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Rome's city council to vote Thursday on 2024 Olympics bid

Associated Press
September 27, 2016 | 11:20am
ROME — Rome's city council will vote Thursday whether to support Mayor Virginia Raggi's rejection of the city's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
 
The motion is expected to pass easily since Raggi's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement holds a majority on the city council.
 
Raggi announced her formal opposition of the candidacy in a news conference last week, citing concerns over high costs given the city is barely able to have its trash picked up.
 
Raggi's rejection occurred four years after then-Premier Mario Monti stopped Rome's plans to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics because of financial concerns.
 
If the motion is approved, it would leave only Los Angeles, Paris and Budapest, Hungary, in the running for 2024. The International Olympic Committee will decide on the host city in September 2017.

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