Candidate cities 2024 deliver vision, concept and strategy plans to IOC

"Today was the deadline for part one of the Candidature File: Vision, Games Concept and Strategy to host the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad 2024," IOC said in a statement.

The Candidature Process 2024 is the first to be launched following the adoption of Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement.

The new Candidature Process encourages the Cities to present Olympic projects that best match their sports, economic, social and environmental long-term planning needs. It calls for the use of existing facilities where possible, and provides flexibility for the venue concept to meet local sustainability and legacy needs and ambitions.

“Los Angeles, Rome, Budapest and Paris are all submitting projects fully in line with Olympic Agenda 2020. It is impressive to see how they have incorporated the Olympic project into the long-term development plans of their city, region and country. Coming from different starting points, for all four there is a clear focus on sustainable development, legacy and in particular how the facilities are going to be used after the Olympic Games. We are delighted to have four extremely strong candidatures and look forward to a fascinating competition”, IOC President Thomas Bach said.

Jacqueline Barrett, Associate Director Olympic Games/Olympic Candidatures, commented: “Following Olympic Agenda 2020, the Candidate Cities are making use of an extremely high percentage of existing and temporary venues, possibly the most ever. The plans received indicate very thoughtful consideration of what the Cities and their people need for the future. The IOC has significantly simplified the Candidature Process, symbolised by the fact that the submissions arrived for the very first time on a USB key only, instead of thousands of pages of paper documents.”

The new Candidature Process features a progressive submission of information to allow planning to develop organically and at an appropriate pace. The three stages each address different elements of the Cities’ proposals:

• Stage 1: Vision, Games Concept and Strategy (delivered 17 February 2016)

• Stage 2: Governance, Legal and Venue Funding

• Stage 3: Games Delivery, Experience and Venue Legacy

The next steps include the analysis of each City’s file by an IOC-appointed working group, which will report to the IOC Executive Board (EB) in June 2016. The deadline for submission of the Candidature File Part 2: Governance, Legal and Venue Funding is 7 October 2016; and for Stage 3: Games Delivery, Experience and Venue Legacy, it is 3 February 2017. At the end of each stage, the EB will confirm that each City will transition through to the next stage.

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