As the IOC narrows down its three finalists for the 2020 Olympics to a winner this summer, countries around the world are ramping up their internal selection processes to decide which foot would be their best for a run at the 2024 Olympics.
Scott Blackmun told the Associated Press that the committee is considering 10 cities for a bid by the USOC that at this point seems inevitable for the Americans. This list is whittled down from a wide-reaching invitation to 35 different cities that the USOC sent out earlier this year to gauge interest.
Those specifically named were: Los Angeles, who hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games and lost out to Chicago for the American bid to 2016; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the most intriguing joint bid between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico.
The twinned, cross-border cities would be the first to co-host an Olympic Games. The combined population of their metropolitan areas approaches 5 million people: a much more formidable figure combined to the most recent hosts of Beijing, London, and Rio: the 2016 hosts. Though the logistics of competitors and spectators travelling between countries would be almost mindboggling, the busiest land border crossing in the world is the one on U.S. Interstate 5 and Mexico Federal Highway 1 between the two cities. There, more than 18,400 commercial and passenger vehicles cross the border every day.
NBC reports that Tulsa, Dallas, San Francisco, and Boston are “likely under strong consideration,” though only Philadelphia and Los Angeles have chosen to make their bids public so far. The IOC bidding process won’t begin until 2017, so there’s no rush on deciding the American bid, where they’re expected to go up against major global cities like Paris, Berlin, and Rome.
Chicago should have run again. They lost because it was not yet USA’s turn, and they were against Rio, South america had never hosted the olympics and Brazil economy is emerging.
Out of other US cities, Chicago has the most support from the residents. New York City would never gain any considerable support from its residents. Philadelphia is too insignificant and does not have the support from multinational corporations like Atlanta did.
San Diego-Tijuana is a joke I think. What would they do with the international spectators who bought multievents (or multi-matches) tickets for both cities, allowed to enter Mexico but cannot get US visa?
Detroit and London,Ontario makes much more sensible joint bid.
How much say does the federal US government get in the bids? I can’t see congress being happy about an Olympics on the US/Mexican border, although that will be more than 10 years from now…
There are more murders in Tijuana & Philadelphia than the whole of Western Europe.
Both are run by lunatics.
Unless they open the US-Mexico border, the San Diego-Tijuana bid will be shot down by international voting. It won’t work.