Los Angeles 2024 Olympic Bid

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USC and UCLA athletes score 30 medals at Olympics

USC and UCLA-affiliated athletes scored a total of 30 medals at the Olympics in Rio, with Trojans bringing home the most at 21, university officials said Monday.

Athletes with ties to USC won nine gold medals, five silver and seven bronze, according to the university, which noted that a Trojan has won a gold medal at every Summer Olympics since 1912. A total of 44 current, former or incoming USC students competed in Rio, the most of any U.S. university.

The games featured 36 Bruins, with eight of them winning a total of nine medals, including six gold. Gymnast Madison Kocian won two medals — a gold in the team competition and silver on the uneven bars. Five current or former Bruins won gold medals as part of the U.S. women’s water polo team, while freshman soccer player Jessie Fleming won a silver medal as part of Team Canada and 2015 graduate Karsta Lowe won a bronze with the U.S. women’s volleyball team.

According to UCLA, 424 Bruins have made 687 Olympic appearances since the university was founded in 1919, and there has been a Bruin in ever Olympics since 1920 with the exception of 1924. A UCLA-affiliated athlete has won a gold medal in every Olympics in which the United States has competed since 1932.

http://mynewsla.com/sports/2016/08/2...s-at-olympics/

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Cracking the code: Kevin Demoff helps Rams find their way back to L.A.

As the football world would learn decades later, Demoff is unruffled by the big stage. The Rams’ top executive, whose childhood was steeped in pro football, was an integral figure in untangling the most confounding knot in professional sports. Demoff, 39, was key in bringing the NFL back to Los Angeles for the first time in 22 years.

It was Rams owner Stan Kroenke who had the resources and vision for a transformational stadium project at Hollywood Park, but Demoff was the point guard when it came to selling that Inglewood concept to the rest of the league.

“I’m fortunate to have the tutelage of Stan, who has really pioneered how you combine resources and sports in a way that has never been done before,” said Demoff, the Rams’ executive vice president of football operations and chief operating officer. “I’m grateful for his mentorship. He pushes our team for greatness and challenges us to envision the impossible.”

In January, what once was impossible became a reality. By a 30-2 vote, NFL owners chose the Inglewood project over a competing plan in Carson jointly backed by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.

“In my 45 years in the movie business, I’ve heard some very exciting pitches for movies,” said Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and an Oscar-winning film producer. “Kevin’s pitch for the Rams’ new stadium at Hollywood Park was just as powerful. He was passionate, informative, prepared and dynamic. … It was like watching a great trailer for a movie.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/l...nap-story.html

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LAFC Groundbreaking at Banc of California Stadium
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Hollywood Park Redevelopment Preps for Construction

The removal of two of Hollywood Park's landmark freeway signs signals that the planned redevelopment of the former racetrack has is on the cusp of begining material construction.

The sprawling project site - bounded by Century Boulevard, Prairie Avenue and Pincay Drive - will be converted by real estate firms Wilson Meany and Stockbridge Capital Group over the next decade into a mixed-use neighborhood featuring some 3,000 residential units, 620,00 square feet of stores and restaurants, a 300-key hotel and 25 acres of public parks. The 298-acre property - larger than the entirety of Disneyland - would function as a second downtown for the City of Inglewood.

However, those elements of the project have been largely overshadowed by its centerpiece: a professional football stadium which will be home to the resurrected Los Angeles Rams. The 70,000-seat venue, budgeted at more than $2 billion, is scheduled to open in 2019.

Stockbridge and Wilson Meany, as well as Rams owner Stan Kroenke, have enlisted a team of architects which includes the firms Hart Howerton, EDAW, Baldauf Catton Von Eckartsberg, Quatro Design Group and Mia Lehrer & Associates. Dallas-based HKS, Inc. has been commissioned to design the stadium.

http://urbanize.la/post/hollywood-pa...s-construction

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L.A. trying hard to bring Olympics back to U.S. in 2024

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was in Rio trying to convince Olympic officials his city should play host eight years from now. It’s been 20 years since the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. Since then, Chicago and New York have tried unsuccessfully to land the Olympics, points out CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.

“I think a lot of people are asking, ‘Who would ever want to bid for the Games these days?’” Garcetti said. “We know we could do a Games that would be profitable, just like they were in 1984 when we helped save the Olympic movement.”

