US Olympic Committee Moves Closer to New 2024 Bid

“I think L.A. has just kind of been there and understands the tremendous upside”.

“Hollywood, however, is always confident it knows how to throw a big party and remain able to clean up the next day”.

Southern California, however, has an abundance of existing venues, as well as numerous infrastructure improvements already in the works, which could help limit cost overruns. “So we feel really good on the public support issue”.

“In Boston, there was a groundswell of activists, civic-minded people, academics, and elected officials who raised a lot of challenging questions that ultimately derailed the bid”, he said.

“We have near unanimous support of Los Angeles’ Congressional delegation; we have the support of city council; we have the support of the Governor’s office”.

“We are LA citizens who are concerned with the fiscal state of LA city & county”, said the group in a Twitter exchange with the Globe. Because there won’t be as many large projects, chairman Larry Probst feels a Los Angeles bid is more in line with the less-extravagant Olympic model IOC President Thomas Bach outlined in his recently released Agenda 2020 reforms. Japan was at war with China at the time, putting its ability to host in doubt. USOC officials also said the cost concerns that led Boston to back out of the bid were not an issue in Los Angeles.

The L.A. Memorial Coliseum, built for the 1932 Olympics and used again as the host stadium in 1984, could be the site of a third Olympics as Los Angeles is expected to officially become a candidate to host the 2024 Summer Games. Apparently, Los Angeles has no problem about that and are ready to make a run at returning the Olympics to the West Coast for the first time since the 80s. “Organizationally, financially – any way you want to measure it”.

The USOC did not bid for the 2008 Summer Games, won by Beijing.

America includes a bad current report of bidding with Detroit and New York declining poorly in estimates for 2016 Activities and that 2012 respectively. In the wake of Boston’s embarrassing collapse and the IOC’s dearth of viable choices for the 2022 Winter Games (Beijing beat out Almaty, Kazakhstan), there was private and then public pressure on the USOC to submit someone, anyone for 2024 despite Paris being considered the front-runner followed by several other European cities.

The USOC surprised many experts in January by choosing Boston.

Those numbers provide a stark contrast to polls that consistently showed a majority of Boson residents opposed to hosting the Games.

With Boston out, and the USOC apparently still eager to bid, the US nomination appears to be LA’s for the taking.

The host city will be elected September 2017 in Lima, Peru.