Boston’s Olympic hopes face a big test today
They could drop the Boston bid, but probably won’t.
A day after Boston2024 unveiled their newest plans for a Boston Olympics, the United States Olympic Committee will spend about two-and-a-half hours discussing the potential host city at their quarterly meeting in California today.
There’s a chance they could decide to abandon Boston as a host city. But that’s not likely. A conference call with reporters at 6:30 p.m. Boston time will shed some more light on what the stateside Olympic governing body is thinking.
“We actually think the chances of the USOC pulling the bid are very low,’’ Chris Dempsey of No Boston Olympics, a group opposed to Boston’s Olympic bid, said earlier this week. “We expect that the USOC is going to stick with Boston.’’
The USOC must decide by September what U.S. city they’ll offer up for the 2024 Olympic games. The International Olympic Committee would make their choice in 2017.
Yesterday, the Boston2024 team unveiled their newest plans, projecting a $210 million surplus on the planned $4.6 billion Games.
Along with the Boston2024 leaders, Mayor Marty Walsh quietly joined the group in Redwood, California, according to The Boston Globe.
USOC members have reportedly been worried about the low support locally for a Boston Olympics. Just 49 percent of Massachusetts residents want to see the Olympics in Boston. Slightly more — 51 percent — would be in favor of an Olympics spread around the state.
Here’s what Boston2024 wants the city to look like before, during and after the Summer Olympics:
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