US and UK join race to host WEG 2018
The continuing drama over the 2018 World Equestrian Games has taken some other pace with the USA too Britain entering the motion painting equally possible hosts of the event.
Originally, 5 cities had their hats inwards the telephone to host WEG 2018, but 1 past times one, they dropped out, leaving Bromont inwards Canada equally the exclusively contender.
Rabat (Morocco), Budapest (Hungary); Vienna (Austria) too Wellington (Florida, USA) reached Official Candidate condition before dropping out.
Britain has non withal proposed a host city, but the re-emergence of the USA equally a possible host brings 2 possibilities into the frame. The 2010 WEG host of Lexington, Kentucky, has proven it has the goods to produce the lawsuit justice, but Wellington inwards Florida, the wintertime equestrian sports working capital alphabetic lineament of the USA, is besides inwards the picture.
It is non withal clear which entities are behind the latest USA bid.
The before bid was past times Equestrian Sport Productions (ESP), which owns too operates Wellington’s world-renowned Winter Equestrian Festival, in Florida. It pulled out of the running inwards July 2012, citing political differences betwixt the organisers too the town’s local hamlet council.
Plans for the Games inwards Florida revolved closed to the edifice of a commercial equestrian complex, but local regime councillors were worried over whether the town had the infrastructure to back upwardly such a major facility.
Morocco pulled out inwards Oct 2012, too Vienna, Republic of Austria withdrew inwards January.
This left many thinking Bromont – the site of the 1976 Olympic equestrian events – would last a shoe-in to host WEG 2018.
However, the FEI re-opened the bidding procedure on July 1, maxim that the Canadian delegation to its bureau coming together was unable to supply the total world sector fiscal back upwardly that was required before an allotment could last made.
As a result, the Bureau re-opened the bidding procedure for 2018, but expressed the promise that Canada would confirm its determination to proceed inwards the bidding process. The Bureau made it clear at the fourth dimension that whatever follow-up bid from Canada would last evaluated inwards the same agency equally other applicants.
Great Britain volition create got to confirm its proposed host metropolis with the FEI before the Nov xv deadline for receipt of Bid Applicant Questionnaires, which will last reviewed past times the Evaluation Commission at FEI Headquarters before the candidates are announced on Dec 2.
In the concluding phase of the bidding process, the Candidates volition formally acquaint their bids to the FEI Bureau at its boundary 2014 meeting, afterwards which the host metropolis for the FEI World Equestrian Games 2018 volition last announced.
“The FEI World Equestrian Games is our flagship event, appealing to huge global audiences of equestrian enthusiasts too sports fans, too these expressions of involvement past times Britain too the USA amongst Canada are testament to the ability of these Games,” FEI Secretary General Ingmar de Vos said.
“We are straight off looking forrard to receiving the Bid Applicant Questionnaires adjacent month, to naming the candidates inwards Dec too ultimately of course of report to announcing the host metropolis for the FEI World Equestrian Games 2018 adjacent year.”
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