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Boston Presents Bid For 2024 Olympics In San Francisco
ResumeTuesday afternoon, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish and other members of the Boston 2024 executive bid committee made a pitch for why Boston should host the 2024 Olympics. They spoke to the U.S. Olympic Committee in California.
The committee could decide Tuesday whether Boston — or any U.S. city — should compete to host the summer games, or they could wait until the formal deadline on January 8.
Domestically, Boston is competing with other three other potential hosts: Los Angeles, San Francisco and D.C.
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Curt Nickisch, business and technology reporter for WBUR. He tweets @CurtNickisch.
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WBUR: U.S. Olympic Committee To Hear Boston 2024 Bid
- "Picture the Olympic flame at night, reflecting off Boston Harbor. Picture rowers slicing up the Charles River, the sun warming the russet roofs of Harvard behind them."
The Boston Globe: Boston’s Olympic Bid Must Clear Hurdle Today
- "The U.S. Olympic Committee will decide Tuesday whether to brush off recent rejections and again enter a US city — Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Washington — in the chase for the 2024 Summer Games. If it does, the bid city will face stiff competition from a newly crowded international field that could include three major European capitals."
This segment aired on December 16, 2014.