MrT-Tar said:
PS. Spain held the Olympics back in 1992, 20 years is quite a short space of time between two summer olympic games in one country. U.K and France (the two main finalists, last held Olympics back in 1948 and 1924 respectively if my memory serves me correctly. And even in 1948, the Government was planning to give the 1948 London Olympics to the US due to rationing and funding problems, but that's another story. |
PS: Those games where held in Barcelona; Madrid is the only major European capital that has never hosted the olympics. And that 20 years interval has been no problem in the past, USA had a 12 year interval and Paris had 24 years between their summer games (they've already held two), and London with 2012 will have celebrated three times in total. BTW Madrid won the second round in the bidding, but the NY votes went to London and Paris respectively. Samething happened with Rio, the US votes went directly to Rio though Madrid reached the final there. So 2020.
