The Boston Globe reports today that a private group called the Boston Olympic Exploratory Committee is looking to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to the city.
In this Wednesday, June, 8, 2011 file photo Sebastian Coe Chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic games hold up the relay torch as it is unveiled in St Pancras Station below the Olympic rings in central London.
The Boston Globe reports today that a private group called the Boston Olympic Exploratory Committee is looking to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to the city. The group is hoping to get Mayor Thomas Menino's approval to reach out to local businesses for support.
Committee chairman Eric Reddy of West Boylston told the Globe that the group had been working behind the scenes for several months, reserving a domain name (http://www.boston-2024.org) and setting up social media accounts.
The United States Olympic Committee solicited bids from Boston and 34 other municipalities in a letter in mid-February, the Globe reported. The letter informed hopefuls that the 2024 host city would need "a reliable public transit system, an Olympic village that can accommodate 16,500 athletes, technical support for more than 15,000 media members, and 45,000 hotel rooms to house visitors from around the world." There are only about 30,000 hotel rooms in all of Greater Boston, according to the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The United States has not hosted a Summer Olympics since the Atlanta Games in 1996. The International Olympic Committee is set to choose the host city for the 2020 Games in September, with Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid as the three finalists.
