News: LA Becomes US Olympics 2024 Bid

LuLuDrops

UPDATE: It passed all hurdles. Here we go!

LA competitors so far are Paris, Hamburg, Budapest and Rome.

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A committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday to support an effort to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles, ahead of a deadline next month for U.S. Olympic organizers to decide on an American city to bid for the games.

The U.S. Olympic Committee has turned to Los Angeles after dropping Boston in July, after that city’s mayor said he would not expose taxpayers in the Massachusetts capital to assuming possible cost overruns.

The full Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on Tuesday on whether to pursue the Olympics after a council committee unanimously recommended moving forward on Friday.

The U.S. Olympic Committee must designate a proposed American host city on Sept. 15, entering an international competition for the 2024 Summer Games.

Los Angeles represents a possibly thrifty choice as a host city, in large part because officials say most prospective venues and locations for the Games already exist, including Memorial Coliseum, which will be 101 years old in 2024.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has thrown his support behind bringing the Olympics to Los Angeles in 2024, but some council members expressed concern the city – which hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Games – would be on the hook for costs that exceed revenues.

A budget released this week by LA24, an Olympics organizing group chaired by sports executive Casey Wasserman, envisions more than $5.8 billion in costs to host the Games.

The organizers said in a “bid book” Los Angeles could reach the finish line with a surplus of at least $160 million, even though cities have often lost money hosting the Games.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/los-...-council-vote/

wesleywalrus

will they have enough water to fill olympic sized pools?

Reza

noooooo! we don't have enough money to host it here. its a mess as It is.

Caesar

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will they have enough water to fill olympic sized pools?

LuLuDrops

Associated Press just reported that it passed. Up to US Olympic Committee now to submit the proposal to the IOC.

Prometheus.

Even though I want the Olympics to be super close to me and LA is probably the only city big enough to be considered on the West Coast, I just don't think it will happen. We are in a drought and it would be really ****ed up for them to use the water we need to drink, clean, shower, brush and flush our toilets with.

Unless our Winter's for the next 9 years turn out to be incredibly fruitful...

jpow

Nait Phoenix

I can't at y'all saying we'll still be in a drought by 2024! The "optimism"…

LuLuDrops

US Olympic Committee has confirmed LA will be Boston's replacement bid!

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