Egypt said she was also considering applying for this 36th edition of the summer Olympiads.
Le Monde with AFP
The Olympic Games (OJ) and Mexico will be eternally associated with the 1968 edition and this image, which has gone around the world, showing the American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, a gloved fist and hand Raised to the sky, on the podium during the national anthem, to symbolize the unity of the black people in the face of racial segregation in the United States.
Mexico would like to reconnect the Olympic thread sixty-eight years later, and announced, Wednesday, October 26, its official candidacy to welcome the summer Olympics of 2036, for the second time in its history.
“Six months from its hundredth anniversary, the Mexican Olympic Committee is proud to start the way to a new organization of the Olympic Games in 2036,” said committee president Maria José Alcala, former Olympic diver.
co -organizer of the Football World Cup in 2026
Approved by the International Olympic Committee (CIO), the candidacy of Mexico is currently the only one in the running. Egypt said it was considering applying.
According to Maria José Alcala, mentalities have evolved within the IOC: “The Olympic Games have changed, the chairman of the committee, Thomas Bach, made sure that the countries could participate without being in debt, without having to make big economic exploits, but simply by offering sites with a large capacity for organization and sustainability. “
“If Mexico offers something, it is because it will do it,” said Marcelo Ebrard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mexico is “a sporting power that will host the [football] World Cup in 2026, the only country to welcome it three times”, after 1970 and 1986, he recalled. Unlike these two previous editions, Mexico will welcome, with the United States and Canada, the World Football in four years.
Pending 2036, the next summer Olympics will take place in Paris in 2024, in Los Angeles (United States) in 2028, and in Brisbane (Australia) in 2032.