Budapest okays withdrawal of bid for 2024 Games
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THE Budapest City Council approved a motion yesterday to abandon its bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games after a referendum push last month forced the government to withdraw its support.
A vote in the Hungarian capital’s city hall, which leaves just Paris and Los Angeles in the running, saw 22 councillors in favor of dropping the candidacy and six against. Boston, Hamburg and Rome had already pulled out of the contest to follow 2020 host Tokyo, all citing concerns about the costs. Last week a Hungarian government decree said that “the necessary political unity behind the bid had fallen apart”. This came after a group of young activists collected over a quarter million signatures, almost double the threshold required to trigger a city-wide referendum. The City Council had to vote on the bid’s withdrawal before the Budapest 2024 bid committee can officially inform the International Olympic Committee, which will decide the host city on September 13.
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