Host City Selection
Tokyo won the rights to the Games on May 26, 1959, at the 55th IOC Session in Munich, West Germany, over bids from Detroit, Brussels and Vienna.
| 1964 Summer Olympics bidding result | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | Round 1 | ||||
| Tokyo | Japan | 34 | ||||
| Detroit | United States | 10 | ||||
| Vienna | Austria | 9 | ||||
| Brussels | Belgium | 5 | ||||
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Famous quotes containing the words host, city and/or selection:
“When the guests have left, the host is at peace.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Judge Ginsburg’s selection should be a model—chosen on merit and not ideology, despite some naysaying, with little advance publicity. Her treatment could begin to overturn a terrible precedent: that is, that the most terrifying sentence among the accomplished in America has become, “Honey—the White House is on the phone.””
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)