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Budapest’s Municipal Council has today (Wednesday) authorised Mayor Istvan Tarlos to discuss the city’s faltering bid for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games with the national government and Olympic committee, but rejected an attempt to bring forward a potential referendum on the matter.
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Budapest 2024 chairman Balázs Fürjes has conceded that the Hungarian capital’s bid for the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has likely “ran aground” as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach labelled the uncertainty surrounding the bid as the work of a political group that is seeking to “make a name” for itself.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is faced with the prospect of the bid race for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games being reduced to two contenders after a threshold was met to stage a referendum on Budapest’s bid.
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The teams behind Budapest, Los Angeles and Paris’ bids for the 2024 summer Olympic Games are now allowed to promote their projects outside their national boundaries after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the start of the final phase of the candidature process.
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Budapest 2024 has today (Thursday) hailed a “magnificent endorsement” of its plans to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games as the city assembly gave its backing for the final candidature submission for the bid.
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The organising committee behind Budapest’s bid to stage the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has claimed that public support for the endeavour has increased significantly in Hungary over the past six months amid fresh moves for a referendum on the project.
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Hungarian youth organisation Momentum Mozgalom is poised to launch the latest effort to force a referendum in Budapest against the capital city’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Officials at the Hungaroring in Budapest, Hungary, have announced plans to bid to host a MotoGP motorcycling championship event at the revamped track in 2018.
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Hungary’s supreme court has rejected the latest effort to hold a national referendum on Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Budapest 2024 has today (Wednesday) hailed the abandonment of a proposed citywide referendum on its bid for the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games saying the move proves the proposal was a “damp squib”.
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The TCR International Series has added four new races to its calendar for the 2017 season, with Georgia set to stage a major motorsport event for the first time.
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Alisher Usmanov has been re-elected as president of the International Fencing Federation (FIE), while the global governing body has also assigned hosting rights to its 2018 Cadet and Junior World Championships and 2019 Senior World Championships.
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The role of the Hungarian Olympic Committee will remain unchanged in relation to Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games despite sweeping reforms of the country’s sports administration structure.

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Budapest 2024 has seen the latest attempt to call a referendum on its bid for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games rejected by Hungary’s National Election Committee.

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United World Wrestling, the sport’s global governing body, has awarded hosting rights to its 2018 World Championships to the Hungarian capital of Budapest.

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Budapest 2024, the organising committee behind the Hungarian capital city’s bid to host the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, has appointed Attila Mihók as its new chief executive, following the resignation of Miklós Fekete.

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Fina, the global governing body for aquatic sports, has revealed that five bidders have come forward for the hosting rights to its World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2022 and 2024, including the Russian city of Kazan.

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Budapest, backed by the Hungarian capital’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games, has launched a new Urban Games initiative, while a senior Rome 2024 executive has expressed her confidence that Mayor Virginia Raggi will rally around its bid.