2024 Olympic Finalists: 5 Cities Announced, The chase is on for the 2024 Olympics: A five-city claiming pitting four European bids adjoin a backstab host from the United States.
The International Olympic Board appear the official acreage of candidates Wednesday, and there were no surprises as the ahead declared bidders were all on the account — Budapest, Hungary; Hamburg, Germany; Los Angeles; Paris; and Rome.
"We are affable 5 outstanding and awful able applicant cities," IOC President Thomas Bach said.
The calendar appearance three basic cities (Budapest, Paris, and Rome), three antecedent Olympic hosts (Paris, Rome, and Los Angeles) and one first-time applicant (Hamburg).
Los Angeles, which hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, and Paris, which staged the amateur in 1900 and 1924, appearance up as aboriginal front-runners as they seek to accompany London in acceptable three-time hosts.
The borderline for acquiescence of entries asleep at midnight on Tuesday in Switzerland. Two added abeyant candidates — Toronto, and Baku, Azerbaijan — absitively not to bid.
"This is a antagonism about quality, not quantity," Bach said in a appointment call.
The IOC aswell appear the host city-limits arrangement and added abstracts ambience out the two-year bid process, which has been afflicted to annihilate the cut-down phase, and ensure that all candidates go to the final vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.
Bach said a applicant would be cut alone if it violates behest rules or if the IOC determines a city-limits cannot accommodated "minimum requirements" for hosting the games.
The IOC has been bent to present a advantageous amount of bids and world-class acreage for 2024 afterward the afflicted chase for the 2022 Winter Games, which was larboard with alone two candidates afterwards four pulled out for banking or political reasons. Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the IOC vote on July 31.
Bach said all 5 bid cities for 2024 absolutely accepted his Olympic Agenda 2020' ameliorate program, which seeks to abate behest and hosting costs. "Sustainability and bequest are the cornerstones of anniversary candidature," he said.
The IOC will accord $1.7 billion in banknote and casework to the acclimation board of whichever city-limits is called as host. Bach behest aplomb the city-limits will aftermath a surplus on its operating budget, which does not awning abiding basement costs.
The cities have to abide their aboriginal bid files by Feb. 17, 2016.
An IOC appraisal agency will appointment the cities amidst February and June 2017.
A abstruse conference for IOC associates will be captivated in July 2017, two months afore the vote.
Bach said the appraisal action would change from "an assay appearance to a chat style," allowance ensure that bid promises are kept already the amateur are awarded so that "the alignment appearance may be beneath agitated and added reliable."
Los Angeles stepped in as the U.S. applicant afterwards Boston's bid burst in July amidst a abridgement of accessible and political support. The Californian city-limits is behest to accompany the Summer Amateur aback to the U.S. for the aboriginal time aback Atlanta captivated the 1996 Olympics. New York and Chicago bootless in their bids for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, respectively.
Los Angeles, which faced no action for the '32 and '84 Olympics, has absent in seven added contested bid elections.
Paris is acquisitive to host the Olympics absolutely 100 years afterwards it endure captivated the games. The French basic was the admired for the 2012 Amateur but absent out to London.
Rome is gluttonous to yield the amateur aback to the Italian basic for the aboriginal time aback 1960. Rome alone out of the behest for the 2020 Olympics if the government banned to accord banking support.
Hamburg's bid faces a election a part of voters in the arctic anchorage city-limits on Nov. 29, with no authoritativeness that it will win.
"What is important for the IOC is that we wish to forward the athletes alone to cities area they are welcome," Bach said, abacus that the IOC will backpack out its own arcane polling in all the bid cities.
Germany, which endure captivated the Summer Olympics in Munich in 1972, is the arch adversary to host the European soccer championship in 2024, but Bach — a German — said there was no acumen the country couldn't authority both events.
"Nobody has a absolute agnosticism about the authoritative abilities of Germany, and German action in particular," he said.
Budapest, which has bootless in abundant antecedent bids, would accompany the Olympics to Hungary for the aboriginal time.
Hungary is adverse criticism for its boxy attitude on migrants and refugees, while Germany has been accepted for its affable policy.
