The Azerbaijani authorities will decide before fall about nominating Baku for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minister, Azad Rahimov, said.
"We have time until September, to analyze the outcome of the European Games, just to see where we are, what our possibilities are, and after that, I think the decision will be made," TASS cited the minister as saying.
Rahimov also reminded that Azerbaijan submitted a bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and later submitted a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. "The European Games is also one of the steps to show that the country is ready to host big sporting events," the minister said. "We will host the World Chess Olympiad in 2016. We will also host the Formula 1, then we have the UEFA European Under-17 Championship, the Islamic Solidarity Games in 2017 and the 2020 European Football Championship," he stressed.
