(ATR) Krakow is out of the 2022 Olympics race after failing to win the support of city residents in Sunday's referendum on the bid.
Polish media report that 70 percent of the Krakow’s population voted "Nie" to a proposal to pursue the quest to bring the 2022 Olympics to the city.
The turnout was 34 percent, with a minimum of 30 percent needed for the vote to be valid.
Poland’s second largest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza is among news outlets reporting the referendum has killed Krakow’s bid.
A bid spokesman tells Around the Rings that official results are expected later this morning.
Krakow will now withdraw from the 2022 Olympic bidding contest.
The referendum result leaves only Almaty, Beijing, Lviv and Oslo left in the race, one of the weakest set of bidders for an Olympics in more than a decade.
Krakow’s exit is a significant blow for the IOC as it prepares to shortlist candidate cities for the 2022 Games, with two other bids in jeopardy.
Lviv 2022 is on the brink of departing the bid race because of the lack of governmental and financial support linked to the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Oslo is struggling to win governmental support; one of the coalition partners decided two weeks ago to oppose the Norwegian city's Olympic quest, casting doubt over the bid's future.
The IOC Executive Board will hope to shortlist at least three cities when it meets in Lausanne in the first week of July.
Written by Mark Bisson.
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