IOC announces host cities 2024 and 2028

As expected, the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in 2024 to Paris and the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad in 2028 to Los Angeles.

Read more about the Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 masterplan and venues.

Photo: Screencapture The Olympic Channel
Photo: Screencapture The Olympic Channel

 

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IOC President Thomas Bach said:

“Congratulations to Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028! This historic double allocation is a ‘win-win-win’ situation for the city of Paris, the city of Los Angeles and the IOC.”

“It is hard to imagine something better. Ensuring the stability of the Olympic Games for the athletes of the world for the next 11 years is something extraordinary.”

“These are two great cities from two great countries with a great Olympic history. Both cities are very enthusiastic about the Games and are promoting the Olympic spirit in a fantastic way.”

 

IPC President Andrew Parsons said:

“I am greatly excited at what Paris 2024 and LA 2028 can do in terms of growing the Paralympic Movement and would like to send my heartfelt congratulations to both cities.”

“Both Paris and LA presented tremendous integrated bids and what I like about each host city is that they offer different opportunities for the Paralympic Movement.”

“Paris 2024 has a very strong desire to surpass London 2012 and stage the best Paralympic Games in history. Looking at what they presented here in Lima I really believe they can do it, however the benchmark will likely be raised by Tokyo in three years’ time. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will undoubtedly lead to social transformation and most certainly will make France an even stronger and more competitive player in Paralympic sport, especially with the development of France’s first Paralympic youth training centre.”

“With 11 years still to go until the LA 2028 Paralympics we have to go all out to ensure that these are the Games where the Paralympic Movement finally makes a breakthrough in the USA. This is a huge opportunity for us to engage the US market in terms of awareness, spectator numbers, TV viewership, commercial support and participation; it is an opportunity that we have to grasp with both hands.”

 

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said:

“We know that the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028 represent continuity with our city and this movement’s enduring values. Los Angeles reflects the face of America’s future, and the heart of American values of inclusiveness, of generosity and of unity.”

 

Tony Estanguet, Co-Chair of Paris 2024, said:

“This day, Sept. 13th, will be remembered for our two teams and for the IOC. Now let’s open, together, a new chapter of Olympic history.”

IOC Executive Board Meeting & IOC Session – Lima 11-16 September 2017

Links

Schedule of events
Paris 2024 Candidate City
Los Angeles 2028 Candidate City

 

Updates

15/09/2017 Press Releases

IOC-INTERPOL partnership helps tackle competition manipulation

Olympic Partners vital in the delivery of Olympic Agenda 2020

IOC elects eight new Members

IOC launches Olympic Refuge Foundation in its commitment to support refugees

IOC Session given update on anti-doping efforts

IOC elects Milan as host of the IOC Session in 2019

 
Videos

IOC Session – Day 3

 
Documents

14/09/2017 Press Releases

President of Peru H.E. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski addresses IOC Session

IOC elects former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to head its Ethics Commission

Olympic Agenda 2020 reaches half-time

Olympic Movement and athletes “All In” as IOC Athletes’ Commission launches ambitious Strategy

Games delivery in the spotlight

Keeping the Olympic Games unique

IOC names Worldwide TOP Partner Dow as Official Carbon Partner

 
Videos

IOC Session – Day 2 – Morning Session

IOC Session – Day 2 – Afternoon Session

IOC Athletes’ Commission Strategy

 
Documents

Olympic Agenda 2020: Half-time Status

IOC Athletes Commission Strategy

13/09/2017 Press Releases

IOC makes historic decision by simultaneously awarding Olympic Games 2024 to Paris and 2028 to Los Angeles

IOC reveals the future of the Youth Olympic Games

Olympic Games on track

 
Videos

IOC Session – Day 1 – Part 1 (Opening and Tokyo 2020 report)

IOC Session – Day 1 – Part 2 (Olympic Games 2024 and 2028)

IOC Session – Day 1 – Part 3 (Reports of the Organising Committees)

IOC Session – Day 1 – IOC / Paris 2024 / LA 2028 joint press conference

The future of the Youth Olympic Games

 
Documents

12/09/2017 Press Releases

IOC Session in Lima opened with energetic ceremony

 
Videos

Opening Ceremony IOC Session Lima

 
Documents

Opening Ceremony Speech IOC President Thomas Bach

11/09/2017 Press Releases

Declaration of the IOC Executive Board in Lima

IOC publishes Evaluation Commission 2028 Report – Commission confirms that Los Angeles meets all requirements to host the Olympic Games 2028

PyeongChang and Buenos Aires on track- Big Air confirmed in Beijing

IOC sets up USD 1 million emergency fund to help hurricane-affected Caribbean NOCs

