GamesBids poll shows over 50 % support Baku 2020 Olympic bid
Baku, February 9 (AZERTAC). A poll conducted by GamesBids website (www.gamesbids.com/eng/) shows that 50,63 per cent of the respondents support Baku’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Responding to the polling question “Which city do you support to win the 2020 Olympic bid?”, 50.63% of respondents answered ‘Baku’.
The Azerbaijan’s capital gained 10,252 votes leaving behind Istanbul (16.29%), Tokyo (12.86%), Madrid (10.89%), Doha (5.61%) and Rome (3.72%).
Commenting on the results of the poll, CEO of the Steering Committee Baku 2020 Konul Nurullayeva said: “The results of the poll are undoubtedly encouraging. GamesBids is quite an influential website, specialized in Olympic subject. The city has won over 50% of votes - it is rather impressive. I am sure that if we get the right to host the Olympics, 2020 Games will be among the best in history”.
GamesBids.com is an Olympic bid news and information web site. The site operates generally addressing and analysing the overall Olympic bid business. The site publishes and regularly updates the BidIndex, an Olympic bid rating system in which the relative strength of the different bids and their chances of succeeding is measured.
The BidIndex was correct when it predicted Beijing, though wrong with Vancouver and London. The prediction model is further enhanced after each bid. Recently, BidIndex accurately predicted Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Pyeongchang for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Many international websites, newspapers, and news stations have mentioned Gamesbids in connection to the Olympic Movement, for instance the International Herald Tribune. It is one of several publications that cover the Olympics.
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