Paris and LA were awarded the Olympics as a single decision without the normal bidding process - because there weren't any other legitimate and serious bids bei

Paris and LA were awarded the Olympics as a single decision without the normal bidding process - because there weren't any other legitimate and serious bids being put forward. The 2026 World Cup was awarded to "North America" because the only other bid was from Morocco and FIFA didn't think they had any hope of being able to pull it off. They estimated that Morocco would need to devote 15-25% of their entire GDP just to build the facilities. The North American bid just had a list of cities and stadiums that might host some games and told FIFA to take it or leave it. They only decided on which stadiums they are going to use last month! And the list is missing a bunch of big cities that said "no thanks, we'll pass"!