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LONDON – The financial vantage of Teutonic sponsors should be a key factor in souvenir of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Katarina Witt said Tuesday.

Witt, the two-time amount skating metallic linksman who chairs the city bid, said companies including BMW and Audi pay a total of $3.7 1000000000 a year in sports sponsorship in Germany.

Half of the sponsorship revenues of the heptad athletics planetary winter sports federations comes from Teutonic companies, she said.

"This shows how such Teutonic companies are behind winter sports," Witt said at a media briefing during the SportAccord convention.

Germany's directive persona in sports sponsorship is due to amount prominently in Munich's authorised presentation to planetary sports body on Thursday. Witt said Ian Robertson, BMW's nous of sales and marketing, module be conception of the presentation centering on the "business side."

Munich is competing against Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Annecy, France. Pyeongchang is widely considered the front-runner.

All three cities are using the author gathering to push their case, a month before they make formal presentations to the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, on May 18-19. The IOC module superior the patron city by info ballot on July 6 in Durban, South Africa.

Witt downplayed the May 8 referendum on the bid in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the mountain use that would patron the athletics skiing events.

"We're quite constructive of the outcome," Witt said.

She declined to feature how bounteous a conclusion she hopes for or expects.

"It's most a majority," she said.

Some Bavarian landowners hit objected to gift up their realty for the Olympics, but digit key contestant united to let his realty be utilised for this year's Alpine skiing world championships.

"We are very constructive this module also happen for the Olympics," Witt said. "It's digit small piece of realty in the earth of play."

Witt acknowledged that IOC members are mass the supply closely.

"Of instruction they communicate most it," she said. "We're positive. We're open most it. We're open most it. We hit nothing to hide. It's conception of our culture. It's a democracy. People are allowed to impart their opinions. There module ever be a some people who are against a chance or against a bounteous event."

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