Should Boston Think Differently About an Olympic Bid?

Like everything else in Boston, enthusiasm for the Olympic Games pretty much froze over this winter. The thought of inviting tens of thousands of tourists to the city when it was buried under more than 100 inches of snow must’ve unnerved even the most ardent fan of the Games—even for a Summer Games. Public support for a Boston Olympics threatened to plunge to below-freezing levels. So the group planning Boston 2024 put the bid on ice, with the hopes of returning to it later.

Now that all that snow is almost gone—so close!—Boston hearts have warmed to the idea of a Summer Olympics, a little. A poll conducted late in April found that 57 percent of voters within Boston support the Games, provided that no Massachusetts tax money be used for the construction of the venues or the operation of the Games. A big “if,” surely, but a road to securing support for 2024.