Los Angeles was the only city that wanted the games in 1984, and it made money. L.A. predicts its 2024 Games would cost about $6 billion and generate a $161 million surplus from TV rights, sponsorships and ticket sales.

In the past decade, the Olympics have cost an average of $8.9 billion, with an average cost overrun of 156 percent.

But the L.A. mayor says bringing the Games back to the heart of Hollywood would not only be a win for his city, but the entire country.

“This is a movement that needs America, but I think America needs the Olympics, too,” Garcetti said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/olympics...ition-profits/

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2024 Summer Olympics | Games of the XXXIII Olympiad - Candidate Cities
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LA 2024 video marks one year until Olympic leaders select host for 2024 Summer Games

Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who discovered Lima, Peru, originally named the city Ciudad de los Reyes—City of the Kings.

Next September the International Olympic Committee and its 90 members will come to the City of the Kings to crown the host city for the 2024 Olympic Games.

One year out from the September 13, 2017 host city vote IOC members and international sports officials said competition for the 2024 Games is emerging as two city race between Los Angeles and Paris, both cities looking to host their third Olympics.

But a nearly as pressing—and perhaps even more revealing—question facing the IOC is will any other city join Paris and Los Angeles on the ballot next September?

The IOC is facing the likelihood that Rome, only months ago the self-proclaimed front runner with its European rival Paris, will drop out of the 2024 race any day now. Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has made no secret of her opposition to an Olympic bid and the Italian new agency ANSA recently reported that the bid will be shut down this month.

Hungary’s National Election Committee has until October 6 to decide whether to hold on a national referendum on whether Budapest should continue to pursue the 2024 Games.

November’s election, however, could give a significant boost to the Los Angeles bid.

“The Clintons are very supportive,” Garcetti said. “A lot of people (on the IOC) brought up the fond memories they had of Hillary Clinton, IOC members who said ‘I went to that luncheon when she was the First Lady in ‘96.’ So I think that a lot of people have a connection with the Clintons for sure.”

http://www.dailynews.com/events/2016...-olympic-games

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Rams doubled their worth by moving to Los Angeles, Forbes says

The Dallas Cowboys are still the NFL's most valuable franchise, but the Rams are rising fast and could soon challenge for that top spot.

According to Forbes, which Wednesday released its annual list of the NFL’s most valuable teams, the Cowboys are worth $4.2 billion, up 5% from last year and well ahead of the second-place New England Patriots, valued at $3.4 billion.

The top five is rounded out by the New York Giants ($3.1 billion), San Francisco 49ers ($3 billion) and Washington Redskins ($2.95 billion).

Propelled by their relocation to Los Angeles, the Rams moved all the way up from No. 28 last year to No. 6 this year. Forbes estimates their value at $2.9 billion, an increase of 100% from a year ago.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/l...nap-story.html

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Excavation for new Rams stadium could start in two to three months

Developers expect to start excavation for the Rams’ $2.6-billion Inglewood stadium in the next two to three months.

“From that point forward it just races ahead over a period of time,” said Gerard McCallum II, project manager for the Hollywood Park Land Co.

The city of Inglewood issued a grading permit for the 298-acre site earlier this month that noted “quantities include excavation for stadium”

While site preparation and infrastructure work has been ongoing for about a year and a half, the big dig will be the most visible sign of progress on the stadium that is expected to be finished in 2019.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...nap-story.html

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LA Rams New Athletic Practice Facility TimeLapse Video

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Looks like Rome is out.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/more-...D=ansmsnnews11

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It looks like Rome is out. Higher odds for LA now.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/more-...D=ansmsnnews11

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Revised L.A. Olympic bid adds Riviera and shifts events to Long Beach

From the moment they launched a campaign to bring the Olympics back to Los Angeles, LA 2024 leaders insisted they had at least one significant advantage.

Plenty of venues to choose from.

The private bid committee has now called upon that largesse to tweak their initial blueprint, adding Riviera Country Club to a list of iconic sites that already included the Coliseum, Staples Center and Pauley Pavilion.

“Obviously Riviera is a world-class course,” said Casey Wasserman, the group’s chairman. “We feel it’s the right answer for our city and the right answer for our bid.”

In an announcement on Thursday, LA 2024 proposed additional changes.

