The battle to organize the 2040 Games begins, with the first major candidate

Although there are still 16 years, the possible candidates for the 2040 Olympic Games are starting to move. Germany’s federal government will approve a resolution this Wednesday for a city in the country to seek to host the event.as revealed by ZDF, the second German public television channel.

According to the information, though The original idea was to try to host the 2036 Olympics, coinciding with the centenary of the first Olympics held by Berlin.the fact that they evoke the memory of Nazi Germany will advise the country’s political authorities to look for “at a later date.”

The ZDF also added that in the next budget 2.2 million euros will be allocated for the application process.

For its part, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), added information, wants to decide on the itinerary to follow to prepare the candidacy at its general meeting on December 7.

“Certainly in the first half of 2025 we will explain who the applicant is, what we are doing and how we will proceed“, said the president of DOSB, Thomas Weikert, on Saturday on the same public channel.

Weikert and the general secretary of the organization, Torsten Burmester, met in April with the chancellor Olaf Scholz, and the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, to ask for possible support from the Government, which seems to have had a positive result.

ZDF decided that Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and the Rhine-Ruhr region have expressed interest in a possible Olympic and Paralympic Games in Germanyalthough the claim that they are in Berlin is in the agreement of the coalition of the parties that make up the Government.