US Olympic Committee Pulls Boston Bid for 2024 Olympic Games
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Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images(BOSTON) — The 2024 Olympics may still be hosted in America, but they aren’t going to be in Boston.
On Monday, the U.S. Olympic Committee pulled an offer for the 2024 Olympics to be hosted in Boston.
Many Boston residents were hesitant to support the bid from the start, a main reason for the committee’s decision.
“We have not been able to get a majority of the citizens of Boston to support hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,” said a statement from the USOC. “Therefore, the USOC does not think that the level of support enjoyed by Boston’s bid would allow it to prevail over great bids from Paris, Rome, Hamburg, Budapest or Toronto.”
In a statement, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said he was concerned how the high cost of the Olympics would affect the city.
“I strongly believe that bringing the Olympic Games back to the United States would be good for our country and would have brought long-term benefits to Boston,” said Walsh in a statement. “However, no benefit is so great that it is worth handing over the financial future of our City and our citizens were rightly hesitant to be supportive as a result.”
Hosting the Olympics in 2024 may be over for Boston, but what about 2028?
“I’m not really thinking about 2028 at this point,” said Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. “I’m more interested in taking some of the ideas out of the 2024 stuff.”
The last Summer Olympic Games hosted in the U.S. were nearly twenty years ago in Atlanta.
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