Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
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Games of the XXXI Olympiad XV Paralympic Games |
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Rio de Janeiro Madrid · Tokyo · Chicago |
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| City | Madrid, Spain |
| Chair | Mercedes Coghen |
| NOC | Spanish Olympic Committee |
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| IOC score | 8.1 |
| Previous Games hosted | |
| None • Bid for 1972 and 2012 Spain hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics |
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| Result | 1st Runner-up (32 votes) |
The Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007. The IOC shortlisted four of the seven applicant cities—Chicago, United States; Tokyo, Japan; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Madrid, Spain; over Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; and Prague, Czech Republic—on June 4, 2008 during a meeting in Athens, Greece. This was followed by an intensive bidding process which finished with the election of Rio de Janeiro at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 2, 2009.
Along with Tokyo, Madrid earned the top scores during the Applicant phase, after a detailed study of the Applicant Files received by the IOC Working Group on January 14, 2008. Between May 4 and May 9, 2009, the IOC Evaluation Commission, led by Nawal El Moutawakel, arrived in Madrid to assess the conditions of the city. The Commission attended technical presentations, participated in question-and-answer sessions about the Candidature File and made inspections in all the existing venues across the city. Rio de Janeiro won the final round by a margin of 34 votes over Madrid in a three-round exhaustive ballot of the IOC.
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