Summary Government will financially support venues around Paris capable of hosting international events
PARIS (AFP) - The Paris regional government will provide 145 million euros ($162.9 million, �125.6 million) to support the French capital s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, it announced on Friday.
The sum from the Ile-de-France, to go towards sporting facilities and transport among other things, matches that committed earlier this week by the City Council of Paris itself.
The regional government will financially support venues around Paris capable of hosting international sporting events like the existing Velodrome at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the nearby Golf National, and a canoeing venue east of the capital that is currently under construction.
Paris is in competition with Budapest, Los Angeles and Rome to stage the Games in 2024, although the Italian capital s prospects appear to be in tatters after the city s mayor, Virginia Raggi, said this week she would not give her backing to its bid.
After the first dossier on the "concept" of the Games on February 17, a second will be prepared for October 7 on the legal side and financing.
The International Olympic Committee will reveal the 2024 bid winner in Lima on September 13, 2017.
