The city of Los Angeles is now in with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as the nation’s Olympic bid city for 2024, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Los Angeles bid officials and the USOC have agreed to terms in the city’s bid to become a last-minute U.S. option to host the 2024 Games, per the L.A. Times, which quotes an anonymous source close to the situation.
The bid won’t become official until the Los Angeles City Council votes on it on Tuesday, and neither the city nor the USOC has commented on the reported agreement.
The Los Angeles 2024 bid is a latecomer to the bid party, only gaining momentum over the past few months. The USOC originally chose Boston out of a list of U.S. cities that included L.A., but the Boston bid struggled to gain any traction with locals as financial concerns persisted.
L.A. jumped into the ring after the Boston bid officially collapsed, but has been cutting deadlines close on the bid process. Official bids into the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are due on September 15, and the USOC has said it wanted to wrap up details on a Los Angeles bid by the end of August (per NBCSports). With one more day to go in the month, it appears the city will just about meet that deadline, assuming the city council is on board.
Anybody for Hamburg?
I think London 2012 loads the deck toward LA in 2024 over Paris. I would also love to see a summer games in Paris, so we as fans can’t lose with either.
Hamburg actually also has a pretty strong bid and 64% support from the local community. Their Olympic plan has all the venues in a very concentrated area, and they are aiming to have a carbon-neutral Games by outlawing the use of cars downtown and making most venues within walking distance from one another. Plus, the harbor and waterfront in Hamburg are absolutely beautiful, and they plan to build the Olympic Stadium, the athlete’s village and the swimming venues on an island in the Elbe. Hamburg is your dark horse.
The rational side of me thinks it’s Paris’s to lose. Certainly front runners have lost in the past (including Paris for 2012).
The emotional side of me would like to see a summer games back in the U.S., so I hope L.A. gives it its best shot. So much of bidding is about timing and politics, and I am still disappointed Chicago’s bid seemed ill timed because a Chicago Olympics would have been great.
Not so fast with that bag. The other countries are also major players in this game :))
But LA got no water!
It’s in the bag. The Olympics in 2024 will be in LA.
You are wrong.
Paris 2024 For the Win!
Or perhaps Budapest. The only Country/City in the all time top 10 medal rankings without being the host. In adition Hungary is a major sport nation when it comes to Olympics. We are 2nd in the gold medal/capita ranking only behind Finland. 🙂
I would love to see Budapest win.
Paris doesn’t have the $$ to build/host the venue. They will be another Athens post Olympics.
Oh that would be great. We could show the rest of the world about our gang problems, illegals, drugs, crime, political corruption, pollution, ect. Just imagine those traffic jams too! Sorry you missed your event! Should have left five hours early, you know, just in case.