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The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, are a forthcoming international multi-sport event. Bidding for the games will start in 2015 and the host of the games will be announced at the 130th IOC Session in Lima, Peru in 2017.

Bidding Calendar
The bidding calendar will be the following:

Invitation Phase

 * 15 January 2015: Invitation Phase opens

Applicant City Phase

 * 15 September 2015: The NOCs send the name of their Applicant Cities to the IOC
 * 7–9 October 2015: IOC to host information seminar for 2024 Applicant Cities in Lausanne
 * 8 January 2016: Deadline for Applicant Cities to submit Application Files and guarantee letters
 * March 2016: IOC Working Group Meeting to assess Applicant Cities (including video conference with each city)
 * April/May 2016: IOC Executive Board to select Candidate Cities
 * May 2016: Cities receive Candidate City Questionnaire and related documents

Candidate City Phase

 * 5–21 August 2016: Candidate Cities to attend Olympic Games Rio 2016 on Olympic Games Observers’ Programme
 * November/December 2016: Candidate Cities to attend Rio 2016 Debrief in Tokyo
 * January 2017: Deadline for Candidate Cities to submit Candidature File and guarantee letters
 * February/March 2017: Evaluation Commission visits
 * June 2017: IOC to publish Evaluation Commission Report
 * June 2017 (tbc): Candidate City Briefing to IOC members
 * Summer 2017: Candidate City presentations to the IOC Session; final report to Session from Evaluation Commission Chair
 * 15 September 2017: Election of the host city of the 2024 Olympic Games announced at the 130th IOC Session in Lima, Peru

North America
By 2024, it will have been 28 years since the United States last hosted the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. New York City bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics but lost to London. Chicago made a bid for the 2016 Games but lost to Rio de Janeiro. The United States did not bid for the 2020 Olympics. In July 2012, the USOC ruled out bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics and is focusing on bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics or the 2026 Winter Olympics.

On 8 January 2015, the United States Olympic Committee announced it has chosen Boston as the candidate city for the United States bid.

North America
On 19 February 2013, the USOC sent out letters to the mayors of 35 cities to gauge their interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics. Some of the cities included were Chicago, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, Charlotte, Portland, Phoenix, Columbus, Nashville, Rochester and Denver.

On 10 June 2014, the USOC met in Boston to confirm the shortlist of cities drawn up for the 2024 Olympics. On 13 June 2014, the USOC announced their shortlist for potential host cities: Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington. On 25 July 2014, city leaders from the four cities met with the USOC to hear about the nuts and bolts of bidding for the 2024 Olympics. On 26 September 2014, The U.S. Olympic Committee received near-unanimous support from the country's sports federations in a poll asking whether they would support a bid for the 2024 Olympics. Forty of the 47 national governing bodies took part in the poll and all 40 answered positively to the question. On 1 December 2014 all four shortlisted cities Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington met the final deadline to submit their bid proposals prior to the USOC Board Meeting held on December 16, 2014 in Redwood City, California. During the closed door meeting each of the four cities were given 2 hours to present their cities bids. Following the final presentation, the USOC announced that the United States would bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but did not announce which city would bid. On 8 January 2015, the USOC selected Boston to be the candidate city from the United States.

Cancelled potential bids

 * 🇦🇪 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 * A formal campaign was expected after the UAE’s National Olympic Committee announced in 2012 a bid for the 2024 Games depending on Dubai government's approval. However in July 2013 Dubai's bid was considered unlikely as there were still no plans to bid to host an Olympic Games in Dubai, but those had now shifted towards events further into the future.


 * 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
 * Ana Botella, Mayor of Madrid has confirmed that the city will not take part in the competition for 2024 Olympic Games after three failed consecutive bids (2012, 2016 and 2020). Despite this, all sportive projects and infrastructures of the 2020 Olympic bid would be finished on the date originally scheduled.


 * 🇰🇷 Busan, South Korea
 * Postponed their plans to bid because of Tokyo winning the 2020 games. The city was last hosting the 2002 Asian Games. The city decided to bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics instead.


