Host Selection
On September 18, 2002 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the FEI awarded the 2006 Games to Aachen. The only other host city applicant was Lexington, Kentucky, United States (which was later awarded the following edition of the Games in 2010).
Read more about this topic: 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games
Famous quotes containing the words host and/or selection:
“When the guests have left, the host is at peace.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)