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.”
Society – with new …read more

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