Boston is exploring bid for 2024 Olympics

(The Boston Globe, November 10, 2013)

An elite group including some of the area’s most powerful business leaders, developers, and construction experts is quietly exploring the prospect of bringing the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to Boston. The group also has recruited former governor Mitt Romney, who ran the 2002 Salt Lake City winter Games, as a key adviser. “It’s a huge-impact event,” he said. “It’s like 20 Super Bowls all at once. The transportation has to be completely redone. The fund-raising and marketing of the Games is extensive. It’s an amazing undertaking.” Though Boston is packed with athletic venues that could potentially host events, the city lacks several major components necessary to host a Summer Olympics, such as a venue suitable for hosting the opening and closing of the Games and the track and field events.