Paris will host the Olympic Games for the third time this summer. The choice was logical - and in the end there was no alternative.
After a series of often criticized Games associated with corruption and huge costs, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was finding it increasingly difficult to find candidates to host its prestigious event. Five cities initially made serious bids to host the 2024 Summer Games: Paris, Los Angeles, Budapest, Hamburg and Rome.
In Hamburg, the population rejected the bid in a referendum in November 2015. In Rome, the newly elected mayor of the Five Star Movement stopped the project in September 2016. In Budapest, more than 265,000 residents demanded a referendum, whereupon the organizers withdrew their bid in February 2017. This left Paris and Los Angeles, whereupon the IOC decided to award the 2024 and 2028 Games together for the first time.
Los Angeles was persuaded to bid for 2028 instead, whereupon both bids were elected unopposed at the IOC Session in Lima on September 13, 2017. Both Paris (after 1900 and 1924) and Los Angeles (1932 and 1984) will be the third city after London (1908, 1948, 2012) to host the Summer Olympics for the third time.
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