Full Coverage: L.A. 2024 Olympic bid
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The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that Los Angeles will proceed to the second stage of bidding for the 2024 Summer Games.
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There doesn’t figure to be much suspense this week when Olympic leaders meet to review the bids that Los Angeles and three other cities are submitting for the 2024 Summer Games.
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LA 2024 has added Jim Ford, a former investment management firm executive, to its Olympic bid committee as senior adviser.
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LA 2024 has brought aboard a four-time Olympian who is also — more significantly — an International Olympic Committee member.
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For the last few years, an event called LA Hacks has attracted thousands of college students who -- over the course of 35 largely sleepless hours -- collaborate on new computer hardware and software to solve various technical and social problems.
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International relations have been a priority for LA 2024 over the past few months, with representatives of Los Angeles’ Olympic bid committee traveling to visit sports officials around the world.
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Olympic regulations limit how and how much LA 2024 leaders can pitch their Summer Games bid at the SportAccord convention in Switzerland this week.
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There are many small battles in the long, hard process of bidding to host the Olympics.
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Among the four cities vying to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, Budapest has been seen as the dark horse and the slowest to get up and running.
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The LA 2024 bid committee has launched a series of town hall meetings with Olympic and Paralympic athletes nationwide.
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Paris and Rome -- the cities considered Los Angeles’ toughest competitors for the 2024 Summer Olympics -- have made headlines for very different reasons.
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The private committee bidding to bring the Summer Games back to Los Angeles will have five representatives in Madrid this week to attend an International Olympic Committee workshop.
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The leader of the California Senate has introduced a bill that would provide up to $250 million in financial guarantees as part of Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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With an array of stadiums and arenas already in place across Los Angeles, officials bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics have turned their focus to temporary facilities that might be needed.
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Carl Lewis, Greg Louganis and Apolo Ohno highlight a long list of Olympians who have lent their names to the campaign to bring the 2024 Summer Games to Los Angeles.
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The private committee bidding to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles will continue its social media campaign on Friday with an online Q&A featuring Chairman Casey Wasserman and former Olympic swimmer Janet Evans.
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Super Tuesday’s voting results added fuel to a question that has circulated around the Olympic movement in recent weeks.
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These are busy times for LA 2024 as the private bid committee works to finish its first “deliverable,” about 60 pages of plans that must be submitted to the International Olympic Committee by next month.
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Eduardo Paes will take the stage as the most important mayor in the world for 17 days next year when the Summer Olympics start in August in his city of Rio de Janeiro.
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LA 2024 officials have partnered with Snapchat in a move they hope will further their campaign to position Los Angeles as the young, innovative choice for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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The cheering section for the LA 2024 Olympic bid is nearly full, according to a recent telephone poll.
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This week brought more clarity to the competition among four cities wanting to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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LA 2024 officials have submitted the first installment of their bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, insisting they can stage a cost-efficient Games across almost two dozen locations in the greater metropolitan area.
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The private bid committee that hopes to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles has taken the next step in its branding campaign.
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A cold breeze rose up by late afternoon but the soccer players waited around.
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Anita DeFrantz, a longtime International Olympic Committee member from Los Angeles, has expanded her role in the campaign to bring the 2024 Summer Games to this city for a third time.
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The competition to host the 2024 Summer Olympics is beginning to take shape with a number of developments among the four candidates.
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In a move that could save a billion dollars or more in construction costs, LA 2024 officials have modified their bid for the Summer Olympics by proposing to house athletes on the UCLA campus.
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Los Angeles lawmakers approved an agreement Friday that formally ensures the City Council would have to sign off on the upcoming bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Los Angeles’ fledgling Olympic bid committee has hired three major consultants to assist with its campaign.
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Not a whole lot about Los Angeles’ proposal to host the 2024 Summer Olympics has changed in the three weeks since the city officially entered the race.
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Five months have passed since Boston defeated Los Angeles in a close race to represent the U.S. in bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Questions about the financial assumptions in Los Angeles’ proposal to host the 2024 Olympic Games are starting to add up.
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Talk circulated around the International Olympic Committee all spring and summer, with members returning to the same question: When will the Americans drop Boston’s floundering campaign to host the 2024 Summer Games?
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LA24 has released a video touting the city’s campaign to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Los Angeles officials and the U.S.
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Los Angeles has been chosen as the U.S. candidate to bid for the 2024 Summer Games, capping a tumultuous month in which the city went from Olympic also-ran to serious contender.