 * 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
 * Toronto's Economic development Committee voted against bidding for the 2024 games on January 20, citing a bid would cost the city $50 to 60 million. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford suggested that a bid for the 2028 games may be more realistic. Toronto bid for the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics, but lost to Atlanta and Beijing, respectively. In 2009, Toronto won the bid for the 2015 Pan American Games.


 * 🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
 * On 31 March 2014 a political commission looking at the possibilities of a Mexican bid for the 2024 Olympics concluded that there were no economic or infrastructure conditions in Mexico for a bid to take place


 * Taipei, Chinese Taipei
 * Taiwan's capital and the country's largest city may put in a bid in accordance with a campaign promise made by then-presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou while he was running for President in 2008. It is seen as the culmination of a build-up in hosting sporting events for Taipei and the rest of Taiwan. Taipei hosted the 2009 Deaflympics while Kaohsiung hosted the 2009 World Games. Taipei is hosting the 2017 Summer Universiade. In 2011, President Ma Ying-jeou stated once again that Taiwan will bid for the 2024 Games. On 11 June 2014, the Sports Administration reported that it has no intention of bidding for the 2024 Olympic Games.


 * 🇺🇸 Multiple Cities, United States
 * Tulsa
 * Tulsa was originally interested in bidding for the 2024 Olympic Games and was one of 35 cities to which the USOC had sent invitations. Following high-profile news reports in several national newspapers, city officials distanced themselves from the Tulsa 2024 Olympic Exploratory Committee and declined to bid. The committee is still seeking the bid as a private endeavor, but before the bid can become official the city would have to approve it before the formal bidding process starts in 2015.


 * New York City
 * On 14 May 2014, a report in The Financial Times claimed that New York governor Andrew Cuomo was seriously considering an Olympic bid for New York City, if and when his administration received a proposal for the games. According to the Financial Times source, talks were taking place between the Governor and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and an advisory committee would likely be formed soon. However, de Blasio decided against the bid in late May.


 * Philadelphia
 * On 22 April 2013, Mayor Michael Nutter's office declared Philadelphia's interest in bidding for the 2024 Games. The city had previously expressed interest in hosting the 2016 Games, but lost out to Chicago as the USOC's bid city. The City of Philadelphia withdrew from consideration on 28 May 2014 in a letter to the United States Olympic Committee citing "timing" as a major factor in the decision. The city reiterated a continued interest in pursuing the games at some point in the future. On 28 May 2014, Mayor Michael Nutter announced that he had written to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) earlier that month, informing it of the city's decision not to pursue a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.


 * Dallas
 * Dallas was originally planning to bid for the 2024 games, but they were not selected by the USOC as one of the four potential host cities.


 * San Diego
 * After the multinational bid with Tijuana was rejected, San Diego had explored a possible bid for the 2024 games without Tijuana. They were not selected by the USOC as one of the four potential host cities.


 * 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
 * In December 2013, the ex-President of the Peruvian Sports Institute (IPD), Arturo Woodman declared that Lima should bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024. Additionally, the city will host the 2019 Pan American Games. Akio Tamashiro, Affiliate Manager at IPD stated that this would be the next target of the country. The Peru launch an application using the new infrastructure, experience and legacy of many sporting events as Lima 2019.


 * Due to the city winning the bid to host the 130th IOC Session in 2017, Lima cannot be a candidate city to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. On January 22, 2015, Lima's bid to host the World Games 2021 was lost to Birmingham, Alabama.

Sports
On 8 September 2013 IOC added wrestling to Olympic programme for 2020 and 2024 Games. FILA (now known as United World Wrestling) changed freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes for men and decreased to 6 categories in order to add more weights for women.

Broadcasting

 * 🇨🇳 China – CCTV
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Japan Consortium
 * 🇰🇵 North Korea – SBS
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea – SBS
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - BBC
 * 🇺🇸 United States – NBC