The Olympic Committee of Italy announced the withdrawal of the application of Rome to host the summer Olympic games in 2024.
“Today I wrote a letter to the international Olympic Committee, which said that we make our candidacy to host Olympic games in 2024,” – said the head of the National Olympic Committee of Italy Giovanni Malaga.
The national Olympic Committee of Italy has also called a press conference to confirm the finality of the decision. The main reason for the refusal to fight for
The Olympics-2024 was the financial factor and the reluctance of the new mayor of the city of Virginia Raja to take on the many problems associated with holding in Rome of the main sports event held every four years.
After the withdrawal of the candidature of Paris for the Olympics-2024 there are only three contenders – Paris (France), Budapest (Hungary) and Los Angeles (USA). Of the above cities, only Budapest has never hosted the Olympic games. In the Paris Olympics took place in 1924 and Los Angeles in 1932 and 1984.
The venue of the summer Olympic games in 2024 will be announced on 15 September of the following year at the 130th session of the International Olympic Committee in Lima (Peru).
