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Paris and LA were the only two cities who bid for the Olympics in 2017. They got the 2024 and 2028 Olympics respectively. I'm not sure any other city in the US

• addicted 2y ago
  I mean look at Paris. The city’s residents emptied out. This is still ok in Europe, especially France, which have a culture of weeks long summer vacations, so it wasn’t as much of a disruption as timing the vacation right. I’m not sure how well it will work for the residents of LA when US residents have no such limitation. OTOH, LA is large and broken up enough enough that it may not be very noticeable for the residents as long as they remain in their residential areas.
  • sofixa 2y ago
    > I mean look at Paris. The city’s residents emptied out Some of them did, but lots remained at least for some parts. The venues, fan zones, streets and cafés/bars/restaurants were full with people dressed in French colours.
• Kon-Peki 2y ago
  People in Brazil were convicted for money laundering related to buying votes for Rio 2016. The US refused to submit a bid for the 2020 games because the IOC was demanding more money. Tokyo, which had the strongest 2016 bid according to the IOC grading process, took 2 runoffs to win the bid for 2020 with some pretty shady voting patterns. So yeah, it’s no surprise that hardly any city wants to bother with the IOC.