Toronto will not bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to multiple reports on Monday.
The city’s mayor had earlier scheduled a news conference for yesterday when many felt he would announce that Canada’s largest city was going to join a race for the 2024 Games that includes heavy favorite Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Budapest and Hamburg.
However, according to reports in the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star newspapers, each citing two sources with knowledge of the decision, Toronto Mayor John Tory has opted against sending a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
According to the sources in the Globe and Mail report, Tory reached his decision based on a tight timeline and lack of interest from the private sector.
The Toronto Star report said Tory’s decision was made after he “received a lack of corporate enthusiasm and without firm support from the province. Key potential sponsors have also been lukewarm to backing a Toronto bid to host the mega event.”
While opponents have argued that an Olympic bid would consume too much public money, backers were greatly encouraged after Toronto successfully hosted this year’s Pan American Games, the largest multisport event ever staged in Canada.
For 16 days in July, Toronto had a taste of the Olympic experience and ate it up with gusto as more than 1 million tickets were sold and Canadian athletes enjoyed unprecedented success in the multisport event between countries from North America, Latin America, South America and the Caribbean.
Toronto has failed in its five previous attempts to host the Olympics, the most recent being a bid for the 2008 Summer Games that ended in a second-place finish to Beijing.
The IOC, which set yesterday as the deadline to accept candidates, is to elect a winning bid for 2024 in September 2017.
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