POSTED: December 30th 2009
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PyeongChang bid promotes green for the Games
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications
SEOUL, Dec. 30: The PyeongChang 2018 bid for the winter Olympics is focusing on putting their best “green” foot forward by adopting some energy saving practices to reduce the carbon footprint.
Their new campaign ‘Making PyeongChang Green for the Games’ will endeavor to decorate both inside and outside buildings to highlight the city’s intent to boost environmental awareness.
It promotes maintaining proper indoor temperature, changing lighting fixtures to LED, riding a bicycle, green-driving, and using high energy-efficiency-certified products. The idea is also to create a place of comfort and natural beauty by developing ivied walls and buildings.
The City Hall has been wrapped with a banner telling the public “It is necessary for us to join in ‘Making PyeongChang Green for the Games’ so that the 2018 Winter Games will truly become a cultural festival surrounded by the nature and it will be recognized both at home and abroad as the best location to host the Games in 2018.”
This makes the third time that PyeongChang has bid for the winter Games. In this next round they will be up against two European bids Munich, Germany and Annecy, France.
Next phase for 2018 candidate cities will be the attendance at the Vancouver Games in February as observers. By mid March they will have to send in their replies to the IOC questionnaire and at the end of June the IOC EB will select the actual candidate cities. With only three cities in the running it is doubtful that they will short list the group.
The vote is set to take place at the 123 IOC Session in Durban, South Africa on 6th July 2011.
Keywords · PyeongChang 2018 · Olympic bids · winter Games
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