Baku 2020 bid is far better than 2016, promises chief executive
By Tom Degun in Lausanne
February 14 - Konul Nurullayeva
(pictured right), chief executive of Baku 2020, has claimed the Azerbaijani capital's latest attempt to host the Olympics and Paralympics is far more professional than their previous failed bid for 2016 as she today led the delegation that delivered the cities' Applicant File to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
February 14 - Konul Nurullayeva
(pictured right), chief executive of Baku 2020, has claimed the Azerbaijani capital's latest attempt to host the Olympics and Paralympics is far more professional than their previous failed bid for 2016 as she today led the delegation that delivered the cities' Applicant File to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
February 14 - Rome is pulling out of the race for the 2020 Olympics, according to an Italian press report.
February 14 - Madrid have today delivered their Applicant City file for their bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics one day ahead of the deadline on tomorrow evening.
February 13 - Rome's proposed campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is hanging in the balance tonight - less than 48 hours before the Applicant City file is due to be delivered - after confusion emerged about whether or not Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti has a meeting scheduled tomorrow to discuss the bid.
February 13 - Doha's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has promised to increase the opportunities offered to girls and women in the Middle East, according to the Applicant City file, which was officially handed in today.
February 13 - Tokyo today delivered their Applicant City file for their bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, two days ahead of the deadline on Wednesday (February 15).
February 13 - Doha are confident that they have satisfactorily answered the doubts surrounding their bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics when they today become the first city to today hand in their Applicant File.
February 11 - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will make a decision on whether Rome will bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics on Monday (February 13) after returning from the United States, where he has been visiting President Barack Obama.
February 10 - Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has received a major boost just days before the application file submission for the event after two new sets of data published underlined the huge strength and stability of the Turkish economy.
February 7 - Baku 2020 has appointed Elkhan Mammadov, the general secretary of the Azerbaijani Football Association (AFFA), as its new head of communications for its bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
February 5 - Thomas Bach (pictured), vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has claimed that the high quality of the six bidders competing to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has put his organisation in a very comfortable position ahead of the all-important vote next year.
February 3 - Rome must continue to play a waiting game to see whether they will be able to bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti refused to be rushed into a decision amid a warning from Mario Pescante that the delay could prove fatal to the campaign even if does go-ahead.
February 2 - Baku officials claim that the fact so many major hotel chains are choosing to open new premises in the Azerbaijan capital is an endorsement for their bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
February 1 - Yuko Arakida, a member of the Japanese volleyball team that won the Olympic gold medal at Montreal in 1976, has been appointed as the sports director of Tokyo 2020, it was announced today.
