奧委會宣佈2024年奧運五大候選主辦城市大綱

The IOC made its announcement, soon after the midnight Tuesday deadline for contenders, of five finalists to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games: the four European cities of Budapest, Hamburg, Paris, and Rome, and the U.S. west coast city of Los Angeles.

IOC President Thomas Bach called the finalists "outstanding cities" and predicted the race will be "strong and fascinating." The final decision is to be announced in 2017.

This is the first Olympics planned under IOC reforms that are geared toward making the event more cost-effective for host cities and more useful to their long-term development plans. Bach said Wednesday that the IOC will contribute $1.7 billion to the event.

Paris is bidding for a chance to host a centennial version of the 1924 Games held in that city, while Los Angeles wants a chance to host again after staging the Games in 1932 and 1984.

Los Angeles is the only North American city in the running after the withdrawals of Boston and Toronto, both of whom cited cost concerns.

Hamburg is to hold a referendum in November to determine whether city residents want to host the Games.國際奧委會星期二午夜申請期截止之後宣佈有五個城市入圍2024年夏季奧運會主辦城市候選名單。 這五個城市是布達佩斯、漢堡、巴黎、羅馬四個歐洲城市和美國西海岸的洛杉磯。

奧委會主席巴赫說，這五個城市都是優秀的城市，競爭將是“強烈和很吸引人的”。奧委會將在2017年宣佈最後決定。

2024年夏季奧運會將是奧委會改革後舉辦的首次奧運會。改革的目的是讓奧運會對主辦城市來說更具成本效益，更有利於該城市的長期發展。巴赫星期三表示,國際奧委會將爲2024年夏季奧運會出資17億美元。

巴黎主辦過1924年奧運會，他們希望在2024年主辦百年紀念版奧運。1932年和1984年兩次主辦奧運的洛杉磯也希望再有機會。

在波士頓和多倫多因擔心費用過高而退出競爭之後，洛杉磯成爲唯一進入候選名單的北美城市。

德國漢堡11月將舉行全民公投，以確定當地居民是否希望在漢堡舉辦奧運會。