Olympics in 2024 & 2028: Paris & Los Angeles get Games as IOC backs dual host announcement

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Paris and Los Angeles are set to stage the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games - provided they can agree which should go first, as both want to host in 2024.

The International Olympic Committee has voted in favour of naming hosts for successive Games on 13 September with just Paris and Los Angeles bidding.

The IOC - which oversees the Olympic movement - wants the cities to reach an agreement on who hosts in 2028 by then.

If there is no agreement, a vote to select just the 2024 host will be held.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/40574879

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. At the nearly 100 year old Colliseum?

Built for the 1932 Games.

[Renew Deal]

2. Why not?

It won't be any less great.

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. I was there in 84 for the Olympics

But it isn't exactly comfy. Benches for one thing. Concessions, access , egress, walkways, lack of handicapped areas, the steep, long climbs... I love the place, but it is not comfortable by any stretch.

[melm00se]

5. The Coliseum

is slated to undergo a significant renovation starting next year.

http://coliseumrenovation.com/overview

[ghostsinthemachine]

13. Thank you

I didn't know. I've been there many times, including the 84 games, Rams, Raiders (when playing the 49ers) games.

[sandensea]

4. Good to see they didn't give to some autocracy, as FIFA has been prone to.

My guess is that Paris will host the 2024 games, considering they hosted them in 1924 (the 'Chariots of Fire' games).

On the other hand Athens was widely expected to host the 1996 games for the same centennial reason - until Mrs. Samaranch's $15,000 Atlanta shopping spree.

[Blue_Tires]

8. It's just as well, since even pushing it back to 2004

Athens wasn't ready for prime time, iirc

[sandensea]

10. You're probably right.

Opa!

[Xolodno]

6. Unlike a lot of other countries...

The Olympic facilities in LA weren't abandoned. Add to that, there are newer facilities such as Staples Center and soon to be new stadium in Inglewood. Good chance that LA is again one of the few Olympics that make money off them.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Yeah, it's clear that the summer games will be rotated around the same

7-8 megacities with the infrastructure already in place to host... No more building 60+ spanking new venues and an athlete dorm from the ground up that will be abandoned a week after closing ceremonies...

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. This is something the US and Canada has done really well

Team USA and Team Canada can keep all the Olympic caliber facilities across North America not just viable but permanently strained, while some of the facilities in Brazil are already abandoned.

[Yavin4]

9. The games in Paris? The views will be amazing.

I think I'm going to try to go. Why not?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. I would love to see the Olympics in Los Angeles

But I would be worried about immigration and security nonsense making it a logistical disaster, that doomed Chicago's bid.

[roamer65]

14. It should be LA 2024 and Paris 2028.

Europe had them for London 2012. Time for North America to have them.