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[GBModerator]

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is set to decide Friday whether Rome will continue its bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Deadline for a

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[Rols O'Bertilsson]

Well, it'll certainly be one of this year's Top 10 Newsmakers if they drop out tomorrow!

[deawebo]

Nooooo please don't!! Otherwise the race will get a bad turn... :S at what time does the desition will be made?

[Lord David]

So, if they DO go ahead, it means that they have basically 12 days to produce an Applicant bid document based on whatever information has already been compiled? Or has an Application document already been produced waiting approval to be officially submitted?

[Rols O'Bertilsson]

Lord David, on 02 February 2012 - 11:46 PM, said:

So, if they DO go ahead, it means that they have basically 12 days to produce an Applicant bid document based on whatever information has already been compiled? Or has an Application document already been produced waiting approval to be officially submitted?

I'd assume they'd have everything ready to go, and are just waiting on the govt's okay. They HAVE had the longest time of any applicant in this race to prepare.

[RobH]

Everything will be ready to go; don't forget the Italian process has been going on for ages. They had a preselection contest against Venice.

[SwissO]

RobH, on 03 February 2012 - 03:02 AM, said:

Everything will be ready to go; don't forget the Italian process has been going on for ages. They had a preselection contest against Venice.

And they were the first to announce their experts' team at the beginning of October....

[munichfan]

If Rome drops out, we may have at least two big winners: Madrid will get the votes of those supporting a SOG 2020 in Europe and Baku might be shortlisted, since the IOC won't only throw one city out and only three would be too less.

[FYI]

ummmm, six minus two, rome n baku, equals four not three; madrid, istanbul, tokyo, doha.

just like what we had for the 2016 summer shortlist.

[munichfan]

First, Monti said he would decide on Rome's bid on February 14th.

@FYI I talked about the shortlist. If Rome dropped out, it would be 5 cities left there which could be shortlisted. The IOC always saysthat they want to have four to five cities in the shortlist for a SOG. The past experience has shown that they don't want to throw only ONE city out, so if they didn't shortlist, let's say Doha and Baku, it would only be three cities, so one too less.

Best example: Annecy 2018