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Non-selected bid Washington 2024, the bid team dedicated to bringing the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to the Capital Region, was led by Russ Ramsey, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, and Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, and former America Online executive.
In 2013, Washington, D.C., businessman Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards, [37] recruited Ramsey for an effort to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to the city. [26] Ramsey was selected in March 2014 as chairman and CEO of the nonprofit Washington 2024, founded to run the city's effort to host the games. [ 16 ]
Leonsis was vice chairman of Washington 2024, the region's bid for Summer 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In June 2014 the United States Olympic Committee identified Washington and three other cities as potential locations. The USOC ultimately selected Los Angeles, which lost the 2024 bid, but was awarded the 2028 Summer Games.
2024 Washington Initiative 2124 – Proposal to make employee participation in state long-term care program voluntary November 19–20: The November 2024 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone resulted in over 600,000 people in the Seattle area without electricity, and killed two Washington individuals.
On August 19, 2024, Harris filed paperwork to begin planning for a potential presidential transition. [127] Harris's transition team was chaired by US Ambassador to ASEAN Yohannes Abraham as the director of day-to-day operations, [128] [129] who also chaired the presidential transition of Joe Biden in 2020 and was a former staffer in the Obama ...
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Lynch was a member of the 2001 team which submitted the District of Columbia's bid for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. [23] He was also a member of the 2014 team which submitted the District's bid for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. [24]
A static top four in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings will be followed by a series of key decisions involving one-, two- and three-loss teams.. Maybe the biggest debate will be ...