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City council votes in favor of Paris' bid for 2024 Olympics (updated)

Xinhua, April 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Paris council voted in favor of supporting the French capital city's bid for the 2024 Olympic Games here Monday morning.

After the City Hall of 163 councilors giving its backing to mayor Anne Hidalgo's resolution, Paris moved a decisive step toward officially announcing a bid with most political obstacles having been tackled.

Hidalgo, who was reticent for a long time, has in recent months come round to agree with French president Francois Hollande that Paris should host the grand event exactly 100 years after it last held the Games.

The French National Olympic Committee now has until September 15 to formally declare the candidacy to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.

Paris failed in bids for the 1992, 2008 and 2012 Games. The birthplace of Founder of the Modern Olympics Pierre de Coubertin has twice hosted the Summer Olympics in 1924 and 1900 when Olympic Games came as part of the World Expo.0 Boston, Rome and Hamburg have already launched their bids for the 2024 Games, with the IOC to make final decision due in 2017. Endi