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Revised LA 2024 Bid Reveals Honda Center, Long Beach Additions As Host Sites

Should L.A. be awarded the '24 Games, Anaheim's Honda Center "would host the volleyball competition and Long Beach would be home to six sports as part of a revised plan that extends the footprint" for the Olympics that originally was centralized in L.A., according to a front-page piece by Scott Reid of the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. LA 2024 officials also are in talks with state and Riverside County officials about "making Lake Perris the Olympic rowing and canoe venue." LA 2024 officials said that Riviera Country Club in L.A. "would host the golf competition," and the Rams' new stadium in Inglewood "will also be part of the final bid." The revised plan "focuses on four Olympic sports parks and emphasizes the proximity to public transportation" and the L.A. and Orange County region's "wealth of world class facilities." It "comes just days before the Oct. 7 deadline" for '24 bid candidate cities to submit to the IOC their Stage II bid. Reid notes the "shift away from a more compact venue plan" brings LA 2024's bid into "closer alignment with Agenda 2020, a series of IOC reforms that emphasize sustainability." The revised plan also "allows LA 2024 to use UCLA venues as training facilities for athletes staying in the Olympic Village on the Westwood campus." Long Beach would "become a fourth Olympic sports park, joining similar parks" in downtown L.A., the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay at the StubHub Center. The Long Beach Arena would "host team handball," while the city's downtown waterfront "would be the site of open water swimming and triathlon." Temporary facilities "would be built for water polo and BMX within the downtown Olympic sports park" (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 9/23).

TEE IT UP: LA 2024 Chair Casey Wasserman said Riviera is a "world-class course," and the group feels it is the "right answer for our city and the right answer for our bid." In L.A., David Wharton notes golf was "moved from a municipal course in Griffith Park to the Pacific Palisades" because the Int'l Golf Federation "liked the idea of playing at a club that has hosted the U.S. Open and two PGA Championships" (L.A. TIMES, 9/23). But GOLF DIGEST's Joel Beall wrote while golf's return to the Summer Games in Rio was "ultimately viewed as a success, there remains a chance the sport will be voted out of the Olympics" following '20 (GOLFDIGEST.com, 9/22).

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