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Paris' 2024 Olympics bid boosted by regional backing

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been boosted as the regional council of Ile de France passed a resolution on Thursday to give its backing to the French capital city.

The council of the region surrounding Paris voted 136-37 in favor of the project with four abstentions at an exceptional meeting in the capital's seventh arrondissement.

Jean-Paul Huchon, president of Ile de France, said that conditions were better than ever for Paris to bid for the Olympics put together by the French sports movement to succeed.

Just under a month ago, the city hall of Paris council voted to support a bid of the City of Light to go ahead.

Paris' infrastructure budget for hosting the 2024 Games has been estimated at 3 billion euros, with operational costs of 3.2 billion euros, and the city may need to build a new swimming pool, an Olympic village and a media center as required in main constructions if bidding for the Games.

The French National Olympic Committee now has to formally declare the candidacy to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne before September 15, competing against Boston, Rome and Hamburg, with the IOC to make final decision due in 2017.

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. Endite