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Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Summer Games officially begins Wednesday as Mayor Eric Garcetti and sports executive Casey Wasserman hand-deliver a letter of application to International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Los Angeles’ campaign to host the 2024 Summer Games got an unexpected boost Friday at an international sports conference in Washington.
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A new report from city analysts raises concerns about Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, pointing to missing budgetary details and questioning the feasibility and cost of building a downtown Olympic village for 17,000 athletes.
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I love the Olympics. I moved to Los Angeles just before the last Games were held here, in 1984.
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The selection of Los Angeles as the U.S. candidate to bid for the 2024 Summer Games caps a tumultuous month in which the city went from Olympic also-ran to serious contender.
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As Los Angeles moves closer to bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics, officials said they can host the massive 17-day sporting event for $4.1 billion and offered to guarantee that the city will cover any cost overruns.
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Almost a month after entering the race for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Los Angeles bid committee is quietly assembling a staff to run its campaign over the next two years.
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The Los Angeles City Council expects to vote next week on whether L.A. should continue its quest to host the 2024 Summer Games, setting the stage for a public airing of questions surrounding an Olympic bid that has been largely opaque for the taxpayers who could be asked to underwrite the projected $4.1-billion event.
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With Los Angeles’ hopes of hosting the 2024 Summer Games unexpectedly revived, Mayor Eric Garcetti must soon decide whether he is willing to accept the sort of financial risks that his counterpart in Boston — the U.S.
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A contingent representing Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympics met with International Olympic Committee executives in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.
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The last time Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke with the U.S.
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With Boston officials threatening to drop their bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the door has opened for the U.S.
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The chances of Los Angeles bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics have never seemed better. The U.S.
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Every Angeleno who regularly takes the 5 Freeway past downtown has glimpsed the Piggyback Yard, a sprawling 125-acre stretch of Union Pacific railroad tracks etched into the shoulder of Lincoln Heights, between the Los Angeles River and the L.A.
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Another city has joined Los Angeles in the competition to host the 2024 Summer Games.
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To the editor: Los Angeles hasn’t yet been granted the 2024 Olympics, and already we are worried that planners are not watching their step?
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Los Angeles lost its attempt to host the 2024 summer Olympics.
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A second city has backed out of competition for the 2024 Summer Olympic games -- Hamburg, Germany -- citing the cost, both increasing the odds in favor of Los Angeles and making it all the more important for L.A. leaders to limit the city’s financial exposure.
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Los Angeles City Council members delayed a decision Wednesday on whether the city should pursue the chance to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, saying they needed more time to review extensive plans for the proposed multibillion-dollar event that Mayor Eric Garcetti detailed publicly for the first time this week.
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The final obstacle standing between Los Angeles and a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics is expected to fall by the wayside with a City Council vote Tuesday morning.
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We are often counseled not to repeat past mistakes.
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A senior aide to Mayor Eric Garcetti has left City Hall to work for the committee handling Los Angeles’ renascent campaign to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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The glasses are unusually large and square, with thick, dark rims.
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At least some of the mystery surrounding the race for the 2024 Summer Olympics has been resolved.
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The LA 2024 bid committee has added two people from very different worlds to its board of directors.
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This figures to be a busy week for the bid committee trying to bring the Olympics back to Los Angeles.
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The plan to bring the Olympics back to Los Angeles for a third time has become a little clearer with city officials offering additional details about how they would stage the massive sporting event.
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When Los Angeles City Council members vote on pursuing the 2024 Summer Olympics this week, they will be deferring an issue that will probably return to haunt them: Whether city taxpayers should be made liable for budget overruns on the event, which is expected to cost at least $5.8 billion.
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In another strong indication that Los Angeles will be the official U.S. bid bid for the 2024 Summer Games, the U.S.
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It’s as simple as a hammer thrower’s grunt, as sensible as a swimmer’s kick, as clear as the tear on a gold-medalist gymnast’s cheek.
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Organizers of L.A.’
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With international sport suffering through multiple scandals, and Olympic leaders calling for better governance, the LA 2024 bid committee has added two more attorneys to its staff.
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With Los Angeles Unified School District campuses closed Tuesday because of a reported threat — and the area still reeling from terror attacks in San Bernardino two weeks ago — the committee hoping to bring the Olympic Games back to Southern California has been focused on security issues.
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The private committee bidding to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles believes the arrival of one -- and perhaps two -- NFL teams will bolster its chances.
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The committee bidding to bring the 2024 Olympic Games to Los Angeles said Tuesday it is close to finalizing a working agreement with the City Council.
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After months of public and private discussion, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a “memorandum of understanding” that governs its relationship with the private committee bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
