Boston gets 2024 U.S. Summer Olympic bid

The other question: who will play the Opening Ceremony? Aerosmith will be rather elderly by then. Perhaps Marky Mark? The Dropkick Murphys?

 

Neal Diamond might be able to hang around to 2024 to belt one out

 

Don't count your chickens, Boston. You're probably no better than third favorite right now.

 

That high? You may be overestimating their chances.
The IOC really doesn't like being away from Europe for too long and after last year's winter games we get Brazil in '16, Korea in '18, Japan in '20 and either China or (snicker) Kazakhstan in '22. Along with the already announced bid from Rome, you could see bids from Paris, Hamburg, St. Petersburgh, Budapest and Madrid.

 

Comcast-NBC Universal has some influence in this matter, and its preference for a US site (or at least a site allowing for live prime time to most of the US, such as Rio) is obvious. St. Petersburg, Madrid and Budapest are located in countries which are currently broke. Rome and Paris would be favorites. I live in Boston, and I'd rather spend three weeks of leisure time in either of those cities than here. Dunno about Hamburg.

 

Mattapan is lovely in the summer

 

If Russell is still alive and ambulatory, that would bring the house down.

The US will never get another Summer Games in the next 50 years anyway, so it's all moot.

 

Why?

 

1. General anti-American sentiment around the rest of the world.
2. The perceptions among IOC members that the U.S. was heavily overrepresented in site selection in the period 1980-2002.
3. Most important, disinterest among intelligent U.S. cities not wishing to waste tens of billions of bucks on a 3-week production.

 

Don't piss on Micheal Gee's Multi billion dollar party.

 

Also 4. The IOC was upset that Atlanta funded everything through corporate sponsorship and no US games could be funded any other way due to American's allergies to taxation.

 

Well, that plays into 3).