The citizens of the canadian metropolis have decided not to host the winter Olympic games in 2026, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a further setback missed.
According to the first unofficial information on the website vote2018.calgary.ca voted only 43.6 per cent for an application, 56.4 percent voted against it. Accordingly, less than half of all election had taken part in legitimate. The Referendum in the canadian metropolis, the play was the 1988 host of the winter Olympics, is not legally binding. In the run-up but had signaled to everyone Involved: Get the no-side is only a voice, the application dead. Critics of the alignment of led especially the high cost.
Only two candidates in the race
For the winter games in eight years, only two candidates are Stockholm and Milan to Cortina d’ampezzo in the race. Still can’t be the IOC but not sure whether the cities can get their applications up to the choice of the host to the IOC-Congress in June 2019 in Lausanne to maintain. Previously, Sapporo (Japan), Graz, Schladming (Austria), as well as Sion (Switzerland) were eliminated from the pool of applicants.
bri/djo (sid, dpa)