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Olympic lobbying bandwagon heads to Africa

The Columbian
Published: July 10, 2013, 5:00pm

LONDON (AP) — The Olympic bandwagon heads to Africa this week with bid cities, presidential candidates and sports federations chasing votes in the final weeks of their election campaigns.

A meeting of African Olympic committees in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will be a hotbed of lobbying among the three cities bidding for the 2020 Olympics, the six contenders for IOC president and the three sports vying for a spot in the 2020 Games.

All three races are revving up before IOC voting in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Last week, the bid cities — Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo — and the presidential candidates made presentations to International Olympic Committee members in Lausanne, Switzerland.

There will be no presentations during the two-day general assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa.

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