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Rome mayor nixes 2024 Olympic bid
Italy's Olympic Committee has officially withdrawn its bid to stage the 2024 Games in Rome after the city council voted to oppose the project, committee chief Giovanni Malago said on Tuesday. Malago said the decision was final and cannot be changed. He added that he had written a letter to the International Olympic Committee breaking off their candidature for the Olympic Games in 2024. The host of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games is scheduled to be announced at the 130th International Olympic Committee Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September. Bidding for the games started in 2015, with five candidate cities in contention, but Hamburg and Rome subsequently withdrew. The three remaining candidate sites are Budapest, Los Angeles, and Paris.