 
Videos

Press Conference with IOC President Thomas Bach

 
Documents

Report of the Evaluation Commission 2028

IOC; 131st IOC Session Lima – Schedule of Events

Catedral de Lima. Photo by Art DiNo on Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Monday 11 September

Time Event
9 a.m. – 6 p.m. IOC Executive Board meeting

 

Tuesday 12 September

Time Event
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. IOC Executive Board meeting

 

Wednesday 13 September

Time Event
9 – 10:30 a.m. IOC Session
• Welcome by the IOC President with minute of silence
• Approval and signature of the minutes of the 129 th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro and of the 130th IOC Session in Lausanne
• Report by the IOC President

Reports on the activities of the Coordination Commissions and the OCOGs:
• Tokyo 2020 – Report by the Organising Committee and the Chairman of the Coordination Commission, John Coates

11.10 – 11.30 a.m. Vice President’s Working Group presents the Tripartite Agreement followed by Q&A
11.30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Evaluation Commission 2028 presents report followed by Q&A
12 – 1 p.m. City presentations (25 min each)
• Presentation by Paris 2024
• Presentation by Los Angeles 2028
1 p.m. Ratification of the Tripartite Agreement
Immediately afterwards Signature of the respective Host City Contracts
2.30 – 6 p.m. IOC Session

Reports on the activities of the Coordination Commissions and the OCOGs:
• PyeongChang 2018 – Report by the Organising Committee and the Chair of the Coordination Commission, Gunilla Lindberg
• Beijing 2022 – Report by the Organising Committee and the Chairman of the Coordination Commission, Alexander Zhukov
• Buenos Aires 2018 – Report by the Organising Committee and the Chair of the Coordination Commission, Lingwei Li
• Lausanne 2020 – Report by the Organising Committee and the Chair of the Coordination Commission, Danka Bartekova
• Shaping the future of the YOG – Report by the Chair of the Advisory Committee, Mr Ugur Erdener

 

Thursday 14 September

Time Event
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. IOC Session

• Keynote speech by H.E. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, President of Peru

Governance
• Ethics – including the election of the Chair, Vice Chair and members of the IOC Ethics Commission
• Audit Committee

2.30 – 6 p.m. Update on the implementation of Olympic Agenda 2020 – midway through

 

Friday 15 September

Time Event
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. IOC Session

• Reports by IOC Commissions
• World Anti-Doping Agency
• International Council of Arbitration for Sport

Report on the Activities of the IOC Administration:
• Sports programme of the Games of the Olympiad 2024
• Games Management 2020

2.30 – 6 p.m. • Host City of the IOC Session in 2019
• Olympic Refuge

 

Saturday 16 September

Time Event
9 – 12 p.m. IOC Session

• Members
o Re-election of IOC Members
o Election of new IOC Members
o Election of one Vice-President and two Members of the IOC Executive Board
o Election of IOC Honorary Members and Member of Honour

• Proposals from members

• Next meeting
o 132nd IOC Session in PyeongChang – 6- 8 February 2018
o Olympism in Action Forum – 6-8 October 2018
o YOG – 133rd Session in Buenos Aires
• Miscellaneous

 

Source: The International Olympic Committee. Please note all times are local times and subject to change.

IOC; IOC Members receive a commemorative part of the old headquarters

IOC International Olympic Committee / Lausanne Switzerland – Photo by hjalmarGD on Flickr. – (CC BY-SA 2.0)

International Olympic Committee director general Christophe de Kepper said:

You would have find on your desk a commemorative object. Which is in line, and is be designed with our sustainabilty commitments. 97% Of all material of the former IOC buildings have been recycled or re-used thanks to innovitive approaches. This object has been made from 100% re-used materials from the main entrance of the former IOC building. It is aimed at being a bridge, or symbolising a bridge, between the former and the future.

 

Last April, I visited the construction site of the new IOC headquarters. You can read more here.

IOC; Session votes in support of joint awarding of 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games

Today the IOC membership approved the following proposal:

“Recognising the exceptional circumstances and unique opportunities presented by the candidatures of Los Angeles and Paris for the Olympic Games 2024, the International Olympic Committee takes the following decision:

1. To authorise the IOC Executive Board to conclude a tripartite agreement with Los Angeles and Paris and their respective NOCs for the simultaneous election of the host cities of the Olympic Games 2024 and 2028 during the 131st IOC Session in Lima;

2. Should such tripartite agreement be concluded, the 131st IOC Session will ratify the tripartite agreement, thereby electing one city for the Olympic Games 2024 and the other city for the Olympic Games 2028. To that effect, the 130th IOC Session hereby waives the seven-year deadline set out in Rule 33.2 of the Olympic Charter; and

3. Should such tripartite agreement not be concluded, the 131st IOC Session will proceed with the election of the host city 2024 in accordance with the current election procedure.”

