A majority of Berlin residents supports the city’s planned Olympic bid but the backing is less than at a first survey conducted three months ago.<\/p>\n
The survey by the Dimap institute commissioned by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said that 38% said “yes” and 18% “more or less yes” when asked whether they backed the bid.<\/p>\n
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At the other end, 25% said “no” and 13% “more or less no.”<\/p>\n
In March, 60% supported the bid which means a drop of 4%. The opposition to the bid rose by 7% from 31%.<\/p>\n
The survey was conducted May 26-30 among 1,205 people in the German capital.<\/p>\n
Berlin’s Olympics commissioner Kaweh Niroomand said that “56% backing are a strong result and show that the majority of Berliners know about the opportunities an Olympic bid offers.”<\/p>\n
Berlin is competing against Munich and a Cologne led Rhine-Ruhr area bid for the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Games. The DOSB will select the bidder and the year on September 26.<\/p>\n
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Munich’s bid has been backed by 66.4% in a referendum and Cologne\/Rhine-Ruhr by 66%. Berlin has no referendum but parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n
A fourth candidate, Hamburg, dropped out on Sunday after a large majority of 54.9% opposed their bid in a referendum.<\/p>\n
Germany has hosted Summer Olympics 1936 in Berlin and 1972 in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A majority of Berlin residents supports the city’s planned Olympic bid but the backing is less than at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,51145,190,40430],"class_list":["post-99258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-dosb","tag-germany","tag-olympic-bid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116688480399780765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}