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Residents of Bavaria refused to take the Olympic Games 2022
Practical Germans
Residents of the four regions of Bavaria voted against the application to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022, reports on Sunday, November 10, Deutsche Welle.
The referendum, which was held in the Bavarian capital Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Traunstein and Berchtesgaden, more than half of residents do not support the initiative. According to preliminary data, in Garmisch-Patenkirhene 51 voted against, 56 percent of voters, while in Traunstein - 59, 67 percent of voters.
Munich would become the capital of the Winter Olympics for the second time in its history, only if it agreed to the majority of participants in the referendum in each of the four regions.
In 2011, the Munich bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2018, but lost to South Korea's Pyeongchang. In the Bavarian capital, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen A quarter of the Winter Olympic Games 1936, moreover, took the twentieth Munich Summer Olympics in 1972.
As recalled by the ITAR-TASS news agency, it was planned that Munich will take opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, hockey games and a number of other competitions in Ruhpolding (near Traunstein) will biathlon and ski competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen - competitions in Alpine skiing, and in Schonau -am Königssee (near Berchtesgaden) held competitions in bobsled and luge.
Burgermeister Garmisch-Partenkirchen Thomas Schmid has expressed disappointment with the results of the referendum, noting that Bayern missed a chance to get the last Olympic Games. In turn, the chairman of fraction "green" in the Bavarian parliament Ludwig Hartmann explained that the results of the vote - it is a protest not against sports, but against the greed of the International Olympic Committee.
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Residents of the four regions of Bavaria voted against the application to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022, reports on Sunday, November 10, Deutsche Welle.
The referendum, which was held in the Bavarian capital Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Traunstein and Berchtesgaden, more than half of residents do not support the initiative. According to preliminary data, in Garmisch-Patenkirhene 51 voted against, 56 percent of voters, while in Traunstein - 59, 67 percent of voters.
Munich would become the capital of the Winter Olympics for the second time in its history, only if it agreed to the majority of participants in the referendum in each of the four regions.
In 2011, the Munich bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2018, but lost to South Korea's Pyeongchang. In the Bavarian capital, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen A quarter of the Winter Olympic Games 1936, moreover, took the twentieth Munich Summer Olympics in 1972.
As recalled by the ITAR-TASS news agency, it was planned that Munich will take opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, hockey games and a number of other competitions in Ruhpolding (near Traunstein) will biathlon and ski competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen - competitions in Alpine skiing, and in Schonau -am Königssee (near Berchtesgaden) held competitions in bobsled and luge.
Burgermeister Garmisch-Partenkirchen Thomas Schmid has expressed disappointment with the results of the referendum, noting that Bayern missed a chance to get the last Olympic Games. In turn, the chairman of fraction "green" in the Bavarian parliament Ludwig Hartmann explained that the results of the vote - it is a protest not against sports, but against the greed of the International Olympic Committee.
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