2024 Olympics: Los Angeles bid application cost €31m, two times less than Paris (€60m)

The cost of Los Angeles' (USA) application in the race to host the Olympic Games in 2024 was $35m (€31m), said Casey Wasserman, director of the Los Angeles bid team, on 19/09/2015. This represents about half of the cost of the Paris (FRA) bid (€60m).

“We knew we had to engage the business and leaders in the city quickly so that we could get our bid funded and get off to the work of competing for the next two years. And so we set a budget and raised that budget of $35m in seven days," said Casey Wasserman.

The host city of the 2024 Olympic Games will be chosen in September 2017 during the 130^th IOC session in Lima (PER). The five cities competing, besides Paris and Los Angeles, are Rome (ITA), Hamburg (GER) and Budapest (HUN).

Costs of the applications of past host cities