There are other sites that will make a bid and Los Angeles is no guarantee to land the Olympics.
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– The ability to run a cost-effective event – at least as Olympics go – which is something the global Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) has recently called for.
“Hopefully to finalize conditions that advantage both Los Angeles’ town and also the Olympic Activity within the USA to ensure that we are able to publish a global-course bet towards the IOC“.
The Times points to a recent poll that confirmed that more than 80 percent of people in the Los Angeles area want the city to bid for the games.
Los Angeles was seen as the clear frontrunner after Boston withdrew its own bid last month, following months of contentious political debates.
The news comes two weeks after the USOC dropped a Boston bid that was short on support. In the wake of Boston’s embarrassing collapse and the IOC’s dearth of viable choices for the 2022 Winter Games (Beijing beat out Almaty, Kazakhstan), there was private and then public pressure on the USOC to submit someone, anyone for 2024 despite Paris being considered the front-runner followed by several other European cities.
An abundance of existing venues could help limit cost overruns and garner support for Los Angeles.
“However, no benefit is so great that it is worth handing over the financial future of our City and our citizens were rightly hesitant to be supportive as a result”, said Walsh in the statement.
But Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut has already indicated that he is waiting for Tory to give the thumbs up or down, something the Toronto mayor has said he won’t do until after the Parapan Games close, which happened yesterday.
Pan Am afterglow aside, Toronto should take a pass on the Olympic Games.
In LA, an opposition movement apparently began tweeting under the Twitter account, @No_LAOlympics on July 27, the day the Boston bid collapsed.
Not only does the public support the Games coming to Los Angeles the local stakeholders do too. Oh yes, Montreal’s mayor said something similar just before his city incurred $1.5 billion in debt for staging the 1976 Summer Games.
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An Olympic bid from the city would utilize the improved infrastructure, new venues created for the Pan Ams and the experience gained from hosting a major global event.
