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The official thread of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Boston

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unofan said:
No way it's a winter Olympic athlete. All the more so sincethe 1980 hockey team lit the flame in Salt Lake.

Bird is a possibility.
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Who is the youngest person to light the flame? By 2024 Raisman will long be retired from competitive gymnastics so she could be picked. He has no Olympic history, but Carlton Fisk would be a solid choice. Problem is many of the sports stars in the area are either winter stars or not from the area.
 
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A little sad to see Chicago not be included again, but I'm also glad after the debacle that Chicago 2016 was.

If it's true that they want to utilize the college dorms as athlete housing for the Boston bid and there is very little new infrastructure, it sounds like they're scaling back expenses to limit costs. About freaking time. There is no reason for bankrupting cities just for the "honor" of hosting the games. Glad the photos of empty buildings from Greece and Beijing are swaying cities from these albatross projects.
 
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aparch said:
A little sad to see Chicago not be included again, but I'm also glad after the debacle that Chicago 2016 was.

If it's true that they want to utilize the college dorms as athlete housing for the Boston bid and there is very little new infrastructure, it sounds like they're scaling back expenses to limit costs. About freaking time. There is no reason for bankrupting cities just for the "honor" of hosting the games. Glad the photos of empty buildings from Greece and Beijing are swaying cities from these albatross projects.
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The average cost of hosting the Summer Olympics is $19Billion. With most infrastructure already in place (and public transportation financing already approved) the costs associated with the Games would be cut back drastically. I'm sure that will be a major drawback to the IOC, who prefers to "award" the Games to a city so their friends can reap billions in construction contracts.
 
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aparch said:
There is no reason for bankrupting cities just for the "honor" of hosting the games. Glad the photos of empty buildings from Greece and Beijing are swaying cities from these albatross projects.
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It's been apparent for a long time that the Olympics is an economic dumpster fire. In the future it will have to be decided 100% by bribery, rather than the 95% it's been since at least Salt Lake City.

Good to see the death of the Traditional Model:

1. Pol backs effort "for the pride of our fair city."

2. Idiots re-elect pol on fairy dust and champagne dreams.

3. Pol awards contracts to pals.

4. Wildly popular pol leaves office.

5. Pals have massive overruns.

6. Event fails to produce projected revenue.

7. City residents pay debt service until the end of time.

Also works great for publicly-financed stadiums.

In short, it couldn't happen to a nicer city.
 
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Kepler said:
Buckner.
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How about the anti-Buckner, Dave Roberts? They could make it very dramatic. Roberts could be dashing with the torch down a runway and slide headfirst toward a cauldron, igniting the flame. And we could exhibit our charming provincialism by sneering at the many foreign visitors who don’t know who Dave Roberts is and the US visitors who don’t care about Dave Roberts.

USA Today article said:
Storrow Drive is the single most terrifying road in North America. I will not be debated on this.
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He left out the most charming aspect of Storrow Drive, the annual pictures of a student (usually BU, Scarlet, was it ever you?) sitting forlornly next to his/her U-Haul which is wedged under one of the overpasses. Imagine what it could do to a TV truck!
 
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I'm warming up to it. Still not sure how they get the main stadium built, but beyond that existing facilities ought to do the trick. You'd have to get Harvard to do the aquatics center since 1) they actually care about things like aquatics, 2) they have more money than God, and 3) unlike the rest of the city they have the land to build this on.

Besides, anything that gets the city/state to improve the Gawdawful T (subway system) works for me. I'd hate to see an event delayed because the athletes were stuck in the Red Line tunnel do to "traffic up ahead" or "switching problems" or other such nonsense. :D

So Go USA! With Boston's ability to win championship, I expect a new record for Gold Medals out of team USA in 2024. :)
 
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Rover said:
Besides, anything that gets the city/state to improve the Gawdawful T (subway system) works for me. I'd hate to see an event delayed because the athletes were stuck in the Red Line tunnel do to "traffic up ahead" or "switching problems" or other such nonsense. :D
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I was under the impression the money for the T had already been approved.
 
ericredaxe said:
What events would Agganis be suitable for? Maybe weightlifting and things like that?
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Team Handball, secondary basketball venue, weightlifting, table tennis, badminton, boxing, volleyball, fencing, the martial arts events (judo etc.), wrestling...
 
Jimjamesak said:
Team Handball, secondary basketball venue, weightlifting, table tennis, badminton, boxing, volleyball, fencing, the martial arts events (judo etc.), wrestling...
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I know nothing about capacity requirements... Maybe capacity is big enough for some of those... My initial thought is that it would be too small, but could be suitable for some of those events....
 
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ericredaxe said:
What events would Agganis be suitable for? Maybe weightlifting and things like that?
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A few uninteresting events that nobody here cares about. The crowd can then be filled with Eurotrash who can't speak English...just like a BU hockey game. :D
 
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