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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Budapest to withdraw bid to host 2024 Summer Olympics
By PABLO GORONDI BUDAPEST, Hungary©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Patrick Hattman
Los Angeles will be the host city for the 2024 Games. They will be able to use many existing facilities and keep costs in check.
wanderlust
Time for the IOC to wake up and review how they hold the games. Fewer countries are interested in bidding, with their people fearing the continual corruption, debts paid by taxpayers, and the legacy of crumbling, unused and wasteful infrastructure, already seen in Brazil and Athens.
smithinjapan
Wow... a whopping two cities bidding for the Games after Tokyo -- Almost like the choice between China and... Kazakhstan? for the 2022 Winter Games. I think 2024 will be the last Games as we know them, if they even happen then. The corruption, cost, and petty politics involved have ensured that any logical governments vote in people against the Games, and vote out those for them. The IOC is now ASKING countries to take on the Games, and floating the idea of co-hosts, etc. Time for the Games to change.