Boston gets 2024 U.S. Summer Olympic bid

Having experienced all three, I'd take a Dallas August over Beijing or Tokyo.

Philly would be as big a transportation nightmare as Boston. And the level of corruption would make a FIFA board member blush.

 

So glad this isn't happening, and for so many reasons.

This really was the original Boston 2024 chairman's wet dream, little more. His company would've cleaned up building half the venues.

The idea was good on multiple levels, actually, and the civic exercise of discussing everything was much needed. The city needed to reassess its priorities. But the corruption potential and ineptitude involved were off the charts.

 

Qatar and Yemen back in the running, right?

 

"A ho in every bed and a line on every coffee table." That's a campaign slogan we can all get behind!

(Seriously, though, agree with you 100% Would hate it if my locale was gunning for the olympics.)

 

A Dallas Olympics would have to take place in September or October when the weather cools off. Jerry Jones ain't fronting no Games.

 

It's usually mid-October before the weather cools off.

 

It's a cinch bet there will be no US Summer Olympics in my lifetime. If the IOC wants an Olympics made for US TV, it can choose Toronto. All the advantages of the Eastern time zone without us pain in the ass Americans to deal with.

 

And, they went so well for Montreal, that Toronto would be all for it...

 

There is a bit of a push for the Olympics in Toronto now that the Pan Am games has wrapped up. I can't see it happening for much the same reasons people farted at it in Boston.

 

There'd be no reason to think that a North Texas Olympics in September would be appreciably hotter than Atlanta was in '96. But I don't think a summer games in the U.S. will happen for a long, long time -- if ever -- for the simple reason that the IOC can't stomach the kind of Olympics a U.S. city would put on. Prince Samaranch and his court were put off by the commercialism of the Atlanta games, but that commercialism was what made that event politically possible. Cities/regions across the country simply aren't up to putting on -- out of pocket -- the kind of party the IOC overlords demand.

 

I thought Peter Ueberroth and Los Angeles were supposed to make commercialism fashionable for the Olympics.

 

The Olympics were plenty commercial in Sydney, the last one I attended. The IOC's objections to Atlanta was all the commercialism that wasn't under their control. Ueberroth and LA had unprecedented freedom to run the Games as they chose as they were the only bidder for the 1984 Games.