Overview
- Munich held a high-profile briefing for the 42 national sport federations at SAP Garden and Schloss Nymphenburg on Thursday and Friday, and federation representatives publicly praised the city's detailed concept.
- The city pitched a reuse-first plan that leans on 1972 venues, places more than 90 percent of competition sites within about 30 kilometres, and builds Paralympic integration into venue planning.
- Bavarian leaders promised financial and security guarantees for a Munich bid, with Minister-President Markus Söder saying funding and safety would not block the project.
- All candidate dossiers are now being scored by the federations and the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB), which will present the evaluations to delegates before a final national vote in Baden-Baden on 26 September.
- Hamburg's May rejection narrowed the domestic field to Munich, Berlin and the Cologne‑Rhine‑Ruhr region while Munich's strong local referendum result and combined heritage‑plus‑technology pitch aim to show voters and the IOC a compact, lower‑build alternative to large new stadium projects.