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Madrid and Barcelona: On the Road
Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:49 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 16 September With just sixteen days to go until the host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games is announced, the Madrid 2016 bid is stepping up its efforts to make the dream a reality. More >>
Madrid 2016 Olympics “Designed by Athletes"
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:58 pm | Madrid 2016
14 August 2009 The delegation leading Madrid’s bid to host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016 aim to learn as much as they can from the athletes own experiences at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin. More >>
Madrid: In Seven Years Today
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 3:37 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 5 August 2009 - Exactly seven years today would mark the opening of the Madrid 2016 Olympic Games, a 59 day festival of sport starting 5 August 2016, if Madrid is successful in its bid to host the 2016 Games. More >>
Spanish Culture Organisation Supports Madrid 2016
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 3:37 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 5 August 2009 - Madrid’s bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games received a huge boost today as the Instituto Cervantes pledged to promote Madrid 2016 throughout the world in the last months before the final decision in October. The Instituto ... More >>
Madrid: A Bid to Win
Friday, 31 July 2009, 12:11 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 30 July 2009 - Madrid’s bid for the 2016 Olympics is into the final lap. With two months until the IOC decides between Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo or Chicago to host the event, the Spanish capital is reaffirming its winning candidacy as a ... More >>
Madrid Open for the Holidays and the 2016 Olympics
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 12:57 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 29 July 2009 - Madrid is celebrating the fact it was the most visited city by foreign tourists last month. During June, 421,736 visitors passed through the Spanish capital – an increase of 7.6% on the same period last year. This adds to ... More >>
Madrid is “Magic” for Tennis
Saturday, 18 July 2009, 3:54 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid’s new “Magic Box” tennis centre would be a stunning Olympic venue in 2016, this week’s General Assembly of the International Tennis Federation has been told. More >>
Support For Paralympics
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:46 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 8 July 2009 - The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has confirmed the government’s commitment to Paralympic athletes and stated how he is convinced that the institutional and commercial promise to these athletes "gains ... More >>
Madrid 2016 Presents its Olympic Project to Africa
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:57 am | Madrid 2016
Gallardón reiterated Madrid’s promise to serve as a bridge between Africa and Europe, recalling Spain’s tenfold increase in economic aid to Western Africa Alejandro Blanco offered installations to the African Committees for use on the continent, ... More >>
Madrid warms up for 2016 with int. athletes
Monday, 6 July 2009, 9:13 am | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 3 July 2009 - Another date on the road to the 2016 Olympics being held in Madrid falls this weekend. The greatest athletics competition will hold its annual meeting and competition in the Spanish capital on 4 July. This event, incorporating ... More >>
Madrid Has “Olympic Soul” Says Mayor
Friday, 3 July 2009, 1:51 pm | Madrid 2016
The Mayor of Madrid has told an informal gathering of journalists in the Spanish capital that communicating the city’s Olympic bid will be crucial to winning the Games in 2016. More >>
Olympic Bid Boost: Spain In International Top Five
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 2:05 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 19 May 2009 - A report presented by the Reputation Institute in Madrid this week covering 27 countries and almost 34,000 people has confirmed Spain in fourth position for international reputation behind Switzerland, Canada and Italy. More >>
Coghen: “The Tour Was Spectacular”
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:13 pm | Madrid 2016
Mercedes Coghen, Madrid 2016 bid chief, and Manuel Cobo, vice-mayor of Madrid, summed up the day’s tour of the city’s Olympic venus which took place today with the members of the IOC’s Evaluation Commission as “spectacular”, with the visitors ... More >>
ASEAN Regional Forum Disaster Relief
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 1:18 pm | Madrid 2016
The Australian Defence Force, as well as representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and AusAID, are participating in the first ever Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum field activity, which will demonstrate ... More >>
“Madrid Is Ready” For 2016
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 1:15 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 5 May 2009 - Madrid’s 2016 bid team today announced that the city is ready to host the 2016 Games, as the IOC Evaluation Commission begins its visit. “This week, we will show the IOC and the world’s media that Madrid has everything in ... More >>
Transmitting Professionalism And Emotion
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 12:45 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid 2016 CEO, Mercedes Coghen, has spoken today to the media accompanied by the Vice-Mayor of Madrid, Manuel Cobo, to transmit their impressions of today’s meetings with the members of the Evaluation Commission from the International Olympic Committee ... More >>
The Perfect Olympics For The Media
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 1:55 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 1 May 2009 - Madrid 2016 will be the perfect Olympics and Paralympics for the media, bid leaders told the 2009 congress of the international sports press association (AIPS). More >>
72,000 Operatives To Watch Over Madrid 2016
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:32 pm | Madrid 2016
Madrid, 14 April 2009 - A large integrated presence of more than 63,000 members of the Spanish Brigades and Forces of the department for State Security, Armed Forces, Municipal Police, Fire Brigade and SAMUR Civil Defence will be charged with guaranteeing ... More >>
Green Games, realistic and ready
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 9:30 am | Madrid 2016
Queenstown, New Zealand – 31 March 2009: Representatives of the Madrid 2016 bid team bidding to host the Olympic & Paralympic Games have made their presentation to representatives of the Oceania National Olympic Committees in Queenstown, New ... More >>
Spanish leaders promote their Olympic bid
Friday, 27 March 2009, 12:10 pm | Madrid 2016
Leading figures from the worlds of politics and sport in Spain joined Madrid 2016 CEO Mercedes Coghen today on the podium at Sportaccord in Denver to commend their capital city’s bid to host the Olympic & Paralympic Games in 2016. Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, ... More >>
