France Announces Government Worker Bonuses in Bid to Avoid Paris Olympics Strikes
The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympics in a bid to avoid strikes.
The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympics in a bid to avoid strikes.
Migrants living in camps along the Seine River in Paris were removed on Tuesday amid a cleanup effort for next year’s Summer Olympics.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Breakdancing moved a step closer to the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and now organizers can look to book a street venue in Paris.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — This was one of those rare Olympic moments where everyone walked away a winner.
Paris for 2024. Los Angeles for 2028. And the International Olympic Committee for transforming an unruly bidding process to lock down its future by choosing not one, but two Summer Olympics hosts at the same time.
If it seemed like two of the worst mayors in the world had become the front-runners to host the 2024 Olympics, that’s because they have.
The head of the group attempting to bring the 2024 Olympics to Los Angeles says he has a much better supporter in Donald Trump than he had in Barack Obama.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Donald Trump may have given his unequivocal support to Los Angeles’s bid for the 2024 Olympics but the tumultuous first few weeks of his presidency have dealt a blow to the city’s hopes of staging the games, analysts say.
Let the games begin! That would be the abbreviated version of the message President Donald Trump delivered to the International Olympic Committee on where he stands with America’s bid to have the 2024 games held in Los Angeles.
PARIS (AP) — On a day when the Paris bid committee was supposed to show its best to the world, a knife attack on a solider raised more security questions about the French capital’s capacity to host the 2024 Olympics in a safe atmosphere.
Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he is concerned that President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including his recent executive order on terror-prone countries, his plans to end “sanctuary cities” and his intention to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border, could harm Los Angeles’s bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
Now that Boston has withdrawn from bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the moribund offer from Los Angeles has been revivified, but the Los Angeles City Council’s demand that it have power to veto any taxpayer guarantee for financial losses may sink the city’s bid.
The Los Angeles City Council gave the green light on Tuesday to a proposal that will allow L.A. to join Rome, Paris, Hamburg, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary as a contender for the 2024 Olympics. Moments after the 15-0 vote went
The U.S. Olympic Committee announced it would be focusing its efforts on making Los Angeles its choice for the coveted games.