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The U.S. will step back from the race against Paris for the 2024 Games in exchange for securing hosting rights four years later
July 31, 2017 3:49 p.m. ET
Officials in Los Angeles and leaders of the International Olympic Committee have reached a deal to bring the Summer Games to Southern California in 2028.
The deal comes after months of discussions between the two parties and will not be official until a vote by the IOC in September, which is considered a formality at this point. The talks moved forward after L.A. officials and the U.S. Olympic Committee signaled they would step back from the race against Paris for the 2024 Games in exchange for securing hosting rights for 2028.
Officials scheduled a news conference for late afternoon Monday in Los Angeles to announce the agreement. Talks between the parties accelerated in early July, after the full membership of the IOC approved a plan to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously at its upcoming meeting in September.
The IOC usually awards hosting rights to the Olympics seven years ahead of the Games. However, IOC President Thomas Bach didn’t want to lose either Paris or Los Angeles as a potential host city. Both cities and their respective national Olympic committees had indicated they were unlikely to bid again if they lost the current campaign.
The Wall Street Journal reported in May that the IOC was close to a deal to give Paris 2024 and L.A. the 2028 Games.
According to people who have been working on the deal, Los Angeles—in exchange for waiting an additional four years to play host—will receive funding for sports programs. The IOC will also help underwrite the operating costs of the organization currently known LA24, the private group that will serve as the local organizing committee for the Games. In addition, LA24, which will likely be re-named LA28, is expecting to receive more money from the sales of world-wide Olympic sponsorships than it would have had it played host to the Games in 2024.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the agreement said the IOC funding will “kick-start our drive to make L.A. the healthiest city in America, by making youth sports more affordable and accessible than ever before.”
Bach said the deal would create a “win-win-win situation” for Los Angeles, Paris and the IOC.”
Assuming the IOC approves the deal in September, the Summer Games will return to Los Angeles for the first time since 1984, and to the U.S. for the first time since 1996. The U.S. last played host to the Olympics in 2002, when Salt Lake City organized the Winter Olympics.
For the IOC, the deal would lock up two of the world’s leading cities to host coming Summer Games after a tumultuous 2016 in Rio de Janeiro forced the organization to rethink its commitment to holding the event in developing countries. Some major international cities have also shied away from hosting Olympics because they are expensive and thus politically unpopular.
A Summer Games in Paris would mark the 100th anniversary of the last time the City of Lights hosted the event, in 1924. The 2020 Summer Olympics will be in Tokyo.
L.A. has a lot of the buildings in place already so they really don't need to build a new stadium specifically for the Olympics like Rio, China, London, etc. did. They're renovating the L.A. Coliseum, they're building a new stadium in Inglewood for the RAM's and Chargers, there's the Staples Center in downtown L.A., the Honda Center in Anaheim, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the StubHub center in Carson, etc.
If they can bring in private donations again like in 1984, maybe L.A. can turn a profit again.
The only thing they need to work on are the roads and freeways. But they've been working to widen and improve freeways and reduce congestion for years now. They just need to keep at it. A decade is a lot of time to get things done.
A lot of the routes are accessible via the Metro subways, light rails, and trains too.
L.A. has a lot of the buildings in place already so they really don't need to build a new stadium specifically for the Olympics like Rio, China, London, etc. did. They're renovating the L.A. Coliseum, they're building a new stadium in Inglewood for the RAM's and Chargers, there's the Staples Center in downtown L.A., the Honda Center in Anaheim, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the StubHub center in Carson, etc.
If they can bring in private donations again like in 1984, maybe L.A. can turn a profit again.
The only thing they need to work on are the roads and freeways. But they've been working to widen and improve freeways and reduce congestion for years now. They just need to keep at it. A decade is a lot of time to get things done.
A lot of the routes are accessible via the Metro subways, light rails, and trains too.
Have you been to LA lately? majority of the congesting road nowadays are caused by these slow ass unionized CalTran roadwork. I am not talking about months, i am talking about years and year.
You would think 10 years is a lot of time to get things done, but as someone who drive by these congestion everyday, i can tell you that things started around 5 years ago are no where to be done.
Worst of all.... all the time and $ and congestion they have caused show no difference in road condition, they are still as fucked as ever. 10 freeway is in worse shape than before. So what the fuck are they fixing??
How can you even call it a freeway when a big chunk of pavement is moving when you run over it... or a freaking hole in the middle of the road
Sorry... this is very personal to me
Last edited by oonowindoo; 08-09-2017 at 04:08 PM.
I-45 SW of Houston and I-35 at SH71 have been under construction for the majority of my life. Every time something is finished, something new needs to be changed. It doesn't help you, but you're not alone.
Every major road and freeway in LA (405,10,60, 710, 5, 91, 15,110) have been and still under construction for... i cant even remember for how many years....
I think i just listed every freeway there is.
I just hope this Olympic thing will help to speed things up....
Ooof, weightlifting, boxing and modern pentathlon possibly removed for 2028 games.
The sport of weightlifting is not currently on the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) list of inclusion for the 2028 Olympic Games, set in Los Angeles, CA. The news was announced on Dec. 9, 2021, on the Olympics’ website. Boxing and modern pentathlon are also, as of now, not included in LA2028. However, the post also states that there’s “a pathway for boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon to be potentially included in the LA28 Initial Sports Programme at the IOC Session in 2023.”
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