Madrid's 2020 vision blurred by doping and financial crisis
Monday, September 9, 2013 @ 12:38 PM
SPAIN'S capital has in fact lost its Olympic bid four times, not three – but its first-ever attempt is a distant memory, since it was in 1960 with the hope of hosting the 1972 Games.
And after losing out three times consecutively since the Millennium – Madrid faced disappointment in September 2005, 2009 and now 2013 whilst London got the Games in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and this weekend, Tokyo won its 2020 bid – another attempt looks extremely unlikely.
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