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Poland wants to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2036, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday.
“I would like to announce, after consultations with the Polish Olympic Committee, with the minister of sport, and with the government, that our ambition and intention is to start efforts to organize the Summer Olympic Games in 2036,” Duda said, according to local news reports.
Poland — which has never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympics — will compete against bids from, so far, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey.
“I can promise that we will do everything to organize these games in Poland,” the president of the Polish Olympic Committee, Radosław Piesiewicz, said Wednesday in response to Duda’s announcement.
While hosting the Olympics brings prestige to cities that win the right to stage the event, some economists have argued that ultimately it’s a bad financial deal.
Next year’s Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, followed by Los Angeles in 2028 and Brisbane, Australia in 2032.
