Madrid - Madrid expressed again Thursday its confidence in being chosen to host the 2016 Olympic Games, and stressed that the ongoing financial and economic crisis would not prevent Spain from organizing the world's largest sports event.
'Here we can hold the Games with or without a crisis, with a very concrete argument: in this country, most of the investment has already been made,' said Juan Antonio Samaranch, son of the former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Spain's only representative in that organ. Full report from Monsters&Critics
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