Los Angeles 2024 Olympic Bid Logo Revealed: Photos, Comments and Reaction

Los Angeles revealed its Olympic bid logo for the 2024 Summer Games on Tuesday.

NBCSports.com's Nick Zaccardi provided an image of the insignia:  

A press release from LA 2024 explained the significance of its Olympic symbol, per Zaccardi:

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The soaring figure of the logo is a symbol of athletes reaching for their dreams, the original Spanish name for Los Angeles 'the City of Angels," and the Angeleno spirit of optimism and progress that defines Southern California.

The figure is illuminated, lifted and empowered by the rays of the sun, which emanate from a sparkling point of light at the figure's heart — a palette of colors often seen in the city sky both at dawn and sunset. The sun itself, which LA calls its brightest star, inspires LA 2024’s slogan, Follow the Sun.

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The other candidate cities to host the 2024 Summer Olympics are Rome; Paris; and Budapest, Hungary.

Hamburg, Germany, was initially among the five finalists, but it withdrew its bid this past November after a slight majority of citizens voted against it.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has been instrumental in the efforts to bring the Olympics to the city for the first time since 1984. Garcetti swayed L.A.'s City Council to move forward with the bid through unanimous approval last September.

One of only five cities to harbor the epic summer sports spectacle more than once (including Tokyo, which is set to host it for the second time in 2020), the City of Angels also hosted the Summer Games in 1932.

London is the only city to host the Summer Games three times, and Los Angeles could make history by joining it. Paris is also a proven, pristine site, though it hosted the Summer Olympics far longer ago in 1900 and 1924.

As Zaccardi references, the United States is in the midst of its longest Olympics-hosting drought, which adds to the stakes of Los Angeles' 2024 movement.

Not since 1996 in Atlanta have the Summer Games taken place on U.S. soil, and no Olympics of any kind has since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.