Are the Olympic Games in Poland real? “We have no financial barriers”

Looking at the chronology, the idea of ​​organizing the summer Olympic Games in Poland was already announced in 2023. It was then announced that the Polish side would make efforts to host the event in 2036. These words were spoken by, among others, the then Minister of Sport and Tourism Kamil Bortniczuk and accompanying him President Andrzej Duda.

Sławomir Nitras on the possibilities of organizing the Olympic Games in Poland

The next approach is a new government, the year 2024 and the solution proposed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the current Minister of Sports, Sławomir Nitras. Poland would like to organize the Olympics in 2040.

Minister Nitras met with journalists during Friday’s event, confirming Poland’s willingness to organize the summer Olympic Games.

– We need to build a national sports development strategy. This strategy is called Warsaw 2040, but in fact it is not a strategy for making the Olympics, it is a strategy for changing Polish sport to make the Olympics possible in Poland. We have no financial barriers, we have organizational, structural, certain infrastructural and social barriers that we must overcome to move forward (…) We spend almost 1%. for sports from public money. This is really big money. You can therefore ask the question not whether we can afford the Olympics, but why we have not been able to afford the Olympics so far. We have really good budgets, but we spend the money ineffectively and this is the task before us. In terms of public money spent on sports, we do not lag behind wealthy European countries, admitted Minister Nitras at the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.

During the meeting, the head of the sports ministry was accompanied by, among others, former NBA basketball player Marcin Gortat, tennis player Magda Linette, two-time Olympic vice-champion in mountain biking Maja Włoszczowska and four-time gold medalist in race walking Robert Korzeniowski. It is clear that the sports community would like to hold the Olympic Games 2040 in Poland.

Ten medals of the Polish national team at the Olympic Games in Paris

Poland finished the Olympic Games with ten medals in the French capital. Klaudia Zwolińska, a whitewater kayaker, was the first to win the Olympic vice-championship. The Polish epee players then added the bronze medal, gaining success in the team by winning the match for 3rd place against the Chinese after a great fight.

Men responded to the ladies’ successes. The bronze medal was won by the Polish double team: Dominik Czaja, Fabian Barański, Mirosław Ziętarski and Mateusz Biskup. On Friday, August 2, Iga Świątek added the bronze medal. She was the first in the history of the Polish Olympic movement to win an Olympic medal in tennis.

The next two medals are successes in climbing against time, two by Aleksandra – Mirosław with gold and Kałucka with bronze. Natalia Kaczmarek also won a bronze medal on Friday (i.e. August 9), after a great run in the 400-meter final. It was also the first, long-awaited album for Poland, looking at the athletics competition.

The Polish national volleyball team added its eighth medal, Olympic silver, on Saturday. Poles lost to France in the final 0:3. The penultimate medal is the final achieved by boxer Julia Szeremeta, who ultimately won silver in the 57 kg category. And this one on the last day of the Olympic Games 2024, in track cycling, by Daria Pikulik.