German President Steinmeier to be involved in Olympic bid announcement

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be involved in next week's announcement of the nation's bid city for future Olympic Games.

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Tuesday that Steinmeier will be on stage together with DOSB president Thomas Weikert to announce the results of the September 26 vote by the DOSB assembly in Baden-Baden.

Munich, Berlin and Cologne/Rhine-Ruhr are bidding to be Germany's candidate for the Games in 2036, 2040 or 2044. The year of the bid will also be decided by the DOSB assembly.

Berlin hosted the Games in 1936 and Munich in 1972. Since then, a number of German bids have failed or were stopped by referendums. 

Munich and Cologne/Rhine-Ruhr gained big support in referendums for the latest bid. But a fourth city, Hamburg, dropped out after its effort was stopped by residents. There was no referendum in Berlin where the local parliament voted in favour of the bid.

Referendum results are one aspect in a wide-ranging DOSB evaluation of the three candidates in the run-up to the deciding vote.