On the occasion of the sportaccord convention in Aaarhus, Denmark, IOC Vice Presidents Yu Zaiqing, Juan Antonio Samaranch and Ugur Erdener, met yesterday with the Olympic Games 2024 Candidate Cities, Los Angeles and Paris.
The delegations were led by their respective Mayors, Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Anne Hidalgo of Paris. In separate courtesy meetings, IOC President Thomas Bach also met individually with Mayors Garcetti and Hidalgo to wish them well for the remainders of their candidatures. During the meetings with the IOC Vice-Presidents, the discussions focused on the 2024 Candidature Process as it heads into the final phase, six months before the election of the host city in September 2017.