KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - There will be no referendum to decide whether Rome's 2024 summer Olympics bid should go ahead despite the city's withdrawal of a previous bid in 2012 over financial concerns, Italian bid officials said on Sunday.
Rome campaigned briefly for the 2020 summer Olympics but the government pulled the plug on the bid saying the country's difficult economic situation at the time would prevent it from offering the necessary financial guarantees.
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