Culture
How Boston Won the U.S. Bid for the 2024 Olympic Games
The city has colleges as infrastructure and hosts a huge sporting event every year. The Big Dig may have even worked in its favor.
Early Thursday evening, the U.S. Olympic Committee came to a decision that may have sealed Boston's fate. The city will be the U.S. bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, beating out San Francisco, the District of Columbia, and two-time Olympic host city Los Angeles for the honor.
Coming as it will on the heels of a 2022 Winter Games that will take place in either Beijing in China or Almaty in Kazakhstan, the 2024 Summer Games could very well land in the U.S. The 2022 winter mega-event is bound to attract controversy, given that it will be hosted by an authoritarian regime; what better way to rebound than by having the Summer Games in Boston, the birthplace of democracy?