Mayor: Copenhagen is too small to cope with Olympic Games

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Aug 7, 2008, 10:47 GMT

Copenhagen - Copenhagen - and Denmark - can forget about trying to organize the Olympic Games, the mayor of Copenhagen said Thursday during a visit to Beijing. 'After the Games in Athens four years ago many thought: Maybe Copenhagen as host city. But after what I have seen here in Beijing, I have to say it is out of the question,' Ritt Bjerregaard was quoted as telling the online edition of the newspaper Politiken. 'This is so big and so well-planned that neither Copenhagen or Denmark can carry out something similar. The Olympic Games are simply an event that are too big for a country of 5 million inhabitants,' Bjerregaard added. The mayor and members of her office are visiting Beijing for six days to study how the host city and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are organizing the games. Next year, Copenhagen is slated to host an IOC Congress where IOC delegates are to decide the host city for the 2016 games.

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