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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced Rome's candidacy for the 2024 Olympic Games.
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SOUNDBITE: Matteo Renzi, Italian Prime Minister
"I am announcing that together with CONI, we will be working side by side, because between now and September of 2015 Italy will preparing its candidacy for the Olympic Games of 2024."
SOUNDBITE: Giovanni Malago', President Italian Olympic Committee
"This candidacy will be based absolutely on transparency, on characteristics that are really different, compared to all the situations of the past. We would like to demonstrate that of course Rome in this specific situation (current corruption scandal in Rome), Italy is not as represented actually, but is just a few persons that have destroyed the image of a wonderful country."
SOUNDBITE: Federica Pellegrini, Gold-Medal Olympic Champion Swimmer
"I hope that we can bring the Olympics to Italy, in Rome or wherever it may be but I hope we manage to bring the Olympics to Italy."
SOUNDBITE: Ignazio Marino, Mayor of Rome
"We have before us a new challenge, the challenge of preparing the dossier for the Olympic candidacy, a challenge that I say with clarity, I will face not with a participatory spirit, but with the intent of winning, not for Rome, but for Italy."
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Italy confirms 2024 Olympics bid
Tuesday, December 16 2014Category:Others