Today’s sentence about Boston’s Olympic bid
Boston’s 2024 Olympics bid is a fast-moving, complicated story. With this feature, we tell you in one sentence what you need to know each day.
June 24
Boston 2024 CEO Rich Davey said Tuesday on the WBZ program Nightside that he would vote yes on a ballot question preventing state money from funding a Boston Olympics, as proposed by Evan Falchuk.
June 23
Opposition group No Boston Olympics released some of its own financial information, saying it raised about $14,500 in the first quarter of 2015.
June 22
According to MassLive, Boston 2024 has sited a venue out west—canoe slalom on the Deerfield River.
June 18
The recent chain of venue change news stopped (for one day, at least) as Boston 2024 announced the basketball finals and gymnastics events would be held at TD Garden, where they were originally planned.
June 17
The new venue parade marches on, with Quincy the potential host for beach volleyball.
June 16
Boston 2024 Chairman Steve Pagliuca said at BostInno’s State of Innovation event that the group’s new bidding plans, to be released later this month, will be subject to change, but will provide “the most specific budget in the shortest period of time’’ in Olympics history.
June 15
Now it’s off to Billerica, as Boston 2024 confirms a Boston magazine report that it would hold shooting events in the northern suburb.
June 12
Olympic economist and critic Andrew Zimbalist wrote a letter to The Boston Globe maintaining that Boston 2024 tried to recruit him, a claim Boston 2024 denied earlier this week.
June 11
Another new venue announcement: Boston 2024 wants athletes to play tennis at Harambee Park in Dorchester, a change from the previous plan to hold tennis events at Harvard.
June 10
The latest Olympics poll isn’t pretty for the bidding group, with only 39 percent of voters polled statewide saying they support the idea.
June 9
A report suggests that the state establish a commission to coordinate Olympic planning, with an eye on the long term.
June 8
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh answered a question his office had dodged for months, when he told Boston Public Radio that he never fully read the Boston 2024 bid, which he signed before it was submitted to the United States Olympic Committee last year.
June 5
Boston 2024 made its first quarterly financial disclosure and now we know who’s donated what to the group.
June 4
Boston 2024 has announced its first new venue as it prepares to unveil fresh bid plans—sailing events would be held out of New Bedford.
June 3
Boston 2024 had itself a little Twitter mishap.
June 2
Circle the last week of June as an important one for Boston 2024: that’s the self-imposed deadline to release new plans to the public, and the timeframe for the next United States Olympic Committee quarterly board meeting.
June 1
The state finally got around to hiring a consultancy to deliver a study of the bid, due in mid-August.
Boston’s Olympic bid: The players
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