The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission will visit Los Angeles from April 23rd-25th for their on-site evaluation of the city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
This visit is a part of Stage 3 of the IOC’s 3 stage review of candidate cities. As part of Stage 3, candidate cities will submit the Candidature File Part 3, which is the final file submission of their full project dossier.
The IOC Evaluation Commission, after the visit, will publish their full, public report on each of the 3 finalists, which will highlight opportunities and challenges of each city, and which will be presented to all IOC members.
Before Stage 3, the IOC Evaluation Commission will have already reviewed governance structures, legal elements, and political, private and public support for each project. Cities by this point will have had their funding reviewed, and have received a “behind the scenes” look at the running of the Olympic Games.
The remaining bidders for the 2024 Olympics are Paris, Los Angeles, and Budapest, though the Hungarian population has wavered lately in their support of the bid. Rome was also a finalist, but eventually withdrew their bid.
Outdoor pools no longer allowed for global championships !!
I hope & expect it will be LA 2024.
The IOC desperately needs to reign it in and be disciplined with their brand now. There are only so many cities well suited for this event — and there are a few established ones in Beijing, Tokyo, London, Sydney, Barcelona — that fill in. LA is one that makes the most sense for a US games given weather and infrastructure.
The IOC needs to keep with a smaller net of host cities to rotate the games. I hope Rio ended the IOC’s crude hit-and-run money grab appetites. It’s depressing to see the hangover impacts this fiscal disaster had for Brazilians and Rio citizens.
I agree on the idea of a rotation of select cities. This would clear up some of the corruption issues, reduce negative economic impacts on the hosts, and maintain a high standard for facilities.
I think the some of the cities mentioned would be great in a rotation across continents, but even that means that a city in the Americas would only host every 20 years. What would happen to venues and infrastructure between Games? As examples, the pools in Sydney, Beijing, and London have been retrofitted for smaller seating areas or to create a water park. The huge stadium in Sydney has been downsized by 20,000, and London’s stadium only exists as the lower seating bowl of 30,000 and… Read more »
I am certainly am expecting it to be LA. It still potentially could be; but there are two big obstacles. 1. A strong rival in Paris which has been and remains the oddsmakers favorite. 2. An inauspicious political climate at the moment (I don’t think I need to go into detail on this).
Meant to type that I am NOT “expecting” it to be LA.