Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics

Bids for the
2024 (2024) Summer Olympics and Paralympics
Overview
Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
XVII Paralympic Games
Details
CityLos Angeles, California, United States
ChairCasey Wasserman
NOCUnited States Olympic Committee (USOC)
Previous Games hosted
1932 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
Bid for 1952, 1956, 1976 and 1980
Decision
Result

The Los Angeles bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Summer Paralympics was an attempt to bring the Summer Olympic Games to the city of Los Angeles, California in 2024. Following withdrawals by other bidding cities during the 2024 Summer Olympics bidding process that led to just two candidate cities (Los Angeles and Paris), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics at the same time, with Los Angeles understood to be preferred for 2028. After extended negotiations, Los Angeles agreed to bid for the 2028 Games if certain conditions were met.[1] On July 31, 2017, the IOC announced Los Angeles as the sole candidate for the 2028 games, with US$1.8 billion of additional funding to support local sports and the Games program.[2]

Los Angeles was chosen by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on August 28, 2015, after the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to back the bid.[3][4] Los Angeles was the second city submitted by the USOC for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Boston was originally chosen to be the American bid but withdrew on July 27, 2015.[5] Los Angeles also originally bid for the USOC's nomination in late 2014, when Boston was chosen over Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco.[6] This was the third United States summer bid since hosting the Centennial Olympic Games (1996) in Atlanta, previously losing in 2012 and 2016 to London and Rio de Janeiro, respectively.

Los Angeles previously hosted the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics, and will become the third city – after London and Paris in 2024 – to host the Summer Games three times. Los Angeles will become the first American city to host the Olympic games since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. It will be the fifth time a US city has hosted the Summer Olympics.

  1. ^ "LA may consider 2028 Olympics if 2024 bid falls through". New York Post. Associated Press. 13 May 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Los Angeles Declares Candidature for Olympic Games 2028 - IOC to Contribute USD 1.8Billion to the Local Organizing Committee". IOC. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "USOC names Los Angeles the official U.S. bidder for the 2024 Summer Olympics". Los Angeles Times. September 1, 2015. Archived from the original on March 31, 2023. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  4. ^ "Angelenos have mixed opinions about 2024 Olympic bid". ABC 7 Los Angeles. September 2, 2015. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
  5. ^ Vaccaro, Adam (July 27, 2015). "Boston's Olympic Bid is Dead". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on July 29, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  6. ^ "Boston will bid to host 2024 Olympic Games: USOC". Yahoo! Sports. Reuters. January 8, 2015. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2015.