Chile intends to utilize the National Stadium Sports Complex in the country’s capital as well as other facilities and infrastructure built for the Santiago 2023 Games to host the Olympics in 2036.
Officials in Chile say their country is deep in discussions with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are among other regions waiting to move forward to present their bids to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2036.
Chilean Sports Minister Jaime Pizarro told Spanish news agency EFE that his government is ready to extend important state guarantees in efforts to support the bid.
“The State is the guarantor of ensuring the development and organization of infrastructure or coordination spaces, so that it can effectively materialize in a good way,” Pizarro said on the sidelines of the Panam Sports (PASO) General Assembly held this week in Asunción, Paraguay.
According to a Sport Ministry post on social media platform X, IOC President Thomas Bach attended the assembly and met with Pizarro and President Miguel Ángel Mujica of the Chilean Olympic Committee (COC). Bach had spoken to the assembled members during Neven Ilic’s reelection as PASO president.
Pizarro used the planning of the Pan American Games in Santiago in 2023, where three countries worked together to make the event happen, as evidence of his devotion to the cause.
As part of a murky bidding procedure that the IOC has not publicly disclosed, officials of the Chilean candidacy met with the IOC Future Host Commission in France alongside representatives from other countries during the Paris 2024 Games.
“We took part, drawing on all the knowledge we had acquired from the Pan American and Parapan American Games.”
