{"id":1151,"date":"2019-03-27T03:47:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:47:12","slug":"las-mayor-has-a-brilliant-idea-to-land-the-olympics-and-fund-youth-sports-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"LA&rsquo;s Mayor Has A Brilliant Idea To Land The Olympics And Fund Youth Sports At The Same Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles is one of the few places left that <em>actually wants <\/em>to host the Olympic Games. Huge cost overruns to build up for an Olympiad, followed by\u00a0the expense of maintaining a bunch of white elephant sports facilities after the athletes leave\u00a0(<em>How much use is there\u00a0for a velodrome anyway?<\/em>) is causing potential host cities to shy away. However, when LA welcomed the world in 1984, the city actually turned a profit on the Games. Even better, those profits have been funding youth sports initiatives for more than 30 years through the LA84 Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>So getting the Games back has been a pet project of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti. He and the LA Organizing Committee have been all in to land the 2024 Summer Olympics, facing stiff competition from Paris\u2014which lost out on the 2012 Games to London and seems to have the inside track. Which means\u00a0that it might be better for LA to aim for 2028 instead. Garcetti has repeatedly stated he wants no part of that. \u201cWe\u2019re eager, ready, and excited to host 2024, and that is all we are focused on,\u201d\u00a0he said earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears Garcetti and company\u00a0have devised a plan that could make everyone happy: Paris gets their Games,\u00a0LA hosts one too, and, even better, LA gets more youth sports funding out of an Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Garcetti confirmed that he\u2019\u200bs in negotiations with the International Olympic Committee to pass on the 2024 Olympics so Paris can host them, in exchange for LA waiting four extra years and\u00a0taking the 2028 edition. The catch is that the IOC would kick in funds for the mayor\u2019s ambitious youth sports initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we\u2019ve talked to the Olympics,\u00a0they\u2019ve asked us to think about\u2014both Paris and us\u2014what would it take for us to consider one of us going first and the other going second,\u201d\u00a0Garcetti said at a press conference. \u201cMy dream is not so much just to bring the Olympics here, but is to bring youth sports for free to every zip code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If this plan goes forward, the IOC will have to decide next week whether to accept a joint bid from two cities at the same time, which it has never done before.\u00a0That would mean that when the IOC awards the 2024\u00a0Games\u00a0this September, they could bypass a bidding process for the 2028 Olympics and give it to LA right then. Russia, of course, hearing of this plan, has instantly thrown a wrench in the works, now saying they\u2019ll bid for 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That could mean that Paris will get the 2024 Games and LA might possibly wind up with nothing. Classic Russia:\u00a0They actively try to\u00a0subvert both America and France, but only effectively derail the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles is one of the few places left that actually wants to host the Olympic Games. Huge cost overruns to build up for an Olympiad, followed by\u00a0the expense of maintaining a bunch of white elephant sports facilities after the athletes leave\u00a0(How much use is there\u00a0for a velodrome anyway?) is causing potential host cities to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}