Residents of
the German city of Hamburg have voted against hosting the 2024 Olympic and
Paralympic Games.
Hamburg was
one of five cities left in the running, alongside Rome, Paris, Budapest and Los
Angeles.
But 51.7% of
residents of the city and nearby Kiel, where sailing events would have taken
place, voted no in a referendum on Sunday.
Germany has
not hosted the Games since 1972 in Munich.
Critics of
the plan said it was wasteful, at a cost of €11.2bn ($11.9bn; £7.9bn), only a
small fraction of which had been promised by city authorities.
A spokesman
for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that "a great
opportunity for the city, the country and sport in Germany is lost".
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