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CANDIDATE CITYOLYMPIC GAMES 2024SPOTLIGHT ON THE CANDIDATE CITIES 2024Los Angeles 2024’s slogan, Follow the Sun, is an evocative call to action for all of humanity to embrace optimism, reinvention and the promise of a better tomorrow. LA’s brightest star, the sun, is a metaphor for progress and happiness, and our slogan is based on these unique aspects of our city. LA 2024 wants to partner and work closely with the Olympic Movement to create a New Games for a New Era.Our emblem is inspired by the original Spanish name for Los Angeles, “the City of Angels”, given by the city’s first 44 settlers – “los pobladores” – who were African, Native American and Spanish. Our founders’ diversity LOS ANGELESThe Rome 2024 candidature committee chose a stylised Colosseum as our emblem; its three colours – red, white and green – exactly like the Italian flag, its dynamic shape resembling the lanes of a running track. These are the elements expressing the great beauty and culture of Rome and our emblem; its central role as a beating heart of the Italian nation; and its full sports DNA. The Colosseum perfectly captures the sense of ancient Rome. Our magnificent amphitheatre is simply majestic.The sense of greatness that the Colosseum confers leaves a ROMEAS OLYMPIC REVIEW CONTINUES TO PROFILE THE CITIES HOPING TO HOST THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN 2024, THE FOUR CANDIDATE CITIES Ð LOS ANGELES, ROME, BUDAPEST AND PARIS Ð UNVEIL THEIR EMBLEMS AND THE CONCEPTS BEHIND THEMand belief in a better tomorrow is central to our culture and our angelic figure. Athletic, dynamic and youthful, complementing the progressive, future-focused vision of the LA 2024 candidature, she ascends into the inspirational sunlight of the city.The figure is illuminated, lifted and empowered by the rays of LA’s year-round sunshine, which emanate from a sparkling point of light at the figure’s heart – a palette of colours often seen in the city sky both at dawn and sunset.LA began as the most ethnically diverse city in America and remains so to this day. This convergence of cultures led to the shape of the angel and its array of colours, and emphasises LA 2024’s true benefit: unity.sensation of respect and beauty – the same sensation that the entire world of sport will experience during the Olympic Games.  The aura of ancient splendour that endows the concept of the Olympic Games is the same that captivates whomever sees the Colosseum. It is a mixture of history and suggestion that fills the heart and mind with emotion. It is the place where about nine million people gather every year, it is the place where you can experience the Italian “art of welcome”. From the Colosseum, through the Games of the XVII Olympiad held in 1960 to Rome 2024. A never-ending story in the Eternally Olympic Rome.24 OLYMPIC REVIEW CANDIDATE CITIES 2024