Hamburg residents rejected the German port city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics in a public referendum on Sunday.

Opponents to the games won with 51.6 percent of the vote, with 48.4 percent in favor.

"That's a decision that we didn't want, but it's clear," said Hamburg mayor Olaf Scholz.

Defeat came despite 65.6 percent of residents in the nearby city of Kiel voting in favor of the games. Sailing events had been planned for Kiel.

More than 40 percent of those eligible to vote in the referendum did so through a postal ballot before Sunday's vote.

The result leaves Paris, Rome, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary as the sole bidders for the 2024 Games. The IOC will select the host city in September 2017.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0c26f...bid-referendum

Paris or LA please.

Hamburg saying no, Budapest will follow

Why did they say no? Are they worried about a terrorist attack?

There hasn't been a US games in so long, rooting for LA

eh it should be L.A tbh

I'm wondering this as well.

Giving this to Paris would be a good f**k you to Daech. I'm rooting for them #Pray4Paris
L.A. has no chance.


+ they only lost by 4 points against London for 2012

Yes that seems to be part of the reason

There is also the issue of the cost to host the games; it can be extremely expensive to to host and that's also brought up in the full article

Cost is becoming a big deterrent that is keeping cities from hosting, this article is one of many about that if you want to read about that.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...t-city-anymore

Hosting would cost them 11+ Billion Euros.

This is why they should give it the LA. The US usually always makes a major profit with these games. Plus LA has the infrastructure to host these games.

I hope the rotten, corrupt IOC has trouble finding a taker to the bitter end.

Speaking for the U.S., Los Angeles is the only pick that has or will ever have (for the forseeable future) anything resembling the already existing infrastructure to make the summer games work and not put us too much further into debt.

The only justifiable winter choice would be Salt Lake City again or nothing.

It'd be too expensive and I am pretty sure Hamburg is already in debt.

I want Budapest to win, rooting for that underdog

Budapest please.

I'm not here for any of the other 3.

No

Here for a win on homeground and especially in my state

Bring on the Mary Lou Rettons and Kerri Strugs

Come on LA 2nd city to host 3 times would be so cool

LA released their promo vid



Kobe Bryant and Will Ferrell

Money. Hosting the Olympics has gotten really expensive. Russia spent $50 billion on hosting their Olympics. This also why so few cities showed interest in the 2022 games too.