ROME, ITALY – Premier Matteo Renzi on Monday December 15, 2014, announced that Italy will stage a bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics.
“We’ll run with the spirit of participating of (modern Olympics father Pierre) de Coubertin. And we’ll run to win, be sure of that,” Renzi said during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).
The premier said that the bid will be centred on Rome. Recent changes to International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules make it possible for Olympic host countries to hold events in several places, rather than concentrating them in one city, and spread the huge burden.
Rome’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics was dropped in February 2012 by then-premier Mario Monti who said that Italy, could not afford such an expensive venture due to its economic situation
Rome hosted the 1960 Olympics and carried off a largely successful edition of the World Swimming Championships in 2009. Italy has also hosted the Winter Olympics twice, with Turin in 2006 and Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1956.