INQUIRER.net: Olympics: Los Angeles to seek 2024 Summer Games

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Olympics: Los Angeles to seek 2024 Summer Games Mar 8th 2013, 07:06 LOS ANGELES - Two-time Olympic host Los Angeles plans to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and the city's effort has some major celebrity backers.   The American West Coast metropolis, which hosted the 1932 Games and the 1984 Olympics that were boycotted by the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, expressed its interest in a letter to the US Olympic Committee (USOC).   "On behalf of the City of Los Angeles, I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," Villaraigosa said in the letter, published by the Los Angeles Times.   "We are proud of our... Keep on reading: Olympics: Los Angeles to seek 2024 Summer Games Media files: Olympics_Logo.jpg (image/jpeg)

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