MUMBAI: The BBC will organise a debate that will involve the five countries that are bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Games.          

One of the participants will be Feliciano Mayoral who is the president and CEO of Madrid 2012. The debate will take place on 27 January in Torino. On that day the European Ice Skating Championships will be held in that Italian city. Mayoral said, "This is a wonderful opportunity to check our rivals’ projects and the mood state of the other bids’ leaders." The other cities bidding to host the Olympics in 2012 are New York, Paris, Moscow and London.

Although the BBC has not decided when the debate will air, everything indicates that the English network will do it that same night in prime time. The BBC has not clarified as to whether or not participants will have to answer the same questionnaire. The BBC had accepted some conditions imposed by the candidate cities like the utilisation of simultaneous translation.