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As foreshadowed in this June 19 post, Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was dropped today by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Support for the games was lukewarm in Boston, and Mayor Martin J. Walsh said today that he could not commit the city to any financial exposure that may go along with the Olympics. But in Los Angeles, where the 1984 Olympics made money, Mayor Eric Garcetti is behind a push to bring the games back. The USOC is expected to look now at overtures from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington.
The June foreshadowing by LA-based Olympics journalist Alan Abrahamson at his 3 Wire Sports website said that Los Angeles would be back in the running. Over the weekend, he urged Boston to get out.
You have rightly earned the execution that common sense and political reality says you deserve on Monday….
The USOC has given Boston 2024 time to prove itself. Too much time, to be blunt. But now time is up.It’s thus time to accept the inevitable and look ahead to what’s next if the USOC has any hope for winning in 2024: Los Angeles.
In 1984, Los Angeles saved the Olympic movement. Now LA has to save the USOC.
And maybe win for 2024. Los Angeles is an Olympic city. It is America’s Olympic city.
3:15 p.m. update: Abrahamson posts his story, Ding, dong, the wicked Boston bid is dead.
Some tweets:
Mayor Garcetti on Boston pull-out: "I continue to believe that Los Angeles is the ideal Olympic city."
— Dakota Smith (@dakotacdsmith) July 27, 2015if that LA NFL stadium is really going up soon, then L.A. getting the 2024 Olympics is a no-brainer. Only U.S. city that can pull it off.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 27, 2015