Host City Selection
On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest (being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games.
| 1960 Summer Olympics bidding results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||
| Rome | Italy | 15 | 26 | 35 | ||
| Lausanne | Switzerland | 14 | 21 | 24 | ||
| Detroit | United States | 6 | 11 | — | ||
| Budapest | Hungary | 8 | 1 | — | ||
| Brussels | Belgium | 6 | — | — | ||
| Mexico City | Mexico | 6 | — | — | ||
| Tokyo | Japan | 4 | — | — | ||
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—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time,
The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
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