Boston gets 2024 U.S. Summer Olympic bid

You could always just get the IMF and UN to hold a conference, those guys go through hookers and blow fastr than Michael Ray Richardson

 

They just spent US$2B for the Pan-Am Games. They have many of the facilities needed in place. Where would an Olympic stadium go? Maybe the Jays can move there afterward, as SkyDome would be 35 or so by that point.

 

Hold it in Bristol

 

Toronto doesn't need an Olympics. The Pan Ams might have gone off without a hitch and proven to be more popular than many skeptics - like me - said they would but it was also a massive financial fuckup and the Olympics would be much, much more expensive for a city that has far more pressing issues.

 

But the party Huggy.

 

By 2030, an Olympics we be cancelled.

 

Bring Your Own Billion

 

You already have free healthcare, what the hell are you worried about?

 

Fair point. We can afford to host every Olympics - winter and summer - from here to the end of time.

 

Vancouver was a blast. I enjoyed being around it but not worth the money.

The city took a bath on the Olympic Village Condos they were going to sell to cover some of the costs.

 

I know many people who volunteered at the Pan Ams or checked out some of the events and loved it but I suspect when the bills start to come in and they take a much closer look at what an Olympics here would really cost - much, much more than whatever is initially budgeted - the appeal might wear off. Oh yeah, and the Bread not Circuses crowd - who helped derail the last bid - will be out in full force too.

 

Winter Olys to Beijing. Color me bored.