Munich 2018 Unveils New Candidate City Logo

Munich was first out of the blocks to launch its logo for their bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, just a day after applications to stage the Games officially closed.

Duncan Mackay of Inside the Games reports the following:
The logo, always an emotive subject as London 2012 discovered two years ago, was chosen following a nationwide vote of 50,000 Germans, which Munich officials claimed demonstrates the support for their bid which is seeking to make history by being the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games.

The winning design, which is based on a mountain range and could be interpreted as being the half-pipe in snowboarding or a ski jump, that was chosen came from leading Munich design agency, Zeichen & Wunder.

It was unveiled in the shadow of the futuristic Olympiapark that staged the 1972 Summer Games, with its sweeping canopies of acrylic glass stabilised by metal ropes and where the winners included Britain's Mary Peters in the pentathlon and America's Frank Shorter in the marathon, and which still takes the breath away even after all these years.