(ATR) The Italian Olympic bid plans to mark its first submission to the IOC with a special event next week.
Rome 2024 is staging an event at Palazzo dei Congressi to unveil more details of its Olympic project. More than 1,000 guests are set to attend.
Bid president Luca di Montezemolo and Italian Olympic Committee chief Giovanni Malagò are among officials expected to make speeches at the event, emphasizing the key strengths of the bid.
"The Rome 2024 committee will present to the city the vision of the project as well as its economic budget, the effect on employment and all the opportunities and the benefits that the Games would offer to the country," the bid said in a statement.
The bid tells Around the Rings that government ministers and Olympic stakeholders will attend what it bills "a great show" that it hopes will mobilize institutions, investors, municipalities, businesses, universities and the Italian sport movement.
The event will be live-streamed on Italian free-to-air broadcaster RAI.
The four 2024 candidate cities – Budapest, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome – will deliver detailed questionnaires covering ‘Vision, Games Concept and Strategy’ on Feb. 17, the first phase of the bid race.
The IOC requested 2024 bid leaders not to travel to Lausanne to minimize costs. Instead, a technical official from Rome 2024 will deliver the first dossier of three in the bidding contest that concludes with the IOC host city vote in September 2017.
Written by Mark Bisson
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