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[Lord David]

Please use this thread to officially nominate your city, team (if any) and show your logo.

Please go here for general discussion on the 2024 Summer Olympics fantasy bid http://www.gamesbids...ummer-olympics/

Thank you!

[DamC]

I'm teaming with USAandItalia, intoronto1125 and barrack.
Bidding with Melbourne 2020!

more info coming soon...

well, 2024 not 2020 obviously (sorry)

[USAandItalia]

[Scotguy]

Ladies and Gentlemen of Gamesbids, it is with great pleasure that I announce my candidature for the 2024 bid competition.

I will bid with the City of Edinburgh

The official Applicant City logo:

[emre]

any paris yet?

[Lord David]

KCNA via Reuters:

Pyongyang to bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

An official statement via D.P.R.K's Korean Central News Agency states that the country and it's capital Pyongyang will be bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. A bid chairman has yet to be officially announced, but rumor has it that it will be IOC member Mr Hak Son Pak, President of the Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as opposed to D.P.R.K leader Kim Jong-un.

The Pyongyang bid team states that by bidding for the Olympics, it is a good opportunity to not only showcase Pyongyang and the D.P.R.K, but to also improve the country in infrastructure as well as to make the country more open, in which it is currently mostly isolated with the outside world. The government will be making full efforts for normalizing relations with the USA, South Korea and Japan, the Pyongyang bid team states, as a gesture of goodwill and one of the key lasting legacies of the 2024 Olympics.

We're willing and able stated the Pyongyang bid team. No word on what venues will be used, but Pyongyang boasts the 150,000 Rungyong May Day Stadium, the world's largest and 50,000 Kim Il-Sung Stadium. Despite a huge number of indoor stadiums, many do not reach IOC capacity or standards, so many new venues will need to be built, a task in which the Pyongyang bid team states the government is fully capable of achieving.

We have experience, also states the Pyongyang bid team. The city of Pyongyang hosted the 17th ITF (International Takwon-Do Federation, alternate organization to the IOC backed World Takwondo Federation (WTF)) World Takewon-Do Championships in September 2011, in a rare opening to the outside world. Over 80 nations, including the USA competed with over 800 competitors. The Pyeongyang bid team hopes to attract major sporting events to the city to raise it's profile, with the 2024 Summer Olympics being the crown.

Meanwhile, an official bid logo has reportedly been released:


Pyongyang and the D.P.R.K had previously made an attempt to co-host the 1988 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Seoul, South Korea. With failed efforts to land some of those games, the D.P.R.K boycotted the 1988 edition. There were further attempts to co-host with PeyongChang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which also failed. The D.P.R.K is reportedly planning to send a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics as a gesture of goodwill. They previously sent a delegation to the 2002 Asian Games, held in Busan, South Korea, the first ever time competitors from the D.P.R.K competed in South Korea.

Edited by Lord David, 10 March 2012 - 06:51 AM.

[Gangwon]

Great logo LD. I love the use of bleak grey, and the Juche-esque use of the Korean alphabet is very fitting for a North Korean bid: "We know you don't understand, and we don't care!"

[deawebo]

I'm bidding with Berlin!!! Later I'll made a logo...

BERLIN IS BIDDING MATES

[intoronto]

So so far we have Melbourne, Berlin, Pyongyang and Edinburgh. It would be nice if we can get a North American and African bid as well.

[Lord David]

You forgot Paris, emre wants Paris. Which Paris exactly, who knows, maybe he's going to do the one in Texas?