When Will Olympics Be in Usa Again
I have one talent (two, if playing mediocre is a talent) and information technology's determining which bid city volition eventually be called equally the host for a Summertime or Wintertime Olympics. With the proclamation of the v bid cities for the 2024 Summertime Games made on Midweek, with the ultimate decision being made in Sept. 2017, here are the FTW predictions on which city will win, with the caveat that a lot can change in two years:
Not happening
5. Rome, Italian republic
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This time effectually, there are no obvious candidates to eliminate, even two years in advance. Still, if we had to, we'd say that subsequently the debacle that was the 2022 Winter Olympic behest (when all but two cities bailed out of the process), expect the IOC to go where the Olympics is both wanted and affordable. Rome had to withdraw from 2020 consideration because of financial issues and also plans to take Stadio Olimpico equally the centerpiece of its bid despite the stadium having been last renovated 25 years ago. Information technology probably doesn't fit the neb. Anyway, there's going to be a "European" leader in the pack and Rome isn't going to be it.
Probably not happening
4. Budapest, Hungary
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Though Budapest is beingness given the longest odds by oddsmakers (16/one) the gorgeous urban center — which would become the start Eastern European capital city to host the games since Moscow in 1980 — fits with what the IOC likes to practise with Olympic bids: Go to new places, see new things, bring every country into the Olympic motility. And though going to Hungary isn't the same as going to say, Beijing (beginning Games in China), Sydney (second Olympics below the equator and kickoff in 44 years) or Rio (first Games in South America), it'southward the state that is highest on the all-fourth dimension medal count to never take hosted a Games. However, there is a Nov referendum in Hungary that could shoot down the Games' bid for it fifty-fifty begins. And with three other Euro cities in the mix, Budapest might take to wait a few cycles to get the Olympics it surely will host one solar day. Plus, Budapest has far more important concerns these days than hosting a sporting event.
Certainly could happen
iii. Hamburg, Germany
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The past implications and actions at German games (the last of which was Munich, 1972) might be a marking confronting Hamburg, merely those incidents will exist more than 50 years one-time and 85 years old by the fourth dimension a flame is lit in Hamburg. And in that location's a reasonable chance to retrieve it will, as Hamburg is a rare applicant in that its residents actually seem to want the Olympics. The city is laid out in such a manner that its bid will likely focus on how much of the Games could truly be walkable and the metropolis touts a loftier sports participation rate among residents which has no bearing on the Olympics itself, but is a squeamish stat to put in a bid video.
The co-favorite
2. Paris, France
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The French upper-case letter was considered a shoo-in to win the 2012 Games before London swooped in to win the vote (showing that dual European bids don't necessarily divide the vote at all). With the use of Parisian landmarks in various events, Paris volition accept beauty on its side, every bit well every bit the round number of "100," every bit in "100 years since Paris last hosted a Summer Games," something that volition surely be played up. Of the 4 European cities bidding for the Games, Paris makes the nigh sense and it has been more than close more recently, giving information technology the ultimate trump bill of fare. Still, I think the IOC will be looking elsewhere.
The 2024 Olympic host
one. Los Angeles, United States
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By 2024, it will have been nearly 30 years since the U.South. hosted a Summertime Olympics and 22 years since the Winter Olympics came stateside. Since the Atlanta Games of 1996, Europe and Asia have hosted twice (Athens and London; Beijing and Tokyo, respectively) and the Games have gone south of the equator ii other times (Sydney and Rio de Janeiro). Chicago, which had a fine, if slightly mediocre, bid for the 2016 Games, was also idea to have been "robbed" of an Olympics, but actually didn't accept a shot against beach volleyball at Copacabana.
Los Angeles has hosted twice before, but went unopposed in both those instances. And while the USOC's disaster with Boston certainly didn't help annihilation, that mess volition be long forgotten by the time bids are made and sealed in two years. With plenty of pre-existing venues, including the likely existence of a massive, mod NFL stadium in a few years, LA seems like the sort of painless host city the IOC needs. In that location's also this not-so-fiddling fact: The 2024 Games are the kickoff of three Summer Games in NBC's massive extension as televised rights holder and yous can judge that the Peacock network is expecting an American Olympics in one of those three years (2024, 2028, 2032). Why not become it out of the way early, IOC, in a city that knows its way around hosting the Summer Games?
Source: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/which-city-will-host-2024-summer-olympics-los-angeles-paris-rome-budapest-hamburg
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