 

You can read the full press release here.

 

 

Press conference

IOC president Thomas Bach said:

“This is an golden opportunity for today, but it is of really great importance for the future of the Olympic Games because ensuring stability of the Olympic Games for 11 years is really, in our world, something extraordinary.”

“This is why we think that today this is a great day therefore the Olympic games and for the Olympic Movement. It is a great day also for this wonderful cities.”

“This is really a win-win-win situation for everybody.”

 

About the timeframe of the agreement Thomas Bach said:

“We will start right away. We will have a diner tonight and maybe we will already start talking over diner. But not forget to celebrate a little a bit.”

“I Have already appointed the Evaluation Commission for 2028 so that in fact from tomorrow on we can start discussing. But what we also have to respect are off course procedures to be followed in the two cities. So if you ask me I hope in August we could be there if everything is going well.”

 

Eric Garcetti (Mayor of Los Angeles) said:

“In the past we have looked at the Olympics as when we bid it is a winner take all. There is no silver medal when you bid. But maybe the better metaphor is, in Olympic history we have actually had 37 times which there has been a tie for a golden medal. And maybe today is the 38 time.”

“For Los Angeles it is a golden opportunity. One that we don’t take lightly.”

“I want to thank the people of my city. The Angelinos who have believed in the Olympics for over a century. For the first time in a generation we are going to bring you an Olympics home. For my daughter, for your children en grand children; They will experience what the magic of that experience is. They will see what it means to have the world in our backyard.”

 

Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris) said:

“I am fully committed with the Paris team to putting all my energy, our creativity and my resolve into reaching an agreement for Paris to experience once again this Olympic adventure that it has been longing for for 100 years.”

IOC; IOC Executive Board Meeting July 2017: Updates and decisions

Updates and decisions by the IOC Executive Board:

 

Rio 2016

On Sunday the IOC Executive Board met with de president of the Rio 2016 organizing committee and released the following statement concerning the status of the dissolution process of the organizing committee of Rio2016 (and outstanding payments):

Given that more detailed information is required before Rio2016 financial accounts can be closed, the Executive Board deferred any further consideration at this stage. The Executive Board state that the IOC has closed all of its obligations with the organizing committee in December 2016. As confirmed by the organizing committee. The IOC contributed a record amount to the succesful staging of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. According to audited accounts we contributed $1.53 billion to their success. This is in addition to an exceptional effort to significant cost savings and additional financial undertakings by all the Olympic stakeholders which amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars to make these historic Games possible.

 

Continue reading “IOC; IOC Executive Board Meeting July 2017: Updates and decisions”

IOC; Programme of the IOC Executive Board Meeting, 2024 Candidate City Briefing for IOC Members and IOC Extraordinary Session

The Lausanne Palace Hotel. Photo: Martijn Giebels / Architecture of the Games

IOC Executive Board Meeting

Lausanne, 9 – 10 July 2017
The Lausanne Palace Hotel

Sunday 9 July 2017
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. IOC Executive Board meeting
2.30 – 6 p.m. IOC Executive Board meeting
6.30 p.m. Press briefing with the IOC Spokesperson, Mark Adams

Monday 10 July 2017
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. IOC Executive Board meeting
1.30 p.m. IOC President’s press conference

 

SwissTech Convention Center. Photo: Martijn Giebels / Architecture of the Games

2024 Candidate City Briefing for IOC Members & IOC Extraordinary Session

Lausanne, 11 – 12 July 2017
The SwissTech

Tuesday 11 July 2017
9 – 10.15 a.m. Los Angeles 2024 Presentation and Q&A
10.45 a.m. Los Angeles 2024 Press Conference
10.30 – 11.45 a.m. Paris 2024 Presentation and Q&A
12 p.m. Paris 2024 Press Conference
1.30 – 6 p.m. IOC Extraordinary Session
6.30 p.m. TBC IOC President’s press conference

Wednesday 12 July 2017
11.30 a.m. 2024 Candidate City Briefing for IOC Members

 

All times are subject to change.

IOC; IOC EB Approved recommendation to award 2024 & 2028 Olympics at same time

 

Update on the 2024 candidature process by the International Olympic Committee (IOC):

The Executive Board also decided to put forward a proposal to the IOC Session to award the Olympic Games 2024 and 2028 at the same time. For this purpose the Executive Board called for an Extraordinary Session to take place on 11 and 12 in Lausanne. In its decision, the Executive Board highlighted that having two great candidatures from the Candidate Cities of Los Angeles and Paris is a unique opportunity.

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