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Those expecting to throw the name in Toronto to the ring for 2024 Summer Games finally have a La playbook to analyze.

Los Angeles’ mayor has summarized how he intends to win the 2024 Summer Olympic Games with a $4.5-billion play, while Mayor John Tory stays quiet on whether Toronto will compete for sponsor city standing.

The comprehensive L.A. strategy released Tuesday both sets the stage for a possible Toronto bid and places the bar for any guarantees city, provincial and national leaders may be willing to make.

After working behind the scenes to ensure support, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s strategy contains both a renovated $800 million, 80,000-seat arena and a $1 billion athlete’s village.

Meanwhile, Tory has been working to answer questions in regards to a possible Toronto bid before choosing whether to sign a letter of interest, due Sept. 15.

On Tuesday, the mayor’s office said Tory isn’t yet able to create that call.

“We are actually in the procedure for examining the way the Games went, gathering info on the Olympic bid procedure and consulting members of council, the business community, the people and both levels of government.”

While Toronto will now be months on the other side of the task that’s gone into an L.A. bid if the city chooses to compete, personal digital assistants will also have the advantage of scrutinizing the American rival’s assurances before making their own.

The town also intends to turn a soccer stadium that was new, planned for completion into a temporary, 20,000-seat aquatics center at an added price of $100 million.

Get into a Toronto outlook, those site prices alone are simply above the $2.6 billion needed to finance all the essential state-of-good-repair prices for Toronto Community Housing over the next 10 years.

And Toronto, should it choose to compete, would be looking to build a fresh arena that is long-term or temporary.

During an early-2000s play for the 2008 Summer Games, Toronto tossed a new, seat – 100,000 arena and an athlete’s village in the Port Lands, which is still considered still be the table for an 2024 play. Those prices in present dollars are not clear.

Those looking at the readiness to offer in Toronto have said it’s essential that several of the Pan Am sites that were recently built can be repurposed, including a $56-million velodrome in Milton and a $205-million aquatics center in Scarborough. Those sites will be a 30- to 50-minute drive in the Port Lands.

The strategy also encourages a more than 14-kilometre metro line extension, increased railroad system with more than 30 stations that are new and almost 200 kilometres of new HOV lanes to be constructed ahead of the Games, in the following ten years.

Toronto transit, meanwhile, is definitely delayed by politics at city council — that’s still without definite strategies to get a less than 10-kilometre Scarborough metro or a downtown help line, as strategies for Tory’s 22-stop, heavy-railway SmartTrack pitch stay in preliminary planning phases, without any details yet on provincial strategies for high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes.

While discussions between Toronto as well as other levels of government continue behind the scenes, using a bid committee yet to emerge, L.A.’s Garcetti is encouraging widespread cooperation.

“The political leaders of Town, County and Area stands in lockstep support of bringing the 2024 Games to La,” the bid novel reads.

For Toronto’s 2008 bid and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, provincial authorities assumed responsibility.
It is not known what the government of obligation Premier Kathleen Wynne is prepared to generate. A letter of interest, step one, must be signed solely by Tory to get the procedure formally underway.

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The A’s scored 2-0 win over the National League West-leading Dodgers on Tuesday, Gray winning the pitch three-hit to bring out the four.

A’s dropping streak.

The streak played well and covered an average period of time during which Scott Kazmir, Tyler Clippard and Ben Zobrist had been traded.

With, 11-4 and is going to reclaim the American League ERA lead from Kazmir at 2.16. The A’s are considering as winners.

The A’s Billy Butler said:

“With Sonny out there it’s a completely different ballgame,”

The first baseman flops in the current game, with a grounder in the very first inning. “We’re expecting to win every time Sonny takes the hill. We expect to win every day, but it’s a different level with Sonny out there.

“Honestly, he pitched incredible. He didn’t need much to get that win, but he did everything right.”

Gray, who got the limelight for hitting two shutout against the Indians in Cleveland on July 12, back with third career two-hitter.

The 25-year-old Gray is not at all grayish expert, but isn’t ready to admit that this game had added worth for the contracts that break downs the club of much of its front-line talent.

“It’s no more important,” he said.”When the game starts, you have 25 guys out there, and you’re trying to win a baseball game. And I don’t think that’s going to change around here.

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Emergency officials, citing privacy rules, didn’t identify the actor but said the pilot, in his 70s, was taken to the hospital in serious condition. A person familiar with the incident confirmed the pilot was Mr. Ford.

“The incident was reported at 2:25 p.m., it was mechanical failure of plane, that’s what caused the accident,” Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Officer Nuria Vanegas said.

Actor Harrison Ford was rushed to hospital on Thursday after the small plane he was piloting crashed onto a Venice, Calif. golf course.

The accident is likely to revive debate over continued operation of the airport, nestled in a busy residential section of the city, which has been a source of controversy for many years. Some local residents have fought to close the field, or at least restrict the types of aircraft and hours of operation. Some aviation and business groups have resisted such steps, and federal regulators have been caught in the middle

Aerial images showed the single-wing propeller plan painted to resemble a U.S. Army Air Corps trainer from before World War II. It has a single fuselage with yellow wings and tail. The grass behind the plane is deeply rutted, indicating the plane skidded before coming to a stop. Fire officials say it hit a tree along the way.

 

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The San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raider are still in negotiations over their current locations and they both confirmed that they could share a new stadium in the Los Angeles if they didn’t reach to a solution over current venue.

The Chargers’ owner Alex Spanos and the Raiders’ John J Fisher and Lew Wolff struggled for years to reach deals on new local stadiums, however they showed their readiness to move to Los Angeles, which does not have an NFL team of its own.

“For the remainder of 2015, we intend to move down two tracks simultaneously,” the statement said. “On track one, we will continue to work in our home markets to find permanent stadium solutions that are publicly acceptable.

“On track two, we will work in Carson to preserve our options and the future economic viability of our franchises, in the event that our efforts in our local markets fail,” it added.

if the move happened actually, it would have to be approved by three-quarters of the league’s owners.

as a response to this statement, a group called Carson2gether posted a video on YouTube of the proposed stadium, which the Los Angeles Times reported will cost an estimated $1.7bn and would be built on a 168-acre site.

Now, The Chargers play at Qualcomm Stadium while The Raiders play in the O.co Coliseum.

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