Not only to celebrate the Olympics: Madrid would like to take this opportunity to stimulate economic development in the city and country. This is reflected in the questionnaire Olympic responsible for the Madrid 2020 bid surrendered Tuesday in Lausanne, and now made public. A project that recycles much of the work already done in the previous attempt, in 2016, and updates some data: new sites for new sports-golf at the Country Club and rugby sevens at the premises of Valdebebas Real Madrid-bound subsites by stroke and a budgetfor the Games to be around 1,389 million euros.
The mayor Ana Botella and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and theOlympic Office, Alejandro Blanco, presented the bid book, which reveals what will be the third Olympic project Madrid. Basically, it takes what is alreadydone: the sports facilities built or under way, and which had been projected in 2016. The questionnaire answers questions about the Olympic legacy, environmental conditions of the application, transport or accommodation, as well as financial issues or the specific location of sports facilities.
The 2020 Olympics would be held if the city is chosen, between 7 and 23August and the Paralympics from 11 to 22 September. They have twofundamental reasons: to attract young people into the world of sports, and stimulate economic development in the city and country. That is the vision ofMadrid 2020: “The economic and social recovery.” Or, as reflected in another section, “building future.”