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2024 Summer Paralympics


The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event. Bidding for the games started in 2015, with five candidate cities in contention, but Hamburg, Budapest and Rome subsequently withdrew. The two remaining candidate sites are Los Angeles, and Paris. The host of the Summer Olympic Games is scheduled to be announced at the 130th International Olympic Committee Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017.

The candidature process was announced at the same time as the names of the five candidates cities on 16 September 2015.

Five candidate cities were announced by the IOC on 16 September 2015, Budapest, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome. Hamburg withdrew its bid per a referendum held on 29 November 2015, while, citing fiscal difficulties, Rome withdrew on 21 September 2016.

On 22 February 2017, it was reported that Budapest withdrew its bid, after a petition against the bid collected more signatures than necessary for a referendum..On February 24, 2017, claiming that Budapest’s doomed bid for the 2024 Summer Games was “overtaken by local politics,” the International Olympic Committee has reiterated it will consider changes in the way host cities are selected.


Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics, and the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. If Los Angeles won the bid, it would not only be the second city to host the Summer Olympics three times after London, but it would also be exactly 40 years after Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1984. On 26 April 2014, the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games announced its bid proposal for the 2024 Olympics. On 28 July 2015, the USOC contacted Los Angeles about the possibility of stepping in as a replacement bidder for the 2024 Summer Games after Boston dropped its bid. On 1 September 2015, the LA City Council voted 15–0 to support a bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee finalized its selection moments after the LA City Council's vote. On 13 January 2016, Los Angeles 2024 committee officials said they were "thrilled to welcome" the construction of a $2-billion-plus, state-of-the-art football stadium in Inglewood, California and with the arrival of one—and perhaps twoNFL teams would bolster its chances. On 25 January 2016, the Los Angeles 2024 committee announced that it planned to place its Olympic Village on the UCLA campus. LA 2024 also announced that media members and some Olympic officials would be housed in a 15-acre residential complex planned to be built by USC.


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