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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) is sticking to the Olympic plans for the Rhine-Ruhr region.
"I want to continue fighting for this application," he said on Wednesday in a current hour of the Düsseldorf state parliament.
Laschet criticized the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to negotiate exclusively with Brisbane, Australia, about hosting the Games in 2032.
"In any case, sustainability and transparency were not the main motivation of the IOC," said the Prime Minister.
"We will keep our offer up," Laschet assured.
The NRW head of government does not rule out an application for the Olympic Games in 2036.
Just 100 years after the 1936 games in Berlin, it would be a signal to go “to the most multicultural region in all of Europe”, said Laschet.
On the other hand, the President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), Alfons Hörmann, emphasized that he lacked “imagination and imagination as to how to implement Games in 2036”.
But there are also many people in the DOSB who rate it differently.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210303-99-668102 / 2
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