"Turkey ready to host 2020 Olympics, says senior government official
By Gerard Meagher, Sportsbeat
TURKEY is ready to host the Olympics according to a senior government official who admitted a bid for the 2020 Games was likely.
Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, was conspicuous by its absence in the 2016 Olympic bidding process, having applied to host the three previous Summer Games.
The closest it came was for the 2008 Games which saw Istanbul eliminated second from the five candidate cities at the International Olympic Committee Session in Moscow in 2001."
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