Five Cities Confirmed For 2024 Olympic Bid
Five cities will compete to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games, with Los Angeles, Hamburg, Rome, Budapest and Paris entering final bids ahead of the deadline on Tuesday night.
The announcement follows news on Monday that Toronto mayor John Tory confirmed the Canadian city had decided not to bid for the Games, citing other priorities.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) changed the rules in August to ensure every city bidding for the 2024 Olympics progresses to the final vote.
Previously the organisation selected a shortlist of candidates on which the 100 IOC members would vote.
The change came after four cities – Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow and Lviv – withdrew during the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Beijing narrowly beat the only remaining challenger, Almaty of Kazakhstan, in the final vote of IOC delegates.
IOC president Thomas Bach commented: “We are welcoming five outstanding and highly qualified candidate cities. Olympic Agenda 2020 has shaped the candidature process more as an invitation and the cities have responded by engaging with the IOC through dialogue and cooperation. In the new invitation process the IOC learnt that all the candidates are embracing Olympic Agenda 2020 from their respective vision for the future of their city. Sustainability and legacy are the cornerstones of each candidature.”
The IOC will elect the winner at a vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.
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