Public support will be the deciding factor whether Germany will submit another Olympic bid for the 2024 or 2028 Games, German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) chief Alfons Hoermann said on Thursday.
Hoermann reiterated that the DOSB general assembly will not necessarily give the nod to Hamburg or Berlin on December 6.
"It will depend on the public mood whether we will reach a definite decision," Hoermann told a news conference in Berlin.
Hamburg and Berlin have submitted their concept to the DOSB but German Olympians don't want a repeat of last year's scenario when Munich's planned bid for the 2022 Winter Games was stopped in a referendum.
"We don't want and won't have a scenario like Munich - deciding on a city and then being red-carded," Hoermann said.
Hoermann also said that the decision-making process could take longer than the three months until the December meeting in Dresden.
Bids for 2024 must be submitted to the International Olympic Committee by next year, with the host city elected in 2017.
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