As expected, the 2024 Olympics will go to Paris and 2028 to Los Angeles as the International Olympic Committee changed its normal timeline — bids usually are handed out five to seven years in advance — and procedures in the face of few cities having interest in bidding for an event that can be a financial disaster.
For 2024, Boston, Budapest, Hungary, Hamburg, Germany, and Rome had backed away in response to public opposition, which IOC President Thomas Bach has called the...