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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to enter into an agreement with the LA 2024 Exploratory Committee to host a portion of the 2024 Olympic Games at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center area, adjacent waterfront, and other possible areas throughout Long Beach. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The LA 2024 Exploratory Committee (LA 2024) is working on a bid to bring the 2024 Olympic Games to the Los Angeles area. The bid package will focus on several possible host cities throughout the Los Angeles region, highlighting each. Long Beach has been chosen as one of the locations to hold several sporting events. These events will potentially attract 500,000 or more visitors to the City, and will receive national and international media coverage. Long Beach has served as a location for the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, and has had significant success in hosting large scale events, and has the infrastructure, location and tourism industry in place to make the Olympic Games a success. In addition to the Olympic Games, LA 2024 would also use Long Beach to host Paralympic Games immediately following the Olympic Games.
LA 2024 will create a transformative Olympic and Paralympic Games utilizing our City's ideal climate, its unparalleled culture of creativity and innovation, and its youthful energy to reimagine a New Games for a New Era. The bid will focus on existing venues, which allows for more focus on the athletes. The region's dependable year-round weather and clean air are ideal for Olympic and Paralympic sporting activities. LA 2024 requires that the City execute a venue use guarantee, which will guarantee the availability of certain City-owned venues for use in the Olympic Games. Major terms and conditions of the use of such venues shall be negotiated and evidenced by a future Venue Use Agreement, if Los Angeles is selected as host.
LA 2024 is required to submit their bid to the International Olympics Committee (IOC), in Doha, Qatar, b...
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