POSTED: Friday October 2nd 2009
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Mercedes Coghen: “Madrid is the City for an Olympic Fiestaâ€
Madrid is the ideal city to host the greatest sporting event on the planet.
2 October
Madrid will today find out whether the city has been elected to host
the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016. With just hours before the
final announcement of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Madrid
2016 bid leader Mercedes Coghen has said why Madrid is the ideal city
to host the greatest sporting event on the planet.
Madrid offers
the IOC an Olympic and Paralympic Games a fiesta atmosphere in a secure
setting. Madrid is a very safe city, with a low level of crime.
As
the Madrid 2016 bid delegation prepares to give its final presentation
to show the IOC members why the city deserves to host the 2016 Games,
people in Madrid will fill the city’s streets in one final show of
solidarity and to celebrate the announcement. Another example of the
city’s warm fiesta spirit, Madrid’s citizens will watch the final
announcement wearing colourful T-shirts with the Madrid 2016 logo. The
scenes are likely to replicate Sunday’s ‘Impulse Day’, when half a
million people gathered in the city’s Cibeles Square to wave off the
Madrid 2016 delegation and reaffirm their support for the bid.
Speaking
in Copenhagen about why Madrid is the perfect setting to welcome the
Olympic Family in 2016, Mercedes Coghen said: “In Spain we have the
fiesta spirit in our blood and we also have the Olympic spirit in our
blood”
“On Sunday, half a million people gathered in the centre
of Madrid for a street fiesta to celebrate and show support for our
Olympic bid. Not only does this show the phenomenal support in our city
for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016 and the warm welcome
everyone will receive, it is one of numerous examples of the safe
environment of our city.
“Madrid offers the balance of a fiesta
spirit on safe streets, where everyone can be assured of enjoying the
Olympics freely and we look forward to welcoming everyone here and for
the greatest Olympics ever in 2016”.
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For all media enquiries, please contact:
In Copenhagen:
Malcolm Munro: +44 (0)7795 013006 mmunro@goodrelations.co.uk
Jorge Hijar: +34 650 803 412 jhijar@madrid16.es
Patricia Fernández Pérez: +34 608 544 960 pfernandez@madrid16.es
In London:
Nicky Blunt: +44 (0)20 7861 3107 nblunt@goodrelations.co.uk
Annie Tarling: +44 (0)20 7861 3143 atarling@goodrelations.co.uk
In Madrid:
Alvaro de la Cruz: +34 679 760 605 adelacruz@madrid16.es
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/ blocked::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.
For a selection of Madrid 2016 images, please contact Alvaro de la Cruz +34 679 760 605 adelacruz@madrid16.es
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