{"id":98881028,"date":"2011-07-13T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/istanbul-madrid-join-rome-in-pursuit-of-2020-olympic-bid\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:02:00","slug":"istanbul-madrid-join-rome-in-pursuit-of-2020-olympic-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/istanbul-madrid-join-rome-in-pursuit-of-2020-olympic-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul, Madrid Join Rome in Pursuit of 2020 Olympic Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWith the announcement last week that Pyeongchang, South Korea will the 2018 Winter Olympics, the race is now own for the 2020 Summer Games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, Madrid, Spain and Istanbul, Turkey both confirmed interest in hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe competing cities join Rome, Italy which declared a bid earlier this year. Many are speculating that Tokyo, Japan will announce its bid as early as next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deadline for cities to bid on the 2020 Games is July 29. The host city will be announced in 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/wire?section=oly&amp;id=6764800\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement last week that Pyeongchang, South Korea will the 2018 Winter Olympics, the race is now own for the 2020 Summer Games. &nbsp; Today, Madrid, Spain and Istanbul, Turkey both confirmed interest in hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics. &nbsp; The competing cities join Rome, Italy which declared a bid earlier this year. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}