The US Olympic Committee has announced that Boston will be the US’s chosen bid city for the 2024 Summer Games.

“We’re excited about our plans to submit a bid for the 2024 Games and feel we have an incredibly strong partner in Boston that will work with us to present a compelling bid,” said the USOC chairman, Larry Probst. “We’re grateful to the leaders in each of the four cities for their partnership and interest in hosting the most exciting sports competition on earth. The deliberative and collaborative process that we put in place for selecting a city has resulted in a strong US bid that can truly serve the athletes and the Olympic and Paralympic movements.”

USOC received bids from Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco and Washington DC to go forward as the US choice for 2024. Rome has already said it will bid for the Games, with Istanbul, Paris, Johannesburg and Melbourne among the other global cities to have shown an interest.

“It is an exceptional honor for Boston to be chosen as the U.S. representative in the running for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,” said the Boston mayor, Marty Walsh. “This selection is in recognition of our city’s talent, diversity and global leadership. Our goal is to host Olympic and Paralympic Games that are innovative, walkable and hospitable to all. Boston hopes to welcome the world’s greatest athletes to one of the world’s great cities.”

The last time the US hosted the Summer Games was in 1996, when Atlanta was the venue for an Olympics later described as an “unmitigated transport disaster”. One person was killed in a pipe-bomb attack at the Olympic Park during the Atlanta Games, and any future US host city would undergo huge security precautions.

Boston will have to submit its final bid proposal to the IOC by 8 January next year. The IOC will decide who hosts the 2024 Games in September 2017.