Rome Bid For The 2020 Summer Olympics

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rome 2020 (Italian: Roma 2020) is a bid by the city of Rome to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. The city previously hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics.The IOC will announce the official candidate cities in May 2012. The winning bid will be announced on September 7, 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) announced the selection of Rome as Italy's candidate on May 19, 2010. Rome beat out Venice to be selected as CONI's bidding city for 2020. CONI did not select Venice because it was deemed unable to fulfill requirements set by the IOC for hosting the games. Among others, it relied too heavily on venues outside the city, including in Treviso and Padua.