While there will be no shortage of celebrity firepower and Hollywood pizzazz, starting with a visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday and a Los Angeles Dodgers game on Wednesday, LA2024 officials will be out to impress but at the same time emphasize that this is no Olympic blockbuster, like those that have been ravaged by critics for their cost and white elephants. NOlympics LA, on the other hand, does not want to "hand over the keys to our city to the International Olympic Committee, who have proven time and time again that their only interest is in razing cities for their own profit [sic]", and that "The goal of NOlympics LA is to get the Olympics out of LA, not just for 2024 or 2028, but forever, while we continue to build a foundation for other cities to oppose the International Olympic Committee and its false claims [sic]".
International Olympic Committee delegates got an early taste of Los Angeles's sporting culture with a trip to the city's famed Dodger Stadium baseball ground on Tuesday.
Los Angeles-based Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel was also in attendance. A Los Angeles 2024 sign stands in front of Staples Center Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Los Angeles.
The IOC will choose the hosts for the 2024 Olympics at a meeting in Lima in September. "What he embodies is completely in line with the values we want to wear".
California is expecting visitors Wednesday who will determine whether the city of angles will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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At the same time, USA leaders on Tuesday sought to stress that they plan to continue to involve Turkey in the fight against ISIS. But the United States administration has been sceptical that the Turkish-backed force was large enough or sufficiently trained.
The IOC evaluation commission is making a four-day visit to Los Angeles and the proposed venues.
Los Angeles 2024 bid chairman Casey Wasserman said he supported the IOC's move to reward both bids.
"That's against the rules", bid chief Casey Wasserman said.
"We don't think this campaign is only about the 2024 Games, we believe we have the responsibility to put forward a plan that will serve the Olympic movement long after the 2024 Games are over", said Wasserman. "We have UCLA, which is extraordinary, with handsome rooms [and] which can feed 10,000 people a day already".
The stadium will be used once more in the 2024 Olympics for track and field, and will be used as a enormous overflow arena in opening ceremony festivities that will be shared with the futuristic stadium being built to house the Los Angeles Rams NFL team. "Walt Disney once said, 'Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.' It is a philosophy that guides the Walt Disney Company today, and a philosophy that is fundamental to every aspect of the LA 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games concept".
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