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No Olympic application from Östersund

Sports | 2012-03-09 | 6 comments

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The plans for Östersund to apply for the 2022 Winter Olympics seem to be canceled. The reason is lack of support from the government. Minister for Culture and Sports Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth (Moderate Party) has announced that the government will not give state financial guarantees for the Olympics and Östersund can therefore not proceed. The reason is a wish to protect the public finances.

The government is however not unanimous on the issue. Minister for Enterprise Annie Lööf (Center Party) says she want more international sport events in Sweden and wishes the government to consider the question once more. But as it seems now, there will be no application from Östersund.

(SvD)

Tommie Ullman

tommie.ullman@stockholmnews.com

Readers' comments

2012-03-26 17:43 Hamid wrote:

Let´s print new money , Bank of sweden , come on !

2012-03-23 01:43 Ivan32 wrote:

Banksters and policy have fault about it for sure.

2012-03-15 19:07 Frederick56 wrote:

International banking groups don´t wold give no money anymore and policy in knowit well ,Fed reserve supply all the lack of resorces to the european banks , not to the democratic governments , we have to print a new flood of kronen because it´s unfair working until 75 y.o.

2012-03-14 16:42 drinker-forever wrote:

swedes are tired to see the public resources for pro-lobbies projects , we want to see invest money for social aids to the common people and checking strongly all extracomunitarians , in everywhere of our country we see a terrific excalation of violence ,we need of money ? let´s print it by our National bank avoiding the sharks of fed and euro-circus !!!!! :-))

2012-03-11 01:38 Jan_kustammaki wrote:

Of course , they have to build arms factory in Arabia without the willing of swedes . It´s a time of lack of money for many projects . ))

2012-03-10 17:38 ibrahimovic_for_president wrote:

yes , we are busy to build something in Saudi Arabia...