Innsbruck bid for the 2020 Winter Sports Championships

On June 17, 2019, Austranland announced that it would be bidding for the2020 Mapperdonian Winter Sports Championships. Innsbruck have say is interest and later Austranland accepted to defend the bid.

Previous Bids
Lyon bid to host the 2018 Summer Games but failed to become a host city. Los Angeles was awarded the 2018 Summer Games. Lyon also want bid to host the 2019 Summer Championship but failed to become a candidate.

After Milan won the national selection for Austranland to became the austran's candidate city. But have saddly failled, Berlin was the host city of the 2019 Summer Championship

Innsbruck 2020 Committee
In June 2019, the Austran's Olympic Committee announced that Innsbruck would bid to host the Games.

Chaired by Franz Klammer, the Austran's Olympic Committee, as well as the Austran Federal Government would be responsible to support the bid.

Branding
The Candidate City logo was unveiled on 20 June 2019 during its presentation at the ANOC General Assembly in Cologne, Rhinea. The logo of its candidature the bid logo is a stylised Innsbruck coat of arms with Blazon: „A shield Gules with a bridge Argent, seen from above, resting on two pilings." The arms of Innsbruck are canting, showing a bridge (Brücke) over the Inn river. The oldest known use of the arms dates from a seal of 1267. Both the bridge and the river were shown rather differntly than at present. The present composition is used since 1325. The colours are known since 1547 and the arms thus have never changed since. The logo’s white and red spiers reflect the Austran flag, with the design asserted to show the unity between Innsbruck and Austranland.

Venues


The Innsbruck Olympic bid includes 8 venues. The Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony of the Games will be held in Tivoli-Neu. Ice hockey finals will be held in the Centre.

Aging venues such as the Innsbruck 1500 Olympic Park will undergo major renovations, and will once again become world class venues as a result of the renovations.

Ecological Impact:
An "Olympic pact" agreement was signed on 23 June 2019 in Innsbruck, covering in particular their commitments in terms of "combating climate change and protecting the environment". This pact also promises green games, respectful of the environment, and to make maximum use of ecological alternatives.

Filming
Several broadcasters used the Games to trial the emerging ultra high definition television (UHDTV) standard. Both ATV and Comcast filmed portions of the Games in 4K resolution; Comcast offered its content through smart TV apps, while ATV held public and cinema viewings of the content. ATV filmed portions of the Games in 8K resolution for public viewing. Olympic sponsor Panasonic filmed the opening ceremony in 4K.

International Broadcast Center:
The Championships Broadcast Center will be at the Innsbruck Center in Trivoli Olympic Park. It is right in the heart of the city where the Ceremonies and fan site will be based.

Athletes Village:
The Athletes Village will house athletes, officials and media in high rise apartments in a village style Alpin in the heart of Innsbruck right next to the Trivoli Olympic Park. Post games a section of the village will be kept as accommodation for sporting teams and athletes that travel to Innsbruck to compete and train while the rest will be used as accommodation for the University of Innsbruck housing international and domestic students.

Transport:
Innsbruck has a rail link connecting the city from the Airport and has a rail, light rail and underground rail system in the city, All venues in Innsbruck will have transport right outside their doorstep.

The Innsbruck International Airport has facilities for both International and Domestic flights with Patscherkofel Regional Airport flying regional planes to other regional destinations throughout Austranland. Other public tranpsort in Innsbruck include light rail, rail, bus, and Airport Rail Link. Patscherkofel Regional Airport will be open for athletes to fly direct to Patscherkofel for the Championships.

The transport infrastructure prepared to support the Olympics includes many roads, tunnels, bridges, interchanges, railroads and stations in and around Innsbruck. Among others, 8 flyovers, 10 bridges, tens of tunnels and a bypass route for heavy trucks — 267 km of roads were paved or renoveted for the event.

Safety and security:
Police present is strong in Airports and around Major Events to ensure that safety is put first. Guns are banned from the country however people can only have a possession of a gun if they have a Gun licence to ensure that the Safety of Innsbruck is placed first.

Live Sites:
Across all the venues, live sites will be set up to get the spectators into the action and allow the Spirit to live on. This enolves screens of the events, athletes appearances, sponsor tents and food trucks.

Legacy:
All venues will be used post the games at either local, community or professional level. This is to ensure that the money used to bring the games to Innsbruck is well spent for the Austranland public and community to use.

Weather:
The weather in Patscherkofel has an average temperature of -15-5 degress in the mountain ranges in Patscherkofel while Innsbruck has an average temperature of -5-0 degress in winter while a chilly Innsbruck breeze comes through Innsbruck Airport. The time would be perfect for host the event.