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LA City Council votes in favor to bid to host 2024 Olympics

By Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio

Published September 1, 2015

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11 / AP) - The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously in favor of participating in a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

One councilman is calling today's decision "the engagement'' rather than "the wedding'' that will begin a negotiation process.

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