Olympics hosts hope to get good news today

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The president of France spoke of a world needing Olympic values. The mayor of Los Angeles said his home could again be the “ideal Olympic city.”

Emmanuel Macron and Eric Garcetti offered a vision on Monday at the Olympic Museum of why Paris and L.A. should host the Summer Games. Both want it in 2024, one will have to accept 2028.

In separate visits two hours apart, Macron and Garcetti each shared a stage — and later a hug — with IOC president Thomas Bach.

Today, Bach’s hope that both candidates will win one of two Olympic hosting rights on offer should be fulfilled.

The full IOC membership will first see both candidate cities present their hosting plans for 2024. Then, the members likely will endorse Bach’s proposal to award two Summer Games at once when they next meet on Sept. 13 in Lima, Peru.

“This will create a win-winwin situation for L.A., Paris and the entire Olympic movement,” the IOC president said, standing beside Garcetti.

There is little doubt both cities can be celebrating by late-afternoon today.

Still, a deal to decide which will host first, and which must wait four more years should take longer to resolve.

Paris is widely viewed as favorite for 2024, its third Olympic hosting exactly 100 years since the previous edition there.

L.A.’s previous hosting duties, in 1932 and 1984, were “games-changers” for the Olympics, Garcetti said.

“At this crazy moment in the world when so much is unsure, let’s bring what we know to be true and good, and that is the Olympic movement,” the mayor said.

Today, Macron and Garcetti will join city bid officials on stage at a convention center in Lausanne. They must explain their hosting plans in videos and on-stage presentations to up to 95 IOC members. Those members ultimately will vote to confirm the hosts in Lima.