Three Bidders for 2025 World Games

(ATR) Cities in Europe, Asia and South America have shown early interest in hosting the 2025 World Games.

The next steps for the bid cities will not be released until the beginning of 2018, International World Games AssociationVice President Max Bishop tells Around the Rings.

"Full details of what is required from bidding cities and how the selection procedure works will be published then," he states.

Any other cities can indicate their interest by contacting the IWGA head office, which this week was relocated to the building in Lausanne that formerly housed the International Gymnastics Federation headquarters.

The quadrennial event will take place this year inWroclaw, Poland from July 20-30.

The World Games in Poland intend to draw approximately 4,500 athletes and officials from more than 100 countries to participate.The event features more than 25 non-Olympic sports including dance sport, squash, tug of war and sumo.

Events previously listed on the World Games program including badminton, beach volleyball and rugby sevens have been discontinued because they have been named to the Olympic program.

Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama has already been chosen to host the next edition of the event in 2021.

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Written by Courtney Colquitt

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