Los Angeles endorsed for bid

City Council votes to support pursuit of 2024 Games.

The U.S. Olympic Committee on Tuesday named Los Angeles as its candidate for the 2024 Games, replacing Boston’s soured bid and marking a comeback for LA’s dream of becoming a three-time Olympic host.

“I want to thank Los Angeles for standing up, once again, as America’s bid city,” USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said, adding that the city’s proposal squares with the Olympic movement’s goals of watching the bottom line while investing in projects that dovetail with community needs.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city was inspired to bring the games back to the U.S. for the first time in 28 years. Los Angeles was the host in 1932 and 1984.

“This is a quest that Los Angeles was made for,” the mayor said.

Earlier Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council cleared the way for Garcetti to strike agreements for a 2024 bid. The 15-0 vote came about a month after Boston was dropped from contention amid shaky public sup- port and questions about taxpayer spending and liability.

Rio’s dirty water: Olympic organizers promised to introduce viral testing in the polluted waters in Rio de Janeiro where about 1,400 athletes will compete in next year’s games.

The IOC and Brazilian organizers had repeatedly insisted that only bacterial testing was required despite an independent five-month analysis by The Associated Press showing dangerously high levels of viruses from human sewage at all Rio Olympic water venues.

Acknowledging that viral water testing was now necessary, local organizing committee head Carlos Arthur Nuzman told the AP his team was still studying how best to carry out the analysis and what pathogens to search for.

A German sailor who fell ill after competing in a pre-Olympic test event in Rio’s waters says he is recovering from his skin infections.

Erik Heil needed daily hospital treatment for multiple infections on his legs and hip. The Berlin hospital where he was treated said he had contracted MRSA, a type of bacteria resistant to many antibiotics. Heil believes he was infected while competing in a regatta in Marina da Gloria, where he says untreated sewage flows into the water.

Heil is back the Kiel Olympic sailing center in northern Germany.

He said Tuesday that after being “laid down flat” last week, “I am already feeling better.”

Logo woes: Tokyo Olympic organizers Tuesday decided to scrap the logo for the 2020 Games following another allegation its Japanese designer might have used copied materials.

AP Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984 and is the USOC’s venue candidate for 2024. The last Summer Games in the United States were in Atlanta in 1996.