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From left, Casey Wasserman, Chairman of Los Angeles 2024, Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles, International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach, Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, Tony Estanguet, Co-president of Paris 2024, gesture, during a press conference after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Extraordinary Session, at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. If they can agree who goes first, Paris and Los Angeles will be awarded the 2024 and 2028 Olympics. International Olympic Committee members voted unanimously to seek a consensus three-way deal between the two bid cities and the IOC executive board. Talks will open with Paris widely seen as the favorite for 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott,Keystone via AP)

Donald Trump tweets ‘Stay tuned!’ with IOC close to picking L.A. for 2024 or 2028 Olympics

By Josh Luckenbaugh - The Washington Times

IOC advised to empower ethics panel, control $500M panel

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

File - In this July 4, 2016 file photo, the Olympic Park of the 2016 Olympics is seen from the air, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The International Olympic Committee said on Sunday, July 9 2017, that it has declined to step in and help Rio Olympic organizers with a debt estimated at between $35-40 million.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

IOC balks at helping Rio with $35-40 million Olympic debt

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany arrives for the opening of the IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland, Sunday, July 9, 2017. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

LA, Paris arrive for Olympic meetings; 2024 deal must wait

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, May 11, 2017 file photo, a Los Angeles 2024 sign stands in front of Staples Center, in Los Angeles. An International Olympic Committee panel has praised Los Angeles and Paris for “outstanding” plans to host the 2024 Summer Games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Olympic panel praises ‘outstanding’ LA, Paris hosting plans

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Rio Olympics look to IOC for help with $40 million debt

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - A Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Philip Craven during a press conference, in London. The host city for the 2024 Paralympics will be selected without the Paralympic leadership having a say in whether Los Angeles or Paris is chosen. It is the consequence of the International Paralympic Committee electing a new president in early September and the winner not immediately automatically replacing outgoing leader Philip Craven as an International Olympic Committee member. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Paralympics leadership denied vote by IOC on 2024 host city

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

SKorean president calls for NKorean Olympic participation

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

French trampolinist Allan Morante performs at the Petit Palais museum in Paris, Friday, June 23, 2017. Paris is aiming to boost its bid for the 2024 Olympics by turning some of its world-famous landmarks over to sports for two days, with 100-meter races on a track floating on the Seine, high-diving into the river, cycling around the Arc de Triomphe and other events to showcase the French capital's suitability for the games. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Paris shows off in race against Los Angeles for 2024 Games

Associated Press

Intel signs up as top Olympic sponsor through 2024

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 21, 2011 file photo shows the golden arches of McDonalds, in Omaha, Neb., McDonald's has ended its Olympic sponsorship deal three years early. The International Olympic Committee says confidential financial terms of the immediate separation were agreed to.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

No longer a combo: McDonald’s ends Olympic sponsorship deal

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

IOC ‘very happy’ with Beijing prep for 2022 Winter Olympics

Associated Press

International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany attends the executive board meeting at the IOC headquarters, in Pully near Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday, June 9, 2017. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

IOC pushes plan to award 2024, 2028 Olympics to LA, Paris

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee Chairperson Ryohei Miyata, right, and its member and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh hold new official logos of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, left, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games during the unveiling ceremony in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo Olympic organizers announced this week that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). The bid estimate was 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion). (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

3-on-3 basketball added to 2020 Tokyo Olympic program

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

LA Olympic leader: LA 2024 bid not only about LA or 2024

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee Chairperson Ryohei Miyata, right, and its member and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh hold new official logos of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, left, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games during the unveiling ceremony in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo Olympic organizers announced this week that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). The bid estimate was 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion). (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

IOC to set Tokyo Olympics program, add street basketball

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles. More than a million Facebook users &quot;like&quot; the idea of hosting the 2024 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.Los Angeles and Paris await their Olympic inspectors this week already seen as winning options for the 2024 Summer Games. Both cities host three-day visits by an International Olympic Committee panel, whose chairman does not doubt their sports staging skills. “Either way, we will have fantastic Olympic Games,” IOC evaluation commission chairman Patrick Baumann told The Associated Press.on Monday May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles mayor, in talks to lock down Olympics in 2028: Report

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, Craig Reedie, president of the world anti-doping agency (WADA), delivers his speech during the opening day of the 2017 WADA annual symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Thursday, May 18, a bit over a year after The New York Times revealed the sordid specifics of a doping scandal that pervaded Russia’s Olympic team, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s governing board meets. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP, File)

Isinbayeva out, progress made on sanctions at WADA meeting

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - This June 30, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Olympic Comittee Chairman Larry Probst speaking during a news conference in Redwood City, Calif. Tucked into the more than $257 million the U.S. Olympic Committee spent in 2016 was a $10 million payment to the International Olympic Committee designed, in part, to give the United States a better chance of hosting an Olympics someday — possibly in Los Angeles in 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

USOC paid its way back into bidding game; LA could benefit

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Co-president of Paris 2024 bid Tony Estanguet, front right, takes a selfie of the back row from left, International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission Chair Patrick Baumann and new French President Emmanuel Macron, member of the IOC Guy Drut and co-president of the Paris 2024 bid Bernard Lapasset as they pose during a group photo at the Elysee palace in Paris, France, May 16, 2017. France's new President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the International Olympic Committee to try to boost Paris' bid to beat out Los Angeles in the heated race for the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

IOC evaluation commission praises Paris’ vision

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press