
City drops bids for 2036, 2040 or 2044 due to lack of political stability
Berlin has officially withdrawn its bid to host the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympics, citing a lack of political stability after the Die Linke party's rejection.
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Berlin withdrew its Olympic bid due to political instability and lack of support from the Die Linke party.
Berlin has officially withdrawn its bid to host the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympic Games, leaving Munich and Cologne/Rhine-Ruhr as the only remaining candidates. The German Olympic Committee (DOSB) will give its ruling on Saturday.
“We simply could not offer the necessary political stability,” Kaweh Niroomand, head of Berlin's bid and a former volleyball player and coach, said at a news conference.
Elif Eralp, the leading candidate of the Die Linke (Left) party, which won the most votes in Sunday's Berlin regional elections with 25% of the vote, announced on Monday that she would not support an Olympic bid.
"I have never presented myself at a press conference with such reluctance. Today is a sad day for Berlin. The Olympic and Paralympic Games would have been an extraordinary opportunity. For Berlin, for East Germany and for future generations", underlined the outgoing mayor, Kai Wegner, a member of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU party.
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