POSTED: Tuesday May 17th 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MUNICH 2018 SEALS FINAL 'FIELD OF PLAY' LAND DEAL

All proposed competition areas now contractually secured

Lausanne, 17 May 2011: The Munich 2018 Bid Committee announced today that all of the ‘field of play’ land required to stage the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games competitions in Bavaria has now been contractually secured, a full seven years before the event itself.

Thanks to a Games concept centred on the adaptive innovation of existing world-class infrastructure, the vast majority of the venues and land necessary for hosting Munich 2018’s Festival of Friendship was already owned by the bid stakeholders. Negotiations for the one remaining area of land in the field of play, located in the finish area of the Kandahar downhill slope in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, have progressed rapidly in the last months.

Chair of the Munich 2018 Bid Committee, Katarina Witt, expressed her delight at the development:

‘I am happy that the final section of the field of play land has been secured, adding the last piece to the puzzle. Now we are 100% ready for a Winter Games in 2018 and also for our technical presentation to the IOC here in Lausanne tomorrow.'

The news arrived just as two of the most high-profile members of Munich 2018’s presentation team, Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Peter Friedrich, and Lord Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, touched down in Lausanne ahead of Wednesday’s 2018 Briefing for IOC members.

CEO of the Munich 2018 Bid Committee, Bernhard Schwank, commented on this positive development:

‘We are very pleased that the land ownership discussions have taken this big step forward. Talks have been progressing quickly and constructively for some time now, and we were always confident that we would be able to find the best solution for all parties. This is further evidence that the people of Garmisch-Partenkirchen are firmly behind our bid.

‘Now that Minister Friedrich and Lord Mayor Ude have arrived, it is time for us all to focus our attention on giving the best possible performance to the IOC members on Wednesday. The rehearsals have been excellent so far and the mood in the team is very positive - we are looking forward to it!’

Munich 2018 will present to the IOC at 09:15 on Wednesday 18 May. The next vital engagement will be the ANOCA Extraordinary General Assembly in Togo, before the final presentation in Durban on 6 July.

Background
Munich, in collaboration with Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Berchtesgadener Land, is applying to host the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The application will be put together and managed by Bewerbungsgesellschaft München 2018 GmbH, with Katarina Witt as Chair, Bernhard Schwank as CEO and Jürgen Bühl as Managing Director. Shareholders in the application organisation are the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) with 51 per cent, the City of Munich (30 per cent), the Free State of Bavaria (nine per cent), the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (eight per cent) and the district of Berchtesgadener Land (two per cent). The bid is being supported by national sponsors Adidas, Allianz, the BMW Group, BayWa, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Post, Flughafen München GmbH, Lotto Bayern, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, METRO GROUP, and the Sparkasse Finance Group, along with national suppliers ARGE (Albert Speer & Partner and PROPROJEKT), Deloitte, Getty Images, GfK Verein, Hubert Burda Media, IMMO 2018, Messe München GmbH, Norton Rose LLP, Munich Olympic Park, pilot sport and Stadtwerke München GmbH. More information about the concept, the progress of the application and many other aspects can be found at http://www.muenchen2018.org/en.

Bewerbungsgesellschaft München 2018 GmbH
Munich 2018 Bid Committee
Olympiapark München
Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21
80809 München

Responsible for contents:
Bernhard Schwank and Jürgen Bühl

Press Contact:
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Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1
80992 München
Telephone: +49 89 540428-317
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E-Mail: presse@muenchen2018.org

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Keywords · Munich 2018 · IOC · Thomas Bach · Katarina Witt · Bernhard Schwank · Garmisch Partenkirchen

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Name: Simone Seefried
Organization: Munich 2018 Bid Committee
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URL: http://www.muenchen2018.org

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