukuoka bid, said. “After the 1936 ‘Nazi Games’, nearly 90 percent of the (Summer) Olympics have been held in capitals or big cities of similar size and used to boost the prestige of the …read more