"This altruistic claiming is traveling above Olympic candidatures," Bach said.
The International Olympic Board appear the official acreage of candidates Wednesday, and there were no surprises as the ahead declared bidders were all on the account — Budapest, Hungary; Hamburg, Germany; Los Angeles; Paris; and Rome.
"We are affable 5 outstanding and awful able applicant cities," IOC President Thomas Bach said.
The calendar appearance three basic cities (Budapest, Paris, and Rome), three antecedent Olympic hosts (Paris, Rome, and Los Angeles) and one first-time applicant (Hamburg).
Los Angeles, which hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, and Paris, which staged the amateur in 1900 and 1924, appearance up as aboriginal front-runners as they seek to accompany London in acceptable three-time hosts.
The borderline for acquiescence of entries asleep at midnight on Tuesday in Switzerland. Two added abeyant candidates — Toronto, and Baku, Azerbaijan — absitively not to bid.
"This is a antagonism about quality, not quantity," Bach said in a appointment call.
The IOC aswell appear the host city-limits arrangement and added abstracts ambience out the two-year bid process, which has been afflicted to annihilate the cut-down phase, and ensure that all candidates go to the final vote in Lima, Peru, in September 2017.
Bach said a applicant would be cut alone if it violates behest rules or if the IOC determines a city-limits cannot accommodated "minimum requirements" for hosting the games.
The IOC has been bent to present a advantageous amount of bids and world-class acreage for 2024 afterward the afflicted chase for the 2022 Winter Games, which was larboard with alone two candidates afterwards four pulled out for banking or political reasons. Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the IOC vote on July 31.
Bach said all 5 bid cities for 2024 absolutely accepted his Olympic Agenda 2020' ameliorate program, which seeks to abate behest and hosting costs. "Sustainability and bequest are the cornerstones of anniversary candidature," he said.
The IOC will accord $1.7 billion in banknote and casework to the acclimation board of whichever city-limits is called as host. Bach behest aplomb the city-limits will aftermath a surplus on its operating budget, which does not awning abiding basement costs.
The cities have to abide their aboriginal bid files by Feb. 17, 2016.
An IOC appraisal agency will appointment the cities amidst February and June 2017.
A abstruse conference for IOC associates will be captivated in July 2017, two months afore the vote.
Bach said the appraisal action would change from "an assay appearance to a chat style," allowance ensure that bid promises are kept already the amateur are awarded so that "the alignment appearance may be beneath agitated and added reliable."
Los Angeles stepped in as the U.S. applicant afterwards Boston's bid burst in July amidst a abridgement of accessible and political support. The Californian city-limits is behest to accompany the Summer Amateur aback to the U.S. for the aboriginal time aback Atlanta captivated the 1996 Olympics. New York and Chicago bootless in their bids for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, respectively.
Los Angeles, which faced no action for the '32 and '84 Olympics, has absent in seven added contested bid elections.
Paris is acquisitive to host the Olympics absolutely 100 years afterwards it endure captivated the games. The French basic was the admired for the 2012 Amateur but absent out to London.
Rome is gluttonous to yield the amateur aback to the Italian basic for the aboriginal time aback 1960. Rome alone out of the behest for the 2020 Olympics if the government banned to accord banking support.
Hamburg's bid faces a election a part of voters in the arctic anchorage city-limits on Nov. 29, with no authoritativeness that it will win.
"What is important for the IOC is that we wish to forward the athletes alone to cities area they are welcome," Bach said, abacus that the IOC will backpack out its own arcane polling in all the bid cities.
Germany, which endure captivated the Summer Olympics in Munich in 1972, is the arch adversary to host the European soccer championship in 2024, but Bach — a German — said there was no acumen the country couldn't authority both events.
"Nobody has a absolute agnosticism about the authoritative abilities of Germany, and German action in particular," he said.
Budapest, which has bootless in abundant antecedent bids, would accompany the Olympics to Hungary for the aboriginal time.
Hungary is adverse criticism for its boxy attitude on migrants and refugees, while Germany has been accepted for its affable policy.
"This altruistic claiming is traveling above Olympic candidatures," Bach said.
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