Boston makes US short list for 2024 Olympics

[unhappycamper]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/13/boston-makes-short-list-for-summer-olympics/K5EyOKkSWisfXySpNujZWI/story.html

Boston makes US short list for 2024 Olympics
By Mark Arsenault
| Globe Staff June 13, 2014

Boston’s improbable dream — to become host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics — is suddenly a bit more real.

The city has made the United States Olympic Committee’s “short list” of potential 2024 host candidates, the committee confirmed Friday. Los Angeles, the host of the successful 1984 Summer Olympics; San Francisco; and Washington, D.C., are also on the list.

Making the short list is only a baby step in an arduous process, but it keeps alive the possibility of a Boston Olympics.
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City and state political leaders generally reacted positively to the committee’s vote of confidence, without committing themselves to supporting a full-blown Olympic bid. Hosting the Olympics could cost billions of dollars for infrastructure that must be designed to have a use after the Games.

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To quote Nancy Raygun: Just say no.

[Demeter]

1. And where would they stage this? The Berkshires?

Such madness...

[Fearless]

3. My thoughts exactly

There isn't exactly free space in Boston. While the explosion of cultural diversity would be compelling the economic and personal impact would be too difficult to overcome.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Just find a permanent home for the Olympics and be done with it.

[4Q2u2]

4. Something Fishy going on

Head of the Olympic Bid Committee is Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish.

http://wgbhnews.org/post/boston-olympic-committee-leader-john-fish-it-can-work-out-well-everybody

http://www.wbur.org/2014/06/27/john-fish-boston-olympics

Now that Menino is out, he has to find new ways of lining his pockets.

[merrily]

5. I live in "Boston Proper." Is it awful to say that I REALLY don't want the Olympics in Boston?

Another, less congested part of Massachusetts, sure. But not Boston.

[unhappycamper]

6. I agree that it's insane to try to stuff an Olypics venue inside this state. n/t

[merrily]

7. There must be someplace in Massachusetts where an Olympics venue might work?

I just don't think the City of Boston is one of those places. Not the Cape, either. The environment there is too fragile, I think.