Boston Wins USOC Bid!!!

Totally shocked, out of all the 4 I thought it was a toss up with the exception of Boston, didn't think it would be selected at all. No way it wins an international bid.

What's the opening shot going to be? A St. Paddy's day parade?

SF with the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay would have been sick!!!!

Even DC with all the mare monuments!

Congrats to Boston.

I haven't seen the video. What video are you talking about?

Without thinking about it too much I figured Boston was going to finish last. However, Boston has a ton of colleges so maybe a bunch of new facilities won't have to be built.

wejo wrote:

Congrats to Boston.

I haven't seen the video. What video are you talking about?

Rome is submitting a bid. Germany may also submit.

The summer games will go to Europe. Boston won't get them.

Not coming back to U.S. wrote:

Rome is submitting a bid. Germany may also submit.

The summer games will go to Europe. Boston won't get them.

The smart money says otherwise.

I hope Boston doesn't win. They Olympics have been shown time and again to cost host cities and nations money.

Let some other country host. No need to host it here in the U.S.

tenant wrote:

I hope Boston doesn't win. They Olympics have been shown time and again to cost host cities and nations money.

LA84 and Atlanta 96 both turned profits.

Happy to see Boston get the USOC bid for 2024 which many experts predict will be the last Olympics due to the advancement of global telecommunications and electonics technology.

Didn't see it wrote:

Totally shocked, out of all the 4 I thought it was a toss up with the exception of Boston, didn't think it would be selected at all. No way it wins an international bid.

What's the opening shot going to be? A St. Paddy's day parade?

SF with the Golden Gate Bridge and the bay would have been sick!!!!

Even DC with all the mare monuments!

Because there's nothing else in Boston? WTF? Learn something, bub.

As a SF Bay Area resident I say .... Yahoo for Boston! Better you than us.

QUOTE: The smart money says otherwise.

Yup, the smart money says it will go to a country that hasn't had an Olympics yet, or in more years the the U.S.

Remember, the Olympics are an international event, not a U.S. event.

Boston people don't want it either!

From ESPN

Boston Olympics a terrible idea

U.S. bid city for '24 doesn't need Games and -- more importantly -- can't afford them

http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/12139219/boston-olympics-bad-idea-2024

boston resident wrote:

Boston people don't want it either!

exactly right, should have given the bid to somewhere that wants and may benefit...

pretty much covers what most of us m*ssholes o think about the idea.

we do have a great downhill marathon course, tho.

DETROIT!

If it's anything like the big dig the Olympic venues will be 9 years late, cost double the original estimate, result in dozens of criminal arrests and do the complete opposite of what they were designed to do.

boston cannot handle it. I hope it donesn't come ehre

Like a lot of folks in Mass, I don't want the Olympics here. The state can't afford to remove the frickin' Concord Rotary, so it's going to pay the freight

for the infrastructure improvements needed for the Olympics? F that.

More big dig-like corruption.

The IOC can look for its bribes elsewhere.

Most sports have some sort of World Championships anyway.

This cheap bid with plans to use extant college facilities and to convert the Olympic Stadium into a smaller soccer stadium is DOA with respect to the IOC, which wants big budget, boffo affairs that seem permanent even if they'll shut down permanently the day after the games. Barcelona (already in 1997 when I visited) and Athens (now) are among those stadiums overrun with weeds in their perimeter. The IOC was very unhappy that Atlanta's stadium was converted to baseball and now defunct. It is hard enough for the U.S. to bid against international antipathy from the Bush years, but we cannot compete with countries that offer massive public subsidies, especially the dictatorships and oligarchies. At least Boston has pretty decent public transportation. San Francisco would have had a much better shot because the IOC voters would like to go there.