{"id":12981,"date":"2017-09-13T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/dual-olympic-bids-approved-for-paris-and-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:24:31","slug":"dual-olympic-bids-approved-for-paris-and-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/dual-olympic-bids-approved-for-paris-and-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual Olympic Bids Approved For Paris And Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Paris and Los Angeles have been awarded the honor of hosting the 2024 and 2028 Olympic games, respectively. Pictured above: IOC President Thomas Bach (center), Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (left), and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garrett.<\/p>\n

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It’s official, the 2024 Olympics are coming to Paris \u2013 and four years later they’ll be in Los Angeles in the first “double allocation” of the Olympic contests in modern history.<\/p>\n

The International Olympic Committee announced it had approved the allocations \u2014 the result of a three-way deal \u2014 by vote Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“This historic double allocation is a’win-win-win’ situation for the city of Paris, the city of Los Angeles and the IOC,” said IOC President Thomas Bach<\/a> following the vote to approve the decision. <\/p>\n

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The Associated Press reports that Bach declared the vote unanimous after a “show of hands” count raised no objections.<\/p>\n

The vote, in addition to setting the Olympic schedule for 11 years, breaks the IOC’s tradition of selecting host cities one at a time. Initially agreed to over the summer, the three-way deal followed an exodus of other bidders for the 2024 games, reported Ben Bergen<\/a>, of member station KPCC, in June.<\/p>\n

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“Few governments want to risk the billions in cost overruns that have become synonymous with recent Olympics. That’s why the IOC is considering awarding dual bids,” said Bergen at time.<\/p>\n

And once the IOC was looking at just two bidders, as NPR’s Tom Goldman reported<\/a>, it was down to a matter “of who’d get what.”<\/p>\n

“Paris said it didn’t want to host in 2028. 2024 will be the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Paris summer games. … LA sent signals that it was open to going second, ” Tom told Morning Edition last month. <\/p>\n

Los Angeles, host city to the 1932 and 1984 summer games, conceded the 2024 Olympics to Paris, Tom goes on, and has been promised $180 million by the IOC for doing that.<\/p>\n