Carlos Padilla, President of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), revealed during the organisation's General Assembly today that he hoped to hold talks with United States Olympic Committee (USOC) officials early next month.

The idea of a joint bid had originally been mooted last year when the USOC began seeking expressions of interest for a 2024 Olympic bid.

But it was ruled out because at the time the Olympic Charter did not allow for joint bids for the Summer Games.

That rule has now been scrapped with the adoption of Agenda 2020 at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Monte Carlo last week.
 
"With these modifications we now see a joint bid between the cities of Tijuana and San Diego as a feasible project," said Padilla at the General Assembly in Mexico City. 

The two cities, which share a 15 mile border, are closely linked economically.

San Diego–Tijuana is an international metropolitan conurbation, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

The population of nearly five million makes it the largest bi-national conurbation shared between the United States and Mexico and the fourth largest in the world.

Californian city San Diego and Mexico's Tijuana share a 15-mile border and are closely linked economically ©Getty Images