POSTED: Friday September 25th 2009
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Madrid 2016: City Sends Olympic Delegation to Copenhagen With Giant Olympic Wave

Spanish capital prepares for official sendoff - up to one million people are expected to attend.

Madrid, 25 September - On Sunday, 27 September, the Spanish capital will come together to show support for the Madrid 2016 bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games and send the official delegation to Copenhagen with a fiesta in true Spanish style

 

The city’s “Impulse Day” celebration will take place in Cibeles Square in one final show of solidarity in support of the Spanish bid before the team heads off to Denmark. Up to one million people are expected to attend and, wearing the colours of Madrid’s “Olympic Hand” bid logo, will come together as a city to form part of a giant “Olympic Hand” and the largest human mosaic ever created. The celebration will demonstrate the number of people who believe in the bid and ‘feel it in their bones’ that Madrid will be chosen to host the 2016 Games.  93.6% of Spanish citizens expressed their clear support for the Games in Madrid, along with full backing from all levels of Spanish society from the Royal Family to corporates, unions, the government, political parties and sporting federations.

 

The human mosaic will be photographed at 19.30 hours and images will be sent across the world once again to underline the strength of support for the Madrid bid in all corners of the globe.  The city’s visible and colourful display of support will be followed by a free concert from Spain’s David Bisbal and the fiesta will feature fun activities for everyone to enjoy including jugglers, face-painters, street artists and much more.

 

Madrid 2016 bid leader Mercedes Coghen said: “We are now all very excited about making the journey to Copenhagen. We will be there as the representatives of our city and look forward to telling the IOC why Madrid is the best city to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016.”

 

“The Games in Madrid will be the ‘Games with the Human Touch”’ They will be the Games of the people and we are doing this for the people of Madrid and Spain and everyone around the world who will experience the best games ever if our city is chosen to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016. We look forward to returning from Copenhagen with this gift for everyone.”

 

ENDS

 

For all media who wish to gain accreditation for photography area on the terrace of the Cibeles Palace, send an email with the relevant name and ID number to comunicacion@munimadrid.es

 

Note: TeleMadrid will be filming from a helicopter over Cibeles Square to capture the ‘Human Mosaic’ image that will be distributed via Retevisión and the FORTA network.

 

Television stations wishing to downlink the footage, should contact the production department at the Information Services of TeleMadrid, on 0034 512 84 47 or 0034 91 512 84 51

 

For further information please call Malcolm Munro on + 44 7795013006 or Nicky Blunt on +44 20 7861 3107        

 

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VNEWS Agency distributes Madrid 2016 footage relating to daily news of the Olympic bid. These videos are free of rights and can be accessed via satellite or FTP download. Please view samples at http://www.vnews.es/” href=“http://www.vnews.es/” target=“_blank”>www.vnews.es (section Madrid 2016).

For further details, please contact Alberto Goytre or Carmen Bond at VNEWS, alberto.goytre@vnews.es, +34 662 361412

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Keywords · Madrid 2016 · Olympic Bids · IOC · Copenhagen

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Name: Malcom Munro
Organization: Madrid 2016 Olympic Bid
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Phone: +44 (0) 7795 013006
URL: http://www.madrid2016.es/EN/Paginas/Home.aspx

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