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This time, the venues would be confined to Los Angeles and Orange counties, said David Simon, president of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games. The one exception, which is typical for the Olympics, is that early-round soccer would be played in Las Vegas and San Diego. As in 1984, the soccer final would be at the Rose Bowl.
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Los Angeles has been the host of two of the most successful Olympic Games in the history of the movement, in 1932 and in 1984. The city's creative prowess and financial strength provide critical underpinning on which all else is built.
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Los Angeles will have to fight a "same-old, same-old" stigma and perhaps some lingering hard feelings that it didn't share the $225 million surplus from the 1984 Games with the international Olympics movement. And San Francisco will have to prove it can rally all necessary public authorities, a shortcoming in its bid to host the 2012 Games, some observers say.
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