MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games will help boost Spain's flagging economy if successful, the organising committee said after being named as one of the three cities left in the race to host the world's biggest sporting spectacle.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped Doha and Azerbaijan capital Baku at a meeting in Quebec City on Wednesday, leaving Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid to fight it out for the hosting rights.
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