- Title: IOC approves awarding both 2024, 2028 Games in September
- Date: 11th July 2017
- Summary: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (JULY 11, 2017) (REUTERS) IOC PRESIDENT THOMAS BACH, LOS ANGELES MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI AND PARIS MAYOR ANNE HIDALGO ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE ALONG WITH PARIS 2024 BID CO-CHAIR, TONY ESTANGUET AND LOS ANGELES 2024 BID CHAIR, CASEY WASSERMAN NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) IOC PRESIDENT, THOMAS BACH, SAYING: "This is a golden opportunity for today but it is of really great, great importance for the future of the Olympic Games because insuring the stability of the Olympic Games for 11 years is really in our world something extraordinary." JOURNALIST AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) IOC PRESIDENT, THOMAS BACH, SAYING: "We think that today this is a great day there for the Olympic Games and there for the Olympic Movement and it's a great day also for these two wonderful cities, these two great Olympic cities and that today we have now created, we've built the foundation on which we're very confident that we can then build the win-win-win situation we're all longing for and then to make it finally happen then in Lima just in a couple of months." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS JOURNALISTS AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOS ANGELES MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI, SAYING: "You know in the past we've looked at the Olympics as when you bid it's a winner take all. There's the old cliche there is no silver medal when you bid but maybe the better metaphor has been in Olympic history we've actually had 37 times which there's been a tie for a gold medal and maybe today is the 38th - a time in which two cities, with two great bids, two places that have worked very hard after their nations have struggled before to bring the Olympic Games home. I now know that I'm sitting up here with two Mayors of two cities that will host, after Tokyo, the next two Olympics. And for each one of us I think that is an exciting day, for myself it certainly is, I'm thrilled we're one step closer to making that happen. I have full confidence we will get there."
- Embargoed: 25th July 2017 20:09
- Keywords: Olympics 2024 and 2028 vote Los Angeles Paris Thomas Bach
- Location: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
- City: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: Olympics,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA0016P9YERJ
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- Story Text:The International Olympic Committee moved close to an agreement on Tuesday (July 11) that will allow Paris and Los Angeles to each host the summer Games between now and 2028 and rule out any other cities from bidding.
The two cities were the only ones left in the race to stage the 2024 Games and an IOC session voted that it would seek a "tri-partite agreement" for one host in 2024 and the other in 2028.
The original plan had been to choose one for 2024 at the next session in Lima on Sept. 13, discard the other and start a whole new bidding process for 2028.
For the agreement to work, either one or both cities would have to be willing to accept the 2028 Games if they were not awarded 2024, the IOC said.
The mayors of both cities said they would work towards reaching an agreement while IOC president Thomas Bach said he believed a deal could be struck by August.
Bach said the decision would "ensure the stability of the Olympic Games for 11 years (which) is really in our world something extraordinary." He described it as a "win-win-win" situation.
Should there be no three-way agreement, the vote at the Lima session will be a straightforward selection of only the 2024 host city.
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, whose city hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984, said the decision was a welcome departure from what he described as the traditional "winner-takes-all" process.
His Paris counterpart Anne Hidalgo said she was committed to reaching an agreement so Paris can host a Games for the first time in 100 years.
Paris, which hosted the 1900 and 1924 Games, failed with bids to host the 1992, 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Before the vote on Tuesday both Paris and Los Angeles presented their bids to the 83 IOC members present, with the French capital receiving a major boost from the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, who addressed the session. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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