Potential Cities Overview
- Several Australian cities expressed interest, such as Brisbane.
- Bangkok, Thailand expressed much enthusiasm after their strong performance in the 2004 Games, but instead applied to host the 2010 Youth Games.
- Brussels, Belgium showed interest after some politicians considered an organisation between a Belgian city and a Dutch City after the Euro 2000 co-organized by both countries.
- Buenos Aires, Argentina participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics bid
- Cape Town and Durban, South Africa expressed interest.
- Delhi, India was originally set to enter a bid; however, in April 2007 it announced it would bid for the 2020 games instead.
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates was also posed to make a serious bid, but in the end did not for unknown reasons.
- Fukuoka and Sapporo were other internal candidates eliminated by the JOC.
- Houston and Philadelphia were eliminated by the USOC, San Francisco withdrew when it lost stadium funding and Los Angeles lost to Chicago for the bid.
- Istanbul, Turkey broke with its standing policy to bid for every game, but vowed to try again.
- Lisbon, Portugal considered bidding.
- Monterrey The Mexican Olympic committee declined to place a bid.
- Montreal and Toronto expressed interest, but Canada abandoned any plans for a bid after Vancouver won the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- Nairobi, Kenya The sports minister expressed interest in a bid, but the Kenyan Olympics head said it was not the right time.
- Rome, Italy was a leading candidate for a time, but they pulled out, preferring to wait for 2020.
- São Paulo was considered, but the Brazilian Olympic Committee opted for Rio de Janeiro.
- / San Diego and Tijuana discussed a joint bid for what would have been the first binational Olympics.
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