The 2024 Summer Olympics location is down to four cities after a majority of residents in Hamburg, Germany, voted against hosting the games on Sunday.
According to a report from the BBC, 51.7 percent of Hamburg and Kiel residents "voted no in a referendum" to have a chance at hosting the Olympics in nine years.
Per the BBC, criticism stemmed from a plan that would have cost approximately €11.2 billion, with city authorities having only promised to cover "a small fraction" of the expenditure.
According to Ciaran Fahey of the Associated Press, additional reasons for citizen opposition seemed to include "the refugee crisis; the Paris attacks; a football friendly involving Germany canceled due to a terror scare; scandals at the German football federation and FIFA; and the recent Russian doping scandal.