Volleyball would be shifted from UCLA to the Honda Center and a new venue cluster would be created in Long Beach. Bid leaders reiterated their intention to use the planned NFL stadium in Inglewood and raised the possibility of rowing in Riverside County.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...nap-story.html

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LA 2024 and U.S. Olympic leaders come to terms on marketing agreement

As part of its bid for the 2024 Summer Games, LA 2024 has agreed to terms with the U.S. Olympic Committee on a marketing arrangement that is required but has often been controversial.

The Joint Marketing Program Agreement outlines shared responsibilities — and shared income — between the host city and the USOC if Los Angeles is selected.

Negotiations were finalized at a national Olympic assembly in Colorado this week.

“We didn’t want it to become an issue,” USOC Chairman Larry Probst said Friday. “So we just made the decision that sooner was better than later.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...nap-story.html

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LA 2024 ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL WORLD-CLASS VENUES FOR ITS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AND INNOVATIVE GAMES PLAN
https://la24.org/media/922-new-venues

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LA 2024 Extol Successful Test Event Almost 8 Years Before Any Possible Olympics Opening Ceremony

Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Thursday celebrated the success of what organizers called an “Olympic Village Dress Rehearsal”. The bid last week helped facilitate the move-in of 12,800 University of California students into their UCLA accommodations, a process they say closely emulates that of the Olympic Village.

Should L.A. win its bid to host the Games in 2024 the UCLA campus will accommodate the athletes and officials in a location that is considered central in the overall Games plan and will provide easy access to four planned sports parks. 16,000 students are scheduled to reside in the facilities during the 2016/2017 school term.

In a statement LA 2024 explained “UCLA’s residential village offers fully accessible, modern housing, complete with beautiful reception and hosting centers; world-class medical facilities and expansive athletic facilities within walking distance from all residences; and a professional staff, security and operational structure that serves thousands of guests every year.”

http://gamesbids.com/eng/featured/la...ning-ceremony/

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Pasadena agrees to host Olympic soccer matches at the Rose Bowl

Pasadena’s City Council gave the go-ahead Monday to negotiate playing seven Olympic soccer matches, including the men and women’s finals, at the Rose Bowl in 2024, assuming Los Angeles wins its bid for the international sports event next year.

http://www.dailynews.com/events/2016...e-bowl-in-2024
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Lake Perris aims to be Olympic venue for Los Angeles in 2024

Promoters of Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Olympics have reached an agreement with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, which oversees the Lake Perris State Recreation Area near Perris and Moreno Valley.

Jeff Millman, a spokesman for the LA 2024 Exploratory Committee, said the group has selected the reservoir as its “proposed site” for those events.

If Olympic events are held at the lake, it wouldn’t be the Games’ first appearance in the Inland area. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, shooting events took place at the 44-acre Prado Olympic Shooting Park in Chino.

http://www.pe.com/articles/lake-8149...s-olympic.html
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How LA’s Olympic Bid could steer the games in a new direction

At a presentation to members of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation Wednesday, AECOM’s Global Sports Leader, Bill Hanway, explained that an Olympic games in LA runs little risk of encountering the kinds of problems that have plagued games in the past. In fact, LA’s bid is dependent on showing the International Olympic Committee that the city can set an example of a responsible and sustainable games that the rest of the world will be able to follow.

"LA’s benefit is that it sort of resets the argument," Hanway says. "You start by taking advantage of your assets and then working from there."

And that’s what makes LA’s bid so unique: the city isn’t trying to be Barcelona. Instead of trying to harness the Olympics as a force for massive urban overhaul, the privately funded bid committee is focusing on ways to make the Olympics work in the city that exists today.

It might not be enough to beat out Paris, but it has the potential to change the way cities approach hosting responsibilities in the future.

http://la.curbed.com/2016/9/21/13005...id-sustainable
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LA 2024 relocates Summer Olympics press center to USC in latest bid documents

LA 2024 officials have once again made adjustments to their proposal for the 2024 Summer Olympics, moving half of a large and potentially expensive media center to the USC campus.

The change was included in a second round of paperwork due for submission to the International Olympic Committee on Friday.

The “Candidature File Part 2” specified that proposed broadcast facilities would remain on NBC Universal’s studio lot — as part of an originally announced partnership — but the main press center would now be shifted to USC’s Annenberg Hall and Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

http://www.latimes.com/la-sp-sn-la20...nap-story.html
http://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/ro...pus-center-usc

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Italy halts Rome bid for 2024 Olympics

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more...D=ansmsnnews11