Madrid 2020 countdown: Third time lucky for the Spanish capital?
Saturday, September 7, 2013 @ 7:08 PM
Four hours and 10 minutes to go: Latest development: Spanish Olympic Committee quizzed over doping laws, and confirms it has launched a zero-tolerance policy on the crime and continues to monitor the situation closely.
OLYMPIC experts say 'anything could happen' during the voting tonight because the Committee is 'very unpredictable' – but the international media has high hopes that Madrid will be the host in 2020, which will be the first Spanish Olympic Games in 28 years.
Whilst residents in the capital chain themselves to lamp-posts in protest, considering that the money could be better spent on repairing the country's dire economy, and the International Olympic Committee (COI) has questioned whether it would be 'sensible policy' to do so given Spain's 27 per cent unemployment and enforced austerity measures, Spanish companies and foreign investors are keen to see it happen.
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