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Olympic cities for 2024 and 2028

Is it going to be Paris or Los Angeles? The International Olympic Committee is expected to accept bids from both cities, but which will get to host the greatest sporting show on earth first?

Language challenge

There's an expression containing a part of the body which means to approve something. To give something the ______.

a) fingers-up
b) hands-up
c) thumbs-up

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The story

The International Olympic Committee's expected to approve bids later from both Paris and Los Angeles to host the summer games.

The IOC meeting in the Swiss city of Lausanne is expected to take the unusual step of awarding both the 2024 Olympics and those for 2028.

Key words and phrases

lobbies
tries to persuade people in authority to take a certain action

to OK
to agree or give approval for something to happen

woo
try to persuade someone to support you by being nice to them

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Language challenge - answer

c) thumbs-up

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