USOC picking 2024 Summer Oly US Bid City. Who you got? I'll take Washington DC

Detroit. Seriously.

London 2012 proved that you can regenerate an urban area, create jobs, build a 21st century infrastructure, cheap public housing and a better environment and still make a profit ($80 million according to the latest independent audit).

L.A. already has >95% of the venues and infrastructure bulit, in use today, and paid for. The lightrail/subway to UCLA is under-construction, and 80,000 seat soccer/football stadium at Hollywood Park next to LAX will be up by 2016 for the Rams. FIFA has already shown favor for the finale at Hollywood Park for the next Women's World Cup and Men's World Cup. Plus, the dirty old men of the IOC and FIFA love the nasty things they can pay for only in L.A.

WDC has Congress wrote:

Congress will pay 100% of the tab. No local tax monies or corporate funds needed to build out 4 dozen world class venues, training facilities, apartments, and subway. WDC has one million of the world's best trained special police parachute/scuba commandos on the payroll already. Plus three huge airports. 2024 Washington DC Summer Olympic Games ftw!

That'll never happen. Too many security issues.

As a native, I'd love to see it in Philadelphia someday so they could revitalize some parts of the city, but I know that the infrastructure and traffic systems could never support it.

I honestly think it'll be San Francisco. It's an iconic city that can handle mass transit. It's accessible via boat, plane, car, and is a major hub for American passenger trains. And, most importantly, it would look GREAT on TV with shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay, etc.

Detroit is not on the final list of cities. The four cities are DC, Boston, LA, and SF. I think its between SF and LA. Personally, I would like to see SF get it. They have most of the facilities in place. What I don\'t like is that they are proposing a $700M stadium south of Candlestick for opening and closing ceremonies and T&F that will be temporary and razed after the Olympics. Plus it not widely supported by the public, and the area has a bad track record of pulling off major infrastructure projects (Bay Bridge most recently). I think LA gets the nod, as they are pushing real hard for it. Put a new track in the Colosseum, and almost all the other facilities are in place.

LA, but would like to see SF picked.

Either Frisco or LA would be o.k.

Past LA Olys included events around the Frisco bay given the majority of Cal & Stanford students are from So Cal

It usually boils down to who has the least morals, lowest appeal, worst people, biggest losers, and stupidest sounding speech impediment, but are nonetheless willing to pay the largest bribes to the most IOC members. If that's the case, then Boston should win it, hands down.

Boston is for losers wrote:

It usually boils down to who has the least morals, lowest appeal, worst people, biggest losers, and stupidest sounding speech impediment, but are nonetheless willing to pay the largest bribes to the most IOC members. If that's the case, then Boston should win it, hands down.

Let me guess, you failed out of Emerson College?

There's overwhelming public sentiment against the Olympic bid in Boston. The bid was submitted without public notice or comment by a local committee of construction and real estate bigwigs and their lackeys. If it gets accepted, and it probably won't, there will be a referendum against it on the ballot that will win easily. The Olympics aren't coming to Boston.

Frisco or LA wrote:

Past LA Olys included events around the Frisco bay given the majority of Cal & Stanford students are from So Cal

Care to try that again in English ? WTF ?

I think DC has a good shot as long as we could knock down RFK and put the main stadium there. You'd also have Nats Park and the new DC United stadium in the vicinity. Additionally, the Verizon Center is there, UMD is close with numerous facilities, and FedEx field is close. 45 min north of town is Baltimore with a number of venues and UVA/Richmond are only 2hrs south.

As mentioned above, DC has two very large airports and one smaller airport, along with a pretty good public transit that is way better than LA's.

DC's biggest negative is Congress. Not a single member wants it in DC when they could spend the money in their home district.