Posted on 07/27/2015 11:57:18 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Did they not like the Boston prostitutes?
LA and San Francisco submitted bids but the USOC settled on Boston. It they have dropped out then it could be that those two will get a second chance.
Build winter facilities in Switzerland and have Greece hold the summer games facilities.
Putin will probably wind up buying it for Moscow.
Thank goodness! Also, Walsh is a dolt.
Goes to show that the Olympics is in bigtime decline.
Mayor Walsh said that unless the contract protected the tax payers, he was going to take the city out of the running (AM radio news spot). Good on you, Marty.
Last week a Boston TV station featured 30 minutes of Olympic boosterism highlighting all the new tennis courts that will be built in the inner city.
The idea was insane to begin with. I can only imagine how horrendous traffic would have been.
I have no idea why anybody would want the Olympics in their city. What a major disruption and pain in the neck.
It would have pretty much shut the city of Boston down. They don't have the infrastructure to handle that and there was no way they would get it built in time.
MA gets plenty of summer tourists. I'm missing something, I just don't see the point of the region wanting the hassle of the Olympics.
The corrupt Olympic Committee must have read Howie’s material and figured they can run their scams in L.A. much more easily!
Plus a number of buildings, many of which are historic, would be taken and replaced.
Boston did the right thing. The mayor sure sounded like a tea party person in his decision.
“They don’t have the infrastructure to handle that and there was no way they would get it built in time.”
Give them a blank check and they’ll promise to get it done on time.
Boston Strong! I hope the Olympics never come to the US again. Let countries run by despots or have self-esteem problems throw tens of billions of dollars down the IOC sewer.
"In 1998, it was uncovered that several IOC members had taken bribes from members of the Salt Lake City bid committee for the hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics. The IOC pursued an investigation which led to the resignation of four members and expulsion of six others. The scandal set off further reforms that changed the way host cities were selected, to avoid similar cases in the future.
A BBC documentary entitled Panorama: Buying the Games, aired in August 2004, investigated the taking of bribes in the bidding process for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[80] The documentary claimed it was possible to bribe IOC members into voting for a particular candidate city. After being narrowly defeated in their bid for the 2012 Summer Games,[81] Parisian Mayor Bertrand Delanoë specifically accused the British prime minister Tony Blair and the London Bid Committee (headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe) of breaking the bid rules. He cited French president Jacques Chirac as a witness; Chirac gave guarded interviews regarding his involvement.[82] The allegation was never fully explored. The Turin bid for the 2006 Winter Olympics was also shrouded in controversy. A prominent IOC member, Marc Hodler, strongly connected with the rival bid of Sion, Switzerland, alleged bribery of IOC officials by members of the Turin Organizing Committee. These accusations led to a wide-ranging investigation. The allegations also served to sour many IOC members against Sion's bid and potentially helped Turin to capture the host city nomination.
In July 2012, The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called the continued refusal by the International Olympic Committee to hold a moment of silence at the opening ceremony for the eleven Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, "a continuing stubborn insensitivity and callousness to the memory of the murdered Israeli athletes."
Source: Wikipedia
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I guess you've never heard of "The Big Dig".
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