International Boxing Association officials with the Budapest 2024 leadership ©Budapest 2024

Budapest 2024 claim to be building good relations with the international sporting community by holding a series of meetings with world governing bodies in the Hungarian capital.

Representatives from International Federations from boxing, fencing, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, shooting, taekwondo and weightlifting have so far visited for meetings with officials in the Hungarian capital. 

They collectively worked to hone their planning and refine the "compact and intimate" Budapest 2024 Games concept. 

The workshops, along with venue visits, seek to allow each Federation to review the Master Plan with technical planners and sport professionals from the Budapest 2024 team. 

Venue planning, competition management and sport legacy sessions are among topics being tackled, along with transport and accommodation arrangements.

An informal consultation room for the workshops has been provided at the Citadella, located close to the Freedom Statue - symbol of Budapest and its Olympic bid. 

"We thank all the International Federations for their input; there have been some extremely insightful sessions and more to come," Attila Mizsér, the Budapest 2024 director of sport and venues, said.

"This collaborative process began over a year ago and without it we wouldn’t have the remarkable Master Plan that we are all very proud of today. 

"The Rio [2016] Observer Programme brought us to the heart of the Games experience recently, and now we have these very important discussions in Budapest, allowing us to walk step-by-step through the venues. 

"All this helps us to keep tightening up our plans, little by little. 

"There have been some great initiatives and opportunities that have come out of these workshops."

International Shooting Sport Federation officials are among those to have met with Budapest 2024 in the Hungarian capital to discuss the proposed venue if they are awarded the Olympics ©Budapest 2024
International Shooting Sport Federation officials are among those to have met with Budapest 2024 in the Hungarian capital to discuss the proposed venue if they are awarded the Olympics ©Budapest 2024

Budapest's venue plan is seen as one of the strengths to their bid for a first Olympic Games in Hungary. 

A total of 26 competition venues are all located within a seven kilometres radius of the city centre.

This comes as they take of Los Angeles and Paris in a race which currently has just three contenders after Rome "suspended" their bid this week due to a lack of Mayoral support.

Budapest are due to host 15 major sporting events over the next 11 months before the International Olympic Committee is due to choose a host at its Session in Lima on September 13.

The first event is the European Table Tennis Championships, due to start on October 18 and conclude on October 23. 

"Each one an important opportunity for us to show how we stand out from the crowd, to show how we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional sport events," said Mizsér.

"Before the vote in Lima next year, we will also stage World Championship or World Cup events in fencing, rhythmic gymnastics, canoe sprint, judo, sailing, modern pentathlon and triathlon and six major Para-sport events. 

"Hungary also hosts the 17th International Swimming Federation World Championships and the European Youth Olympic Festival in the summer of 2017. 

"The excitement is already building - we just can’t wait for the fantastic year of sport ahead."