Budapest pulls out of running to host 2024 Summer Olympics

Budapest is officially withdrawing its bid to host 2024 Summer Olympics, a spokesman from the Hungarian government confirmed to the AP on Wednesday. Now that Budapest has withdrawn, the remaining two candidate cities are Los Angeles and Paris. The International Olympic Committee will make its decision in September. The decision to pull out of the bidding process was a result of declining support both nationally and within the city itself, as well as lack of support from the reigning political party. "Now, near the finish line, they are destroying the dream which they earlier supported,"