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Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of a deal in which Paris will hold the 2024 Games, according to sources familiar with negotiations between the city and the Inter…
Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of a deal in which Paris will hold the 2024 Games, according to sources familiar with negotiations between the city and the International Olympic Committee.
An agreement between Los Angeles and the IOC comes less than a month after the IOC voted unanimously to award two Games in one year for the first time since 1921.
The agreement will be formally announced by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, city council president Herb Wesson, Los Angeles 2024 and U. S. Olympic Committee officials at 5 p.m. today at StubHub Center.
The deal will be approved by the IOC membership Sept. 13 in Lima, Peru.
Under the agreement, Paris will host the 2024 Games.
The IOC’s unanimous vote in Lausanne on July 11 that guaranteed Los Angeles and Paris the opportunity to host a third Olympic Games was characterized by IOC president Thomas Bach and Garcetti as a “golden opportunity” for both cities and an Olympic movement whose future has been jeopardized by a series of corruption, financial and doping scandals that have scared off potential bid cities, younger viewers and sponsors.
The 2028 Games will follow the same general plans as Los Angeles 2024 officials pitched the IOC for the 2024 Games: a privately funded Games relying on existing facilities and revolving around four sports parks — downtown, Long Beach, South Bay, the Valley — with UCLA hosting the Olympic Village.
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