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L.A. City Council Questions '24 Olympic Bid Committee's Decision To Revise Venues

L.A. City Council members yesterday questioned LA 2024’s "recent decision to move two proposed venues" for the '24 Games, according to Scott Reid of the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. The council had been expected to "approve documents LA 2024 has to submit" to the IOC next week, but testimony on the submission before the full council "was postponed to Friday after council members complained they had not been provided documents in enough time to review them." Council complaints about not receiving key documents in a timely fashion "has been a recurring theme" in the bid process. LA 2024 has to "submit Stage II documents to the IOC by Oct. 7." The documents "cover governance, legislation and venue funding." Members of the council committee also encouraged California Gov. Jerry Brown to "sign legislation in which the state would provide" a $250M guarantee in the "case of cost overruns" with the '24 Games. Council member Bob Blumenfield said, "This is a critical decision, and our fate with the Olympics could hang on it." Council President Herb Wesson said that he was "disappointed by LA 2024’s decision to abandon plans for the Wilson Golf Course at Griffith Park to be the Olympic golf venue in favor of Riviera Country Club." LA 2024 had originally proposed renovating the Wilson course and clubhouse, but bid committee CEO Gene Sykes said that concerns the Int'l Golf Federation had about the course plans in the "wake of course issues at last month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and costs consideration led to the move." IGF officials were "particularly concerned about doing anything that would endanger the sport’s continued inclusion in the Olympics" (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 9/29).

TOKYO DRIFT: In DC, Matt Bonesteel noted Tokyo officials in their winning bid for the '20 Games promised a "compact Games, with 28 of the 31 competition venues within about a five-mile radius of the Olympic Village." But in the "wake of soaring costs involved with building a number of temporary venues and other budgetary missteps, that promise is on the verge of being abandoned." A Japanese government panel now will "recommend venue changes to a number of sports -- including volleyball, swimming, rowing and canoe sprint -- so that Olympic organizers can utilize existing venues instead of building new ones." The move comes as the cost of the '20 Games "has skyrocketed in recent years thanks to budget miscalculations and the fact that the Japanese government scrapped its initial plans for a new Olympic Stadium and started over from scratch, also because of spiraling costs" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 9/28).

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