{"id":37546,"date":"2011-07-11T00:14:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=37546"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:14:53","slug":"madrid-and-istanbul-set-for-2020-games-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/11\/madrid-and-istanbul-set-for-2020-games-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid and Istanbul set for 2020 Games bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durban (dpa) &#8211; Madrid and Istanbul will make bids to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Olympic officials said in Durban Friday.<\/p>\n<p>So far only Italian capital Rome has been officially confirmed as a candidate, but several other cities have expressed an interest.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Blanco, president of Spain&#8217;s National Olympic Committee, told German Press Agency dpa there was &#8220;no doubt&#8221; that a Madrid bid would be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>IOC Executive Board member Richard Carrion said Istanbul was also going to make a bid.<\/p>\n<p>Cities interested in hosting the 2020 Games must register by September 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Summer Olympics are in London and the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>via digibet.info \u00b7 Madrid and Istanbul set for 2020 Games bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban (dpa) &#8211; Madrid and Istanbul will make bids to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Olympic officials said in Durban Friday. So far only Italian capital Rome has been officially confirmed as a candidate, but several other cities have expressed an interest. Alejandro Blanco, president of Spain&#8217;s National Olympic Committee, told German Press Agency dpa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[5634],"class_list":["post-37546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-2020-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}