12. April 2003  
Munich/Germany  
Happy Gymnastics

The City of Leipzig is the official German Candidate for the Olympics 2012

Jubilation in Leipzig today

Today in the Hilton Hotel of Munich took place the election of the National Olympic Committee of Germany for the official candidate for the Olympic Games 2012.
The City of Leipzig - worldwide wellknown as a city of sports, of a lot of German Gymnastics Festivals and the former location of the famous 'German High school of Physical Culture' (DHfK) - won against Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
The location of the Olympic sailing events will be Rostock/Warnemuende.
Leipzig has also a big tradition of German gymnastics history.
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