Signals over the last few days have indicated that, as it stands, the awarding of both the 2024 and 2028

Olympic Games this year to Los Angeles and Paris is a question of "how" rather than "if".

choose which one out of Los Angeles and Paris they would like to host either.In theory, this will negate

Secondly, representatives from Paris and Los Angeles could broker a deal either between themselves or

But there have certainly been indications towards Paris for 2024 and Los Angeles for 2028.

 I am not completely sure about this and it would certainly be far too early to write Los Angeles

Games does seem to make more sense for Los Angeles.

Paris 2024 co-chair Bernard Lapasset has claimed Biarritz hosting the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games here demonstrates France's "expertise in organising major international sporting events".

to win individual and team medals.ISA President Fernando Aguerre claimed yesterday that if Paris and Los

Angeles were to be the next two Olympic host cities then surfing would definitely benefit.Although both

Games, there is increasing speculation that the International Olympic Committee will also award the 2028

It is the same with Los Angeles."

The IOC Executive Board are due to meet on June 9 to consider plans to also award the 2028 edition this

a part of the Olympic programme for another two Games if the decision to jointly award the 2024 and 2028

the opening day of the 2017 World Surfing Games here in Biarritz, Aguerre claimed that if Paris and Los

Angeles were to be the next two host cities then surfing would definitely benefit.

“It is the same with Los Angeles“I said earlier today that Biarritz is the California of Europe because

good possibility that surfing will continue to be in the Olympic movement especially if the 2024 and 2028

Executive Board meeting is due to be held on June 9 to accelerate plans to jointly award the 2024 and 2028

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is reportedly using his city's bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic

claim that they are not dependent on public funding for any area except for security.According to the Los

 The Athletes' Village is due to be based at UCLA during Los Angeles 2024 ©Getty ImagesOther forms

Angeles 2024 spokesperson told insidethegames ."

One of the major selling points of Los Angeles 2024 is that they will organise an Olympic and Paralympic

 The IOC Executive Board are due to meet on June 9 to consider plans to also award the 2028 edition

Executive Board meeting is due to be held on June 9 to accelerate plans to jointly award the 2024 and 2028

It seems virtually certain that they are seeking to press ahead with plans to award both Los Angeles

He also attended last week's Evaluation Commission visits to Los Angeles and Paris where Patrick Baumann

event or whether the IOC will seek to make decisions via three-party talks with representatives from Los

Angeles and Paris.IOC members are still keen to exercise their right to hold a legitimate vote.

Paris then Los Angeles? Or Los Angeles then Paris?

It's what they say and do that counts.”Los Angeles and Paris have been saying and doing all the right

Angeles bid.Members of the IOC Evaluation Commission and the Los Angeles 2024 committee gather outside

the Memorial Coliseum stadium after a venue tour earlier this month ©Getty ImagesBut if Los Angeles

But by its very nature, and given its manifest preparedness, the Los Angeles Games of either 2024 of

2028 will not be transformational in the way that the 1992 Barcelona Games, or indeed the 2012 London

Two-time Olympic fencing champion and Paris 2024 bid ambassador Laura Flessel has been announced today as the new French Sports Minister.

Los Angeles is the French capital's sole rival in a race set to culminate in a vote at the IOC Session

appear increasingly likely to award both cities a Games - with the "loser" in the 2024 race given the 2028

Evaluation Commission inspections are undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Olympic journalism calendar.

Olympic and Paralympic Games this year made the inspections of Los Angeles and Paris particularly low

 The proposed Athletes' Village site at UCLA was a highlight of the Los Angeles 2024 venue tour

 Los Angeles 2024 talked about "being a bid also for California and the USA".

Barely a single person we asked in Los Angeles appeared aware. "Did we have it in 1984?"

 It is worth pointing out that, unlike in Los Angeles, we had a police escort for our media tour

French President Emmanuel Macron today told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission that he would travel to Lausanne for a key meeting to support Paris 2024. 

election last November, Trump did express a willingness to travel to the Peruvian capital to support Los

Angeles 2024.

expected that a proposal will be put forward by IOC President Thomas Bach to award both the 2024 and 2028

Olympics together.Once that is confirmed there is expected to be high-level negotiations between the IOC, Los

Angeles and Paris to determine in which order they will be staged.

French officials have again warned that their proposed site for the Athletes' Village will not be available beyond 2024 if Paris is not awarded the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Angeles 2024 have consistently tried to identify it as a major weakness.

Paris, unlike Los Angeles, do not have the advantage of existing facilities ©Paris 2024An IOC Working

Group is currently considering awarding both the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Summer Games to Paris

and Los Angeles at this year's Session in Lima.

Co-bid leader Tony Estanguet claimed they have not discussed or looked at any alternative sites for 2028

International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspectors have singled out the proposed Athletes' Village site for Los

Angeles 2024 at the UCLA campus for particular praise following a tour of venues here today.

Angeles already had its Athletes' Village in place was an advantage or not."

Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, speaking alongside bid leader Casey Wasserman ©ITGBoth Los Angeles Mayor

Commission, is currently exploring bidding reforms including the possibility of awarding both the 2024 and 2028

I’d love to go to Paris in 2028," said Garcetti, reprising a joke which has become a favourite in his

 "Maybe we don't push this hard enough, but we think Los Angeles is a romantic, passionate and warm

There can be few better gauges of the testing times confronting the Olympic Movement than a then-and-now comparison of context and atmosphere the last time an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission set foot in Paris in March 2005.

Paralympic Games are expected in the French capital on Sunday (May 14), after their three-day stay in Los

Angeles, commencing today.The very fact that this year's formalities will be done and dusted in a week

power-brokers somehow determine which of these great cities will get first dibs and who has to wait until 2028

the fourth floor of the United Nations building.The IOC Evaluation Commission are currently visiting Los

Angeles ©Getty ImagesHow, I wondered, could the architect of the Dayton peace accords that ended the

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has backed plans to award the 2024 and 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Angeles 2028.Garcetti, though, is confident that momentum is behind Los Angeles as the campaign enters

 "I absolutely believe in a scenario in which Paris or Los Angeles can have a stronger win in 2028

Los Angeles 2024 have been preparing for the visit of the International Olympic Committee Evaluation

Commission chaired by Patrick Baumann by dressing the city, including the airport ©Los Angeles 2024Los

Garcetti, elected for a second four-term as Los Angeles' Mayor in March, said.

A new group has been set-up to oppose Los Angeles' bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games

Angeles replacing them.

to oppose Los Angeles 2024 ©NOlympicsLA"We don’t need to hand over the keys to our city to the IOC, who

 "The goal of NOlympics LA is to get the Olympics out of LA, not just for 2024 or 2028, but forever

Other problems in the city cited as "priorities" include how Los Angeles has soaring levels of poverty

responsible, with no new permanent venues to build and a balanced budget," Los Angeles 2024 communications

Sitting with a group of consultants at last month's SportAccord Convention in Aarhus, we began to play a fun little game. "How about we swap roles," said someone. "We will ask difficult questions and you try and respond as if you were us."

always considered "comms" a bit of a doddle and fancied my chances, so I launched in with a spontaneous Los

Angeles 2024 response to that day's National Hockey League (NHL) decision not to attend the Pyeongchang

 A similar point could be made in recent weeks with regard to the possible 2024 and 2028 joint awarding