US Olympic Committee vote Boston
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Boston is the US nominated City for the 2024 Olympic Games beating LA in the vote.
Immediately Boston is a huge favourite to host in 2024.
Immediately Boston is a huge favourite to host in 2024.
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There are lots of other potential candidates - who might appear more attractive as cities either due to the climate or their general appeal to IOC members who will have to spend two weeks there.
Rome
Brisbane
Paris
Durban
Organisers are proposing a "temporary" stadium: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/15/audacious-plan-backers-city-olympic-bid-want-build-temporary-seat-stadium-south-boston/U8nsaAiY4qUbQgEQJNP7tN/story.html?event=event25
US TV and corporate sponsors will favour Boston but I would still put Paris as the clear favourites.
Not really. NBC has already signed a binding contract with the IOC for broadcast rights through 2032. The host cities chosen during that time will have no impact on IOC revenue from NBC.
I agree with LostFool, although greater Boston is fairly populous, the city itself is fairly compact by American standards. A temporary stadium isn't going to help either. The main thing going for it, if past history of American bids are anything to by, is that it will be a financially sound and viable bid. But if Paris or Berlin put up strong bids then there will be a strong impetus to return the games to Europe, since it will be a dozen years since London, compared to eight for The Americas (Rio). The Americans would have the likely consolation of landing the winter games in 2026 since few western governments seem prepared to put up the financing for them (the US having the luxury of more corporate financing).
http://www.2024boston.org/
Berlin or Paris would be great hosts - and both very easy for me to get to my second Olympics.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/28/the-olympics-are-dead-why-should-anyone-want-be-a-host-city-anymore
Not really surprising to see Boston pulling out. It's possibly my favourite city in the US but I never thought it capable of hosting an Olympics and the organisers weren't able to get the locals on board - despite Boston being one of the most sports mad cities in the world.
It seems now that the only cities willing to host the Summer and Winter Olympics are those where the local population doesn't have a say in the matter.
5 confirmed bids are now taking place:
Paris, France
Rome, Italy
Hamburg, Germany
Budapest, Hungary
Los Angeles, America.
Paris hosted the games in 1900 and 1924.
Rome hosted the games in 1960.
Los Angeles hosted the games in 1932 and 1984.
The Olympic games were hosted in Germany in Berlin in 1936 and in Munich in 1972.
The games have been also been hosted in America in St. Louis in 1904, and in Atlanta in 1996.
I wonder if LA could become the USA's permanent Summer Olympic venue.
Since the last post on this thread Rome, Hamburg and Budapest have all pulled out of the bidding.
This just leaves Paris (France) and Los Angeles (America) as the only remaining contenders.
One wonders if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) need to rethink of how the bids for the Olympics are carried out in the future.
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