Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend Z.Safarov /Marquis Juan Antonio Samaranch, the honorable President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the main trump for Madrid in the struggle to hold the Olympic Games there in 2016. Baku is also bidding to host the Games.
The former President of the IOC asked the organizers of the Olympiad in Beijing to support the application of Madrid. " Madrid is keen to hold the 2016 Olympic Games", Juan Antonio Samaranch said during the yearly Spain - China forum, which was held in Madrid. "And we also hope that our Chinese friends will help us as we did it before during the organization of the 2008 Olympic Games, Trend reports citing allsport.ru.
Beijing was elected the capital of the 2008 Olympic Games at the 112th session of the OIC in Moscow in 2001, over Paris which was considered the favorite. It was the last session for Juan Antonio Samaranch as the president of IOC, and according to unofficial data, he asked his counterparts to fulfill his desire to hold the Games in China.