The International Olympic Committee will make their decision on the 2024 games in 2017 |
Five cities were officially named as candidates to host the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, with Los Angeles aiming to land their third Games and Hamburg, Paris, Rome and Budapest battling to bring the multi-sport extravaganza back to Europe.
The International
Olympic Committee (IOC), which will elect the winning bid at its session in
Peru in 2017, announced the final list of bidders after the deadline for
submissions ended.
After a
disappointing campaign for the 2022 Winter Games, where just two candidates
stayed in the race after four others pulled out due to financial concerns or a
lack of public support, the IOC is keen to restore the image of the Olympics as
a lucrative prospect.
In a bidding race predicted to be
the most hotly contested for at least a decade, Los Angeles, the United States'
second choice after Boston pulled out amid fears over cost overruns, is hoping
to stage the Games for a third time after 1932 and 1984.
Paris, which had a failed bid for
the 2012 Olympics, is eager to stage its own centennial Games after hosting
them for the second and last time in 1924.
Rome, the 1960 hosts, had briefly campaigned for the 2020 Olympics before the government pulled the plug over budget concerns, while Budapest is seeking to join Russia as the only
Eastern
European countries to land the Summer Games.
Hamburg, which will hold a
referendum in November on whether the city actually wants the Games, is
proposing an inner-city Olympics with venues within walking distance for
athletes after it beat out Berlin in Germany's bid race. The German port has
never hosted the Games before.
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