The gleaming spire of the Admiralty, one of St. Petersburg's landmarks.
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St. Petersburg Wants to Host 2020 Olympics
St. Petersburg hopes to host the summer Olympic Games of 2020, said St. Petersburg’s Governor Valentina Matvienko.
St. Petersburg hopes to host the summer Olympic Games of 2020, said St. Petersburg’s Governor Valentina Matvienko. “We will not put off these plans. Certainly, we will not apply for hosting the Games of 2016, because we understand: there exists a principle of continents’ rotation. But we will definitely apply for the next Olympics,” said Matvienko.
The governor also acknowledged that Sochi’s victory in the competition for hosting the winter Olympics of 2014 frustrated St. Pete’s plans to apply for the Games of 2016.
That is the same reason why Rome decided not to apply for the 2016 summer Olympics. Rome’s Mayor Walter Veltroni said on Friday: “We think it is unlikely that any other European city could win the right to host the Olympic Games of 2016, after Sochi. The IOC will not agree to holding 3 Olympics in a row (London-2012, Sochi-2014, and one more European city in 2016) just on our continent. We stake on 2020,” Veltroni said.
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