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The talk is that they are likely to simultaneously award 2024 to Paris and 2028 to LA since both cities have compelling bids.
I think the IOC has realized that the cost of the Olympics is a huge issue for most cities these days, and cities are not lining up to bid like they used to.
I'm reactivating this thread as there is meaningful update. Paris is the frontrunner for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which is quite fitting as Paris laid the groundwork for this one a very long time ago as it holds sentimental value to the city, as it marks the 100 year anniversary since the 1924 Summer Olympics, the last time Paris hosted one.
The International Olympics Committee has taken unprecedented measures in this bidding process this time. The two finalists are Paris and Los Angeles and for the first time in history, the IOC will award both cities a Summer Olympics Games. Paris (likely) gets 2024, that's the most plausible outcome, whereas Los Angeles seems poised to get the 2028 Summer Olympics.
This works out for both cities, as the leaders in Paris expressed only interest in the 2024 Games and would not accept 2028. Whereas their counterparts in Los Angeles are open to either 2024 OR 2028. This is unprecedented as it awards two host cities all at once and this gives Los Angeles 14 years to prepare to host the Olympics, every other bid city has only been given 7 years (or less) to make preparations from the date it was announced that they won the bid to the day they started the opening games celebration.
The anticipated outcome leans currently towards Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028, representing a win-win for both cities. It gives Los Angeles 14 years to make the infrastructural upgrades it needs, rather than just 7 years and it gives Paris the sentimental bid that it was aiming for. This will likely be finalized in September when both the 2024 and 2028 bids are announced.
Boston, L.A and Seattle would probably have the best shot of wining it. Atlanta might not since it had it not that long ago.
Seattle is both unprepared and unwilling, lacking many of the needed facilities. But we have useful advantages if we ever try it.
For starters, how about parking several cruise ships within walking distance of major stadiums? Rather than Downtown's 15,500 hotel rooms (counting current construction) that could easily add many thousands of rooms.
The Seattle Center, home to our most recent world's fair and the Space Needle, would make an ideal "village" for vistors including at least one actual sporting events location in Key Arena, which this week has a winning proposal to attempt a renovation for pro teams.
The University of Washington has a surface parking lot of maybe 14 acres that would make an excellent athlete's village, which could become student housing afterward. It's walkable to their sporting facilities.
Seattle is both unprepared and unwilling, lacking many of the needed facilities. But we have useful advantages if we ever try it.
For starters, how about parking several cruise ships within walking distance of major stadiums? Rather than Downtown's 15,500 hotel rooms (counting current construction) that could easily add many thousands of rooms.
The Seattle Center, home to our most recent world's fair and the Space Needle, would make an ideal "village" for vistors including at least one actual sporting events location in Key Arena, which this week has a winning proposal to attempt a renovation for pro teams.
The University of Washington has a surface parking lot of maybe 14 acres that would make an excellent athlete's village, which could become student housing afterward. It's walkable to their sporting facilities.
Key arena is a mess.I think a sodo arena would need to be built. and I'm not quite sure where the Olympic stadium would be. Clink and Husky Stadium cannot currently fit a track inside of them. I'm sure Safeco could but that configuration would make seating hard.You would almost have to redesign the stadium just for that event.
No, Paris is the heavy odds-on favorite for the 2024 Summer Olympics (and has been since Day 1 of the entire process). Odds-makers give Paris a 75% chance of winning the 2024 bid and it has been speculated that Paris was the leading candidate in the field since the start of the entire process. However, the IOC will be awarding 2024 to one city and 2028 to the other, in an unprecedented move. So Los Angeles is most likely to be getting 2028. That works out for both cities actually because Paris only wants 2024 and Los Angeles is open to either 2024 or 2028. Plus 11 years of time to prepare is longer than what anywhere else has been given and the time will prove invaluable to Los Angeles as it makes its preparations and infrastructural upgrades.
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The IOC has unanimously approved a recommendation to award the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games at the same time.
Paris is favourite for the 2024 Games ahead of Los Angeles, but the loser could get the 2028 Olympics.
The two cities are the only ones left in the race for 2024 after Budapest, Hamburg and Rome withdrew.
IOC president Thomas Bach said the governing body's board had "unanimously approved" the decision.
On Wednesday, LA bid chair Casey Wasserman appeared to concede to Paris when he said, "we have never been only about 2024".
Wasserman said the LA bid requires no public funding and all the facilities are either built or being built anyway.
Los Angeles is trying to host a cost-effective Olympics. Its bid predicates on that, so we'll see. The city optimally hopes that hosting the Olympics wont financially set it back and the IOC likes that part of their sell.
That's a wrap folks. This thread is now obsolete since the poll choices in this thread poll are all but eliminated for 2024 and it appears likely the United States gets 2028 and not 2024.
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The exact specifics will be hashed out and finalized in September by the IOC when their formal announcement is expected. Though much of the logistics have already been decided.
However it appears readily imminent that the Olympics return to the United States, in 2028 that is. France gets 2024. Again, this is a win for both cities as they are both getting what they want out of this. Paris wanted 2024, it will almost assuredly be getting 2024. Los Angeles just wanted one of either 2024 or 2028, it will be getting 2028 and this gives the city a pretty large timeframe to make its preparations and construct the necessary infrastructure (i.e. transit expansions, so on).
The exact specifics will be hashed out and finalized in September by the IOC when their formal announcement is expected. Though much of the logistics have already been decided.
However it appears readily imminent that the Olympics return to the United States, in 2028 that is. France gets 2024. Again, this is a win for both cities as they are both getting what they want out of this. Paris wanted 2024, it will almost assuredly be getting 2024. Los Angeles just wanted one of either 2024 or 2028, it will be getting 2028 and this gives the city a pretty large timeframe to make its preparations and construct the necessary infrastructure (i.e. transit expansions, so on).
This is actually good news for LA, since by 2028 the subway to Westwood (where the athletes village is being proposed at UCLA) will be open. They were going to struggle to hit 2024, but 2028 should be no problem. Plus the new NFL stadium in Inglewood will have been open 7 years, so all of the stadium infrastructure will be well-tested and used by then.
LA doesn't need to build much aside from the transit. 11 years is a great amount of lead-time to host this event.
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