President Andrzej Duda said that Poland has made efforts to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games. The decision was announced in Zakopane, where the President was attending the European Congress of Sport and Tourism 2023.

‘After the consultations we had with the head of the Polish Olympic Committee, with the Minister of Sport, with his colleagues, with the government, I want to announce that it is our ambition and intention to start efforts for the Summer Olympic Games in our country in 2036’, announced the President on Wednesday.

Andrzej Duda pointed out that the success of the two major events organised in Poland and the success of the ongoing investment plans in our country prompted him to make efforts for the biggest possible sporting event in the world, namely the Summer Olympic Games.

‘We are convinced that by 2036 we will have a Central Transport Port and a network of road connections. In terms of infrastructure, we should therefore be ready for such a project’, stressed the president.

So far, three candidates for hosting the 2036 Games have officially emerged: Mexico (Guadalajara-Mexico-Monterrey-Tijuana), Indonesia (Nusantara) and Turkey (Istanbul).

Egypt (Cairo), South Korea (Seoul), India (Ahmedabad), Qatar (Doha), Hungary (Budapest), Italy (Florence-Bologna), Denmark (Copenhagen) are also considering competing for the right to host the world’s biggest sporting event.

The next summer Games will be held next year in Paris, with the next two events in Los Angeles (2028) and Australia’s Brisbane (2032). So far, Poland has only applied once for the right to host the Games – in 2006, the Winter Olympics could have been hosted in Krakow and Zakopane, but IOC members voted in the first round for Torino.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński