The US Olympic Committee has pared its list of possible hosts for the 2024 Olympics, and expects to use the next seven months to decide whether to bid.
After the board's quarterly meeting, chairman Larry Probst said on Tuesday that the USOC would take this week to contact cities that expressed interest in a bid.
He declined to say which cities were still in the running.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Washington were among those that had been receiving serious consideration.
Probst said earlier the USOC wanted to trim to two or three cities but wouldn't get specific about the number on Tuesday.
The last US city that bid for the Olympics was Chicago, which finished last in the voting for the 2016 Games.
Since then, the USOC has been on a mission to rebuild its international reputation.
Among factors that point toward a successful bid are the USOC's recent restructuring of a contentious revenue-sharing deal with the IOC, and the IOC's recent $US7.75 billion ($A8.39 billion) extension of its TV deal with its favourite American partner, NBC.
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