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Los Angeles officials were expected Monday to announce a deal with the International Olympic Committee to play host to the 2028 Summer Olympics, giving up a bid for the 2024 Games to Paris and bringing the Olympics back to the United States for the first time since 2002.

The city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, planned to discuss the arrangement at a news conference Monday evening, but in a statement he called the agreement “historic” and one that would “take a major step toward bringing the Games back to our city for the first time in a generation and begin a new chapter in Los Angeles’s timeless Olympic story.”

Already, Olympic officials had paved the way for an unusual dual announcement in the fall for the 2024 and the 2028 Games. Both Los Angeles and Paris were bidding for the 2024 Games, with Paris favored.

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 From left, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles; the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach; and Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris were pictured on July 11 after the Olympic committee’s executive board effectively guaranteed the two cities would each host an Olympics in the next decade. Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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