Paris tells IOC it doesn’t want 2028 Games

The Paris bid team issued an ultimatum to the IOC: It’s the 2024 Olympics or nothing. With only Paris and Los Angeles left as 2024 bidders after rivals dropped out, IOC president Thomas Bach has raised the prospect of one city being awarded 2024 and the other taking 2028 to avoid there being a loser. But with less than six months until the vote, the International Olympic Committee is still hesitating over whether to go through with a sudden bidding change. And Bach’s vision to lock up Summer Games hosts for the next 11 years could be derailed by the insistence of both LA and Paris that they are only focused on 2024.