'Brand new city': Mayor says LA ready to host 2024 Summer Games Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is joined by other members of the LA 2024 bid committee, as the group campaigns on the sidelines of the 2016 Rio Games. Garcetti insists Los Angeles has transformed into a "brand new city" since the 1984 Summer Games were held there, but has retained the "spirit of a city that can innovate and that can manage." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES