As the USOC continues to consider the Olympic potential of about ten American cities, chairman Larry Probst said officials will keep a keen eye on the current 2020 Olympics bidding process to see if they can glean anything from the presentations of hosting hopefuls Tokyo, Madrid, and Istanbul.
Meanwhile, after a board meeting in Colorado Tuesday, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun told the Associated Press that they’ll look to narrow that list of potential candidates from ten to two or three by this December, and then decide by sometime in 2014 whether they’ll go all in on a bid for 2024.
The most likely American candidate cities for 2024 seem to be San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, a potential San Diego/Tijuana joint bid, and Los Angeles, which would be aiming to host its third Olympics since 1932.
Paris, which in 2024 will celebrating a full century since they last hosted the Olympics, is probably America’s stiffest competition for the honor, but Rome, Doha, Dubai, Nairobi, Toronto, Berlin and Durban, South Africa are also considering bidding to host the 2024 Games.