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Leaders of Paris' Olympic bid have been scouting L.A. venues

Leaders of the Paris 2024 bid spent several hours Wednesday taking pictures and videotape inside the Coliseum, Galen Center and a USC housing complex that would serve as a media village, a university spokeswoman said.

The French contingent was scheduled to visit UCLA — proposed site of the athletes village — on Thursday morning. The bid committee could not be reached for comment.

Paris and Los Angeles are considered the front-runners in a race that includes Rome and Budapest.

The Paris bid committee arranged its tours last week through the French consulate in Los Angeles, the USC spokeswoman said. The touring group includes Chief Executive Etienne Thobois and three of his top executives.

LA 2024 officials subsequently learned of the visit from officials at USC and UCLA.
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For the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, composer John Williams wrote "Olympic Fanfare and Theme", which is played in a medley with "Bugler's Dream." It consists of Williams's arrangement of "Bugler's Dream" which is similar to Arnaud's original but with a repeat of the theme with a full orchestra, followed by Williams's composition. Leo Arnaud was a composer of film scores, best known for "Bugler's Dream". Williams's arrangement of Arnaud's "Bugler's Dream" as well as "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" are both commonly used in recent Olympic coverage. It is considered to be a symbol of the Olympics.

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Amazing LA ’84 Olympics: $2 million 32 years later for local young athletes!

Surplus funds from the wildly successful 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles are again making a lot of Southland residents happy as 46 youth sports organizations in Southern California will share nearly $2 million in grants for more than 50,000 young athletes across the region, the LA84 Foundation announced Thursday.

“Sports really do make a difference, and LA84 is proud to support programs building up youth, both on and off the field of play,” LA84 President Renata Simril said. “Everyone deserves an opportunity to participate, and these grants will provide underserved youth with the chance to use sport as fuel for a healthy lifestyle and to learn the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect.”
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It would not be overstating it to call Allyson Felix the poster girl for the U.S. Olympic Track Trials.

After all, her likeness appears on a oversized billboard stretching across much of the back of Hayward Field’s iconic East grandstand, Felix, who competed locally at Los Angeles Baptist High School, looming, as she has over American track and field for much of the past dozen years, several times larger than life.

The 2016 Trials were supposed to be a dress rehearsal for Felix’s attempt at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at a feat accomplished by a man or woman only three times in Olympic history — sweeping the 200 and 400-meter sprints.

Two months ago, Allyson Felix couldn’t walk, hobbled when she descended from a pull-up and landed on a medicine ball instead of on the gym floor. Her right ankle collapsed. So, it seemed, did her dreams of a 200-400 Olympic double.

“My first thoughts were, ‘I can’t believe this is happening,’” she said. “It seemed like everything was over.”

On Sunday, the Los Angeles native and USC alumna blazed off the final curve and won the women’s 400 meters at the U.S. Olympic trials in 49.68 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year.

She has had smoother runs in winning four Olympic gold medals, including the 200 at London in 2012. She has had races that were more comfortable than she did Sunday, when adrenaline masked her pain.
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Turner/AECOM Selected To Build New Stadium For Los Angeles Rams

Hollywood Park Land Company, which is owned by The Kroenke Group, said today that it has selected the team of Turner Construction Co. and AECOM to oversee construction of a 70,000-seat stadium for the Los Angeles Rams. This new, world-class sports and entertainment venue is the centerpiece of a 298-acre mixed-use project being built in Inglewood, California by Hollywood Park Land Company.

Turner/AECOM is a joint venture combining two of the world's largest construction and engineering management firms. Between them, they have built 17 stadiums for National Football League teams and renovated 10 others. Over the past 15 years, Turner and AECOM have been the two largest builders of sports venue projects in the world.

"After a competitive review of a number of outstanding construction firms, we have hired the best team to build the largest and most technologically advanced sports stadium in the world for the Los Angeles Rams," said Terry Fancher, president of the Hollywood Park Land Co. "These firms also offered a well-developed plan for meeting Hollywood Park's commitment to provide substantial employment opportunities for local Inglewood residents and meaningful economic participation in the stadium construction process for minority-owned business enterprises."

"This is a key milestone in the process of bringing the NFL and the Rams back to Los Angeles," said Kevin Demoff, chief operating officer & executive vice president of football operations of the Los Angeles Rams. "While we will call the LA Coliseum home for the next three seasons, we are pleased to work with Turner/AECOM to build our new stadium in Inglewood. This world-class venue will showcase not only NFL games, but also international and national events, in 2019 and beyond."

Turner Construction Co. is the largest general contractor in North America and has more than 40 offices across the U.S. and Canada. Turner has had a separate engagement for the past two years of providing demolition, grading and infrastructure construction services at the site of the former Hollywood Park racetrack.

AECOM is a publicly traded international project management and engineering-services company based in Los Angeles. AECOM employs more than 95,000 people worldwide and had revenue of $19 billion in fiscal 2015.
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Robert Iger joins L.A. Olympic bid campaign

Robert Iger, chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney Co., has joined Los Angeles’ campaign to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The LA 2024 bid committee -- a private group working to secure the Games -- announced the addition of one of Hollywood’s top executives to its board of directors on Tuesday morning.

"Bob’s bold, innovative leadership at the helm of the world’s largest media company is one of the key reasons that Los Angeles speaks to young people all over the world every day,” Gene Sykes, the committee’s chief executive, said in a statement. “Now, we're delighted that he's going to share his expertise with LA 2024.”
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The Summer Olympics Should Always Be in Los Angeles. Forever.

Rio is an extreme example of what happens to almost all cities that host the summer Olympics. These days hosting the summer Games runs between $15 billion and $20 billion. With some good fortune, hosting may produce $4.5 billion in revenue—yielding a deficit of $5 billion to $10 billion. Not a favorable financial balance in the short run.

The roughly $20 billion that will be spent on Rio’s Olympics has pushed the city over the edge financially. The state and the city are bankrupt. Teachers are on strike. Public servants are protesting, carrying “Welcome to Hell” signs at the airport to greet incoming tourists. Meanwhile, the economy is in its worst recession in decades, unemployment exceeds 11%, and violence flourishes on the streets.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, recently said she would favor having Athens as the permanent host of the summer Olympics. The logic is mostly sound: why not build the required 35 sports venues, the Olympic village and the broadcasting and media center only once, instead of building them anew in a different city every four years? There are three problems with this symbolically soothing suggestion: one, what is Athens going to do with the venues for the three years and 348 days between each Olympic spectacle? Two, aren’t there better uses of thousands of acres of scarce urban real estate? Three, where is Athens to find the $2 billion it will need for security at each Olympics?

There’s a better idea: make Los Angeles the permanent host. It has all the venues, the needed infrastructure and the hotels.
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Congress Officially Backs LA’s 2024 Summer Olympics Bid

The effort to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles got a boost from Congress, with its members voting to throw their support behind the event, officials said Friday.

A resolution backing the bid was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives earlier this week, and by the Senate Thursday, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who co-sponsored the Senate version with Georgia senator Johnny Isakson.

“This resolution shows the International Olympic Committee that Congress is united behind Los Angeles to host the 2024 Summer Olympics,” Feinstein said.

Feinstein said the city’s “rich sporting legacy and history of cultural innovation make it the perfect backdrop to host a modern Olympiad.”

“Los Angeles is an international city that truly embodies the Olympic spirit and is ready to welcome the entire world to the United States,” she said.
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LAFC Stadium is the working title for the soccer-specific stadium to be built for the expansion Major League Soccer team Los Angeles FC.
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City of Champions Stadium is the temporary name of a sports and entertainment complex to be built in Inglewood, California, United States, about 3 miles (5 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to The Forum. The stadium will serve as the home of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) when it opens in 2019.

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A 2024 releases renderings of updated Coliseum, temporary swim stadium

LA 2024 officials have released artist renderings of an updated Coliseum and temporary swim stadium that would be used if Los Angeles is awarded the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Some of the proposed upgrades to the Coliseum would be included in USC’s planned renovation of the historic stadium, a project that is currently estimated at $270 million but could grow larger.

“Our goal with all of our venue choices has been first and foremost to deliver an excellent field of play and the perfect conditions for the athletic performances of a lifetime,” LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman said. “After that, we have tried to create an interesting blend of ultra-modern venues and upgraded iconic sites.”
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LA 2024 Olympic bid gets an advocate on athletes' commission, but so does Paris

Los Angeles' bid for the 2024 Summer Games got some good news — and some not-so-good news — on Monday as the International Olympic Committee continued its meetings here.

Former U.S. hockey player Angela Ruggiero, who serves as chief strategy officer for the LA 2024 bid committee, was elected as the new chair of the IOC athletes' commission.

In a world where connections can make all the difference, Ruggiero now leads a small group of athletes who will eventually take part in the vote to select the 2024 host.

She also earns a seat on the IOC's influential executive board.

“It is an important time within the Olympic movement and our [athletes'] commission has a great responsibility," Ruggiero said in a statement. "I will make sure our voices aren’t just heard but that they are effective and that we empower athletes around the world to do the same.”

If L.A. received a boost from the athletes' commission election, so did rival bidder Paris — one of its leaders, former canoeist Tony Estanguet, was named vice chair of the commission.
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Rams' first official practice since their return to L.A. is a reality show, in the best sense

is whole business about the Rams returning to Los Angeles?

It just got real.

On a cloudless, scorching Saturday afternoon at UC Irvine, it filled bleachers surrounding two makeshift football fields with nearly 10,000 folks who sprinted to their seats early and stood screaming for autographs late.

All for a Rams event that had no score, no statistics and no drama.

It was just a practice. It was just a dummy-thumping, horn-rattling, saggy-sweats practice.

But this being the Rams’ first training-camp practice as a Los Angeles franchise in 22 years, it was horned gold.

“The people in St. Louis were like, we can’t root for the Rams because we’ll all be at the beach . . . well, I guess not,” said Randy Troy, a member of the former Bring Back the Los Angeles Rams group and one of many fans wearing a sweaty jersey and a sunscreen smile.

They cheered calisthenics. They cheered field-goal drills. They cheered dudes making flying interceptions of intentionally lofted passes that they were supposed to intercept.
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Sean Mannion leads Rams to victory over the Cowboys, 28-24, in preseason opener

The Rams made the move from St. Louis to Los Angeles, now it's time to play football. It's only an exhibition but the crowd at the Coliseum could be the largest ever for an NFL preseason game.
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Can LA really win its Olympic bid?

Bill Hanway thinks so, and he’s in a position to know. As global head of sports at engineering firm AECOM, and before that with EDAW, Hanway has overseen plans for the games in London and Rio de Janeiro and is currently advising on the 2020 games in Tokyo. He’s also been deeply involved with LA’s bid for the 2024 games.

"I wouldn’t be committing two years of my life to this if I didn’t believe that LA has a very strong chance," he tells Curbed LA.

Part of the reason that Hanway and others are optimistic about LA’s chances is that the games have succeeded here before. The 1984 games, arguably the most successful ever, resulted in a surplus of $232.5 million—of which the city kept $93 million. Hanway says that leaders of LA’s 2024 bid are already analyzing ways to ensure future games would remain financially viable. "For us," he says, "the games are all about being financially responsible—creating a great games that takes advantage of the creativity and innovation that amasses in Southern California, and also bringing back some of the youthful enthusiasm to the games that only California can bring."

Another advantage for Los Angeles is that many of the facilities used in 1984 are still here. Plus, nearly every venue LA 2024 has proposed for use in the games exists today or is under construction. And while that means the games won’t result in a stunning cultural icon like Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, it also means LA wouldn't be stuck with any big and expensive venues that sit empty for most of the year.

"We have to show the world there’s a very, very responsible and responsive way to host the games without huge expenditures," Hanway says. "And the fact that we have all the venues in place can only be a fantastic asset to our bid.

Moreover, where other cities have used the Olympics as a means of improving infrastructure and mass transit projects, much of that work is already being undertaken in LA. "That infrastructure that is typically seen as part of Olympic games is already being done regardless of whether the games come to LA," Hanway points out.

Those improvements include a massive overhaul of LAX and the many transit projects planned, in progress, or recently completed. Hanway says these changes can only help to strengthen LA’s bid for the games. "Just the simple act of opening up the Metro from Downtown to Santa Monica Beach has transformed people’s perspectives of how to get to Santa Monica and the ease of doing so."
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LAFC Stadium to Break Ground on August 23

On August 23, Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) will officially break ground on a $250-million stadium in Exposition Park.

The 22,000-seat venue, designed by the architecture firm Gensler, will anchor a larger development featuring a conference center, office space, a soccer museum and 10,000 square feet of restaurants. The soccer-specific stadium will be highlighted by a series of glass canopies, that provide weather shielding for spectators and frame views of the Downtown skyline.

The new stadium will rise from the current site of the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, a dilapidated but historic structure that has played host to professional hockey, basketball, Olympic boxing, and even the Democratic National Convention. The 57-year-old arena, closed since March 2016, will be demolished.

Completion of the LAFC Stadium is expected in time for the 2018 MLS season. It may coincide with several other developments planned on the eastern side of Exposition park, including a proposed high-rise complex and the MyFigueroa streetscape improvement project.
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Rams Stadium Builder Talking With Locals About Jobs

Turner Construction and joint venture partner AECOM have been selected to build the brand new 70,000-seat stadium for Los Angeles's new professional football team.

Project developer Hollywood Park Land Co. announced July 14 that it chose Turner/AECOM to lead construction and engineering management of the nearly $3 billion stadium where the National Football League's Rams will play.

The new Rams stadium is slated for completion in time for the team to begin its 2019 season on the new field.

Turner/AECOM was selected as the stadium's construction team partially because of their “commitment to provide substantial employment opportunities for local Inglewood residents,” Hollywood Park Land President Terry Fancher said in a statement.

Turner has “engaged with the local community and the local workforce to begin the process of getting people to understand the scope of the project, what the opportunities are, and how to eventually get those opportunities to work on the projects,” McFadden said.

Preliminary construction and demolition work has been ongoing at the stadium's Inglewood site for the past two years, and the next phase of construction is expected to begin in the coming months, McFadden said.
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Rams expand Coliseum capacity for Dallas, Seattle games

Due to high ticket demand for those games in particular, the Rams will make seats available in areas of the Coliseum they originally planned not to sell — mostly the upper level corners.

The preseason opener against Dallas on Saturday, the first NFL game in Los Angeles since 1994, could wind up drawing a crowd close to the stadium’s capacity of 91,000. The club has made several thousand extra tickets available this week on Ticketmaster